The Truth about China and Japan

by B. L. Putnam Weale

Cornell University Library

Ithaca, New York

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CHARLES WILLIAM WASON

COLLECTION

CHINA AND THE CHINESE

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THE GIFT OF
CHARLES WILLIAM WASON
CLASS OF 1876
1918

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA AND JAPAN

BOOKS BY PUTNAM WEALE

Political

Manchu and Muscovite
The Re-Shaping of the Far East (2 volumes)
The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath
The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia
The Conflict of Colour
The Fight for the Republic in China
The Truth About China and Japan

Romantic

Indiscreet Letters from Peking
The Forbidden Boundary
The Human Cobweb
The Unknown God
The Romance of a Few Days
The Revolt
The Eternal Priestess
The Altar Fire

THE TRUTH ABOUT

CHINA AND JAPAN

 

BY
B. L. PUTNAM WEALE

 

 

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1919

Copyright, 1919,

By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

PREFACE

The present volume carries the writer's studies regarding the problem of the Far East one step further. It has been written primarily to allow the ordinary reader to see at a glance what the position really is to-day in Eastern Asia, and to explain precisely why there should be conflict between China and Japan.

The essential point—which the writer first insisted upon at great length in 'The Fight for the Republic in China'—is that Japan has a double policy, one policy for the East and another for the West; that she uses military power and secret loans to advance the first, and diplomacy and publicity the second; and that this intricate matter can be understood only by exploring the history of the remote past.

The writer's thanks are due to the publishers of the magazine Asia for permission to reprint these essays in book-form.

Peking, April, 1919.

CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
I.	General Introduction: The Early Relations between China and Japan	1
II.	The Outline of the Far East	52
III.	The Settlement of the Chinese Question	80
IV.	The Problem of Peking	103
V.	If Japan Refuses?	133

Appendix:

(A)	Text of the Lansing-Ishii Notes, 157.
(B)	Documents concerning Mutual Agreements between China and Japan relative to Joint Action against the Enemy, 159.
(C)	Japanese Secret Loans to China in 1918, 178.
(D)	The Secret Arms Contracts between China and Japan, 180.
(E)	The Shantung Railway Agreement of September 24, 1918, 184.
(F)	Kirin and Heilungchiang Mining and Forestry Agreement, 188.
(G)	Manifesto of the Korean People issued to the World on March 1, 1919, 191.
(H)	Articles from the Japanese Constitution Defining the Autocracy of the Japanese Government, 195.
(I)	The Manchurian and Mongolian (Secret) Railway Agreement, 196.
(J)	The Shantung Railway Extension Agreement, 201.
(K)	Alleged German-Japanese Draft Treaty, 206.
(L)	Text of Sino-Japanese Wireless Installation Agreement, 214.
(M)	Chinese Government Tables and Returns for the Year ending June 30, 1919, 227.
(N)	Official Returns of Chinese Government Railways, 242.

MAPS

	Facing page
Chinese Republic and Korea	156
Sketch Map showing the four Manchurian and Mongolian Railways Japan is acquiring to dominate Peking	184

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA AND JAPAN