No amount of argument will cause the Chinese to modify their opinion that Shantung will remain occupied by the Japanese. They laugh bitter cachinnations of scorn at the suggestion that the Japanese will abide by that clause in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance stipulating that the integrity of China shall be preserved, and they regard anyone who might propound the theory as partially daft. The Chinese believe in the things that are, and build upon them their estimate of the things that are to be. They have seen the Japanese tell the world that they were fighting for the integrity of Korea and Manchuria—and have seen Korea transformed into a Japanese possession and Manchuria enter upon @ transformation which they are convinced will end in anything but their bene fit. And while they adhere stoutly to this opinion nothing short of Japan's departure from Shantung will satisfy them that Japan intends to keep to her word that the integrity "f China shall not
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