Truth about China and Japan
Note.—Sections that follow are merely lists of the same materials with amounts and prices specified.
The contract of July, 1918, is a double order of the same military supplies. Thus in the Second Contract the main items specified are:
85,000 rifles
67 million rounds small-arms ammunition
198 machine-guns
95 million rounds machine-gun ammunition
162 mountain-guns
81,000 high explosive shells
16,200 time-fuse shells
72 field-guns
Etc. Etc.
From these figures it is plain that the Japanese military party deliberately and secretly supplied their Chinese tools with a carefully-drawn-up list of material sufficient to conduct a long civil war and to butcher whole provinces, the larger number of mountain-guns being specially provided for warfare in the provinces south and west of the Yangtsze.
The indictment against militarist Japan, then, not only is that she deliberately prevented China from participating actively in the war in Europe, but that she lent all possible aid to movements calculated to disrupt China.
If German officers are to be brought to trial for offences conducted during the war, the guilty Japanese officers ought to meet the same fate.
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THE SHANTUNG RAILWAY AGREEMENT OF SEPTEMBER 24, 1918
Communications between the Japanese Foreign Office and the Chinese Minister to Japan
The Shantung Railway Agreement of September 24, 1918, was signed by the Chinese Minister to Japan, but was not ratified by the Chinese Government. Japan advanced $10,000,000 on the strength of the agreement and the Japanese Minister to Peking
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