Japanese Assurance Given to the Council Regarding the Shantung Question

Title

Japanese Assurance Given to the Council Regarding the Shantung Question

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Unknown

Date

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Source

Robert and Sally Huxley

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museusm

Language

English

Text

Resume of assurances given by
Japan to the Council.
______________________

On the basis of Sir. M. Hankey's memorandum of June 5, it may be assumed that the assurances given by the Japanese to the Council were the following: That Japan will:-

Restore the Shantung Peninsula in full sovereignty;Use special police (along the railway) only to ensure security for traffic, the police to be Chinese with such Japanese instructors as the directors of the railway may select and to be appointed by the Chinese Government;Surrender all military control over the Peninsula, including the fifty-kilometer zone, withdrawing the troops as soon as practicable and not including the fortifications within the area of the “concession” to be granted to Japan at Tsingtao;Let the Chinese Government have with regard to the new railways whose building has been ceded to Japan the same position which it has in relation to other railways constructed for it by foreign capital;Refrain from so administering the concession given by China at Tsingtao as to exclude other foreign enterprises;Refrain from so administering the existing railway in such was as to discriminate “between the trade facilities of other nations”.

See Memo. Attached
and
Comments on same, seq.

Original Format

Letter

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/D60008F.pdf

Citation

Unknown, “Japanese Assurance Given to the Council Regarding the Shantung Question,” No date, R. Emmet Condon Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.