Regarding the preparations to be made, Preliminary to laying our complaint before ihe League of Nations, the first point is that we should experience no difficulty in referring the question to the League, since our signing the Austrian Treaty has given us membership of that League.
Wo should now speedily form a special commission of persons well versed in the Shantung question and in international law, to study the problem carefully. Then we should engage. the most well-known international jurists of Great Britain, France, America and Belgium to discuss ti:? subject; after which we should put in an orderly form all the documents, treaties and agreements concerning the Shantung question, and frame our claim, based upon international equity and justice and also quoting precedents in international intercourse, for submission to the League of Nations, asking for a fair verdict.
On the other hand, "all illegal and aggressive actions of the Japanese since their occupation vf Tsingtao should be recorded in succinct form, backed by accounts of actual incidents, and sent as a report to the organs of public opinion in all the foreign countries for publication, thus exposing the Japanese insatiable ambition and aggressive designs in China to the whole world, the greater portion of which has Hitherto been misled by one-sided stories and by the reiterated declaration that Japan will retura Kiaochou made by Mr. Hara, the Japanese Foreign Minister.
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