Shantung Is Chinese.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

"As for d'Annunzio--we would like to see a drive started to raise funds for sending him and his army to capture Shantung for the Chinese."

Such are the titillating, fantastic words that concluded your editorial of December 3 entitled "Italian Paradoxes." The trouble with that exotic, damaging wind up is that the conclusion has been grounded on a groundless minor premise which somehow seems to have crept into many a superficial, unhistorical mind. Despite mischievous Machiavellian (Japanese) misrepresentations and overbubbling Senatorial sentimentalism, the plain, broad historical fact remains that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty of Shantung is never in question. FREDERIC C. SZE IG. B.