Word: kiaochow
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Many felt, as did the fiery William Jennings Bryan, that to annex foreign territory in the Far East would be a profitless burden and pose the threat of cheap labor to already disconted American workers. But in1897, Germany took over kiaochow and Theodore Roosevelt began to push the strategy finally adopted-- Philippine annexation-- to protect U.S. interests in the area...
Superior officers had by this time noted Samurai Araki's keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...
...Demands were made on China by Tapan on Jan. 18, 1915, were allegedly to secure: 1) China's recognition of arrangements made between Japan and Germany relative to German rights in Shantung and Kiaochow. 2) The consolidation of Japanese hegemony in Manchuria. 3) Control of China's iron output. 4) The military superiority of Japan. Subsequent events proved the above fears largely unfounded...
...Shantung the Ambassador says: "Japan promised China that she would withdraw her forces and return the Kiaochow territory to her: and she also offered to share with China, on an absolutely fair and equal footing in substance as well as in name, that section of the German railway which has come to her hands in consequence...
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