New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Japan Declared
Ready to Give
Up Conquests
DR.. Iyenaga Says Nation
Will Bow to Decisions
of the Peace Congress
China's Policy Criticised
Reputation of the Treaty of
1915 Is Compared TO Ger
many's S'Scrap of Paper

In the opinion of DR.. 7. Iyenga, Japan
Is prepared--if the peace congress sc
wills-to surrender to the league of
nations with good grace the German
possessions In the South Seas con-
quered by Japan. Dr.. lyenga, who, as
director of the East and West News
Bureau, is spokesman for his country
in America, expressed this opinion yes
terday at the Pan-Pacifc forum con-
Quoted by the Japan Society at the
Bankers Club.
Japan is silent; she has done her
part in the war to the best of her
ability; she feels assured that her task,
Loyalty and faithfully performed, will
receive due recognition by her allies
said Dr. Iyenga GAS she has made
sacrifices during the war, so she is
ready to make more sacrifices for har-
mony among the powers and for reali-
cation of the league of nations.
Japan has kept every international
pledge she has made We are assured
Uehida) that Japan Will restore Kiao-
chow to China. This, however, ! am
confident she will do of her own ac-
cord, not because Of any pressure eX
erted from the outside, least of all by
China. The German tease of the ter
ritory would have run for seventy-odd
years more had not the Japanese forces,
in conjunction with British troops,
wrested it from Germany. 1t would
therefore, be but graceful act on
Japan's part if she restored it to China
at the conclusion Of peace.
"Viscount Uehida has declared that
Japan's foreign policy is to be fair
and clean for all the world. Especially
une friendship and perfect willingness
to lend helping hand in the unfold
ing of her great future. 1t is, then,
but mote that this sincerity and neigh
borliness should be reciprocated"
Chinese diplomacy is not fancied by
Dr.. Iycnaga, Judging by some of his
remarks yesterday. The purpose of the
forum was TO discuss present limita-
lions of tho cable and wireless service
across the Pacific.
D. Iyonaga mentioned the Complaints
uttered in the United States Senate
about being kept in the dark about
the peace proceedings. Glow much
more will the Japanese people feel so p
their voice comes across the Pacific
The only noise heard nowadays is that
made by China. Now 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
captivatc the world by her tongue and
pen.
: at. is reported that DR.. Wellington
Koo has asserted at the peace congress
that the Chna-Japan treay of 1915 is
Migratory for, he argues, 1t was CON
cluded under duress.
"1s China going to repeat the story
of Germany in tearing up treaties as
scraps of paper'?"
George w. Clapperton. vice president
and traffic manager of the Commercial
Pacific Gable Company declared cable
facilities to and from the Orient arc
ample fer expeditions handling of all
business under normal conditions. Roy
w. Howard, head of The United Press,
said cable facilities to the Far East
were inadequate. w. w. Davies, di-
rector of publicity in the United States
for the Australian government; DR.
jeremiah jerks and other speakers OK
pressed the same thought and recon-
mended lower press rate to the Far
East as one means of developing bet
ter relations between this continent
and the other side of the Pacific.