The sun., 1919-02-02

are silent; no echo OF their voice comes
across the Pacific. 1t is, therefore. hard
TO gauge their feelings. The only noise
nowadays heard Is the noise made by
China. Now that the war Is over, CHINA,
which during the war was warned by her
allies for her failure to serve efficiently
the allied cause, seems to have started
on a venture to captivate the world by
her tongue and pen. Her delegates ana
agents in Paris, Washington and else
where are industriously engaged In set
ting I'D her claims. Were words without
the backing OF deeds sufficient to cap
ture the world, what cheap job IL
would be! 1t Is we'll to remember that
the words of President Wilson, eloquent
as they are. derive their driving torce
from the immortal deeds of 1OO,ooo.ooo
Americans who contributed to the win
ming Of the war.
Defends Treaty OF 1915.
at Is reported that DR.. wellington
koo has asserted at the Peace Congress
that the China-Japan Treaty OF 1915 Is
| nugatory, for, he argues, 1t was CON
cluded under duress. Does DR.. koo
mean to intimate that China is 80 weak,
so helpless that she could not help sign
ing the treaty under compulsion, and
that the treaty, which she. after elimi-
mating what she considered objection
able, namely, group V. has signed In
good faith. is to-day. after four years
OF operation, to be thrown into the waste
basket? SIS China going TO repeat the
story of Germany In tearing UP treaues
as scraps of paper? Is the interna-
| tional order. which is based upon the
| faithful fulflment of treaties entered
| into between nations to be upset by the
| vasaries and whms of the time serving
diplomats? I hope not. was aware
that Bolshevism is running riot in
Russia, but did not imagine that 1t
is spreading 80 fast and wide to other
portions of the globe.
| Japan is silent. She has done her
part in the war TO the hest OF her sbil-
| ity he-feels assured that her task. 10y
ally and faithfully performed. will re-
! ceive due recognition by her allies. AS
she has r1ssie sacrifices during the war
so she Is adv 10 make more sacrifices
for the causo-of harmony among the
Powers and for the realisation of the
| league Of nations 7 am disposed to think
that she might agree with good grace
to a compromise plan evolved by the
congress for the possession and ad
ministration OF the South Sea Islands
which she now occupies, II this is to b.
Tor the good OF all.
Expects Equal Treatment.
Japan halls the league Of nations. 70
1t stands upon the foundations Of Justice
equality and fraternity. AS Japan 4
ready to render justice to other nations
so she expects from them fair. Just ant
equal treatment.
Japan has kept every internationa
pledge she has made We are assure,
by her Foreign Minister that Japan vii
restore kiaochow to China, This, how
ever, I am confident she will do OF he
own accord-not because OF any pres
sure exerted from outside. least of all b.
China, which has neither shed a drop o
blood nor expended a cent for the re
duction of the German fortress. TIL
German lease of the territory woul
have run for seventy-odd years NOR
had not the Japanese forces in commune
ton with the British troops wrestcd
from Germany. It would, therefore b
none but a graceful act on Japan's par
! II she restored 1t TO China at the con
cluslon Of peace.
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