Word: shantung
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From an imperfect deluge of twisted information that has been showered upon the world, a few facts stand out backed with some evidence of authenticity. One is that a Peking-Shanghai train was derailed near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, and approximately 150 foreigners were captured by bandits. Another is that the Peking Government, while able to exert only a shadow of authority over the land, accepted the brigand's terms for the return of their captives. These terms include immunity from prosecution and incorporation in the Chinese National Army. Some of the victims are to be released...
...discarded for a comparatively feeble democratic government. They have recently been joined by the remnants of the army defeated by General Wu Pei-Fu. Bands of a hundred thousand strong and organized under a leader, Lao Yang-jen, became more daring as soon as the efficient Japanese withdrew from Shantung...
...past sins by an unselfishness that is so far in advance of European politics that it makes her appear out of step again. Not content with being one of the first to agree to the four-power treaty at the Washington conference, she has given back the province of Shantung-the "Alsace-Lorraine of the orient"-to China...
...have united in making her the "goat". Japan especially, up to the present time, has helped herself, excusing the action by saying that China would never have been able to make the most of her advantages and that they are better in competent hands. But now Japan has restored Shantung. If other nations will follow the "hands off policy" in dealing with China, that nation will have a better chance of working out her own destiny...
...international relations, viz., the modern student, for the students of China, women as well as men, are not only her hope for the future, they are power in the present time. This is clearly indicated by their instigation, organization and maintenance of the Japanese boycott when the negotiations over Shantung began between Japan and the weak officials of Peking. Although the students were denied the use of the mails and of the telegraph for their movement, by actual walking delegates they covered the country in a summer's recess and set up a tight boycott which cost Japanese merchants four...