Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1917 — China’s “Four Diamonds.” [ARTICLE]

China’s “Four Diamonds.”

There are ih China four powerful meh, known as the Four Diamonds, who are credited with being actively pro-Japanese, and at the head of the Chinese pro-Japanese political activities. These men are Tsao Ju Ling, former minister of foreign affairs ano former minister of communications; Chting Hsiang, former minister of justice and former minister to Japan from China, the first cabinet minister ever sent to Japan in a diplomatic capacity and the leading Japanese scholar of China; Lu Chung lu, former minister from China to Japan; and Wang I Tang, former minister of the interior. The Four Diamonds are generally regarded as the instruments with which Japan was working in this most ambitious plan to impress the will of Japan onChinaandcrea teasituation that would allow Japan to Intervene in China, with some show of reason other than apparent aggrandizement.— Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday Evening POSt. 4