Word: kiaochow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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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