If China had no good fortune with her Internal Peace Conference, she had even legs in the Conference at Versailles which terminated the great war. Lu Cheng-hsiang, C. T. Wang and Wellington Koo took with them when they left for Europe the hopes of a large section of the people that as a result of their efforts Shantung would be wholly returned to China to the discomfiture of Japan who claimed to be entitled to all Germany's rights in the province prior to her being ousted by the military action of the Allies in which Japan played a predominant part. On May 6 the Peking Government telegraphed to its delegates instructing them to demand the unconditional restoration of Kiaochou, or in the alternative that it should be administered by the Five Power Group with a view to its ultimate restoration. This was apparently consequent upon the report of Liang Chi-chao, in Paris, that Tsingtao would be directly transferred from Germany to Japan.
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