The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-04
JAPAN FOR
OPEN DOOR
Will Enter Conference Pledged
to President Wilson's
Policy.
IN ACCORD WITH ALLIES
ON QUESTION
Statement Made by Baron Ma
kino, Member Of Japan's Peace
Commission.


ter the peace conference pledged to
a policy OF peace and the "open door
I'M the far East, in the maintenance
Of which she will welcome the
cooperation of the Allies, Baron No
buaki Maxine, of the japanese peace
commission, declared on his arrival
here today with fellow delegates, at
tache- af4d secretaries on the way to
France.
His country's course in her foreign
relations, said the Baron, who is a
member Of the japanese House OF
Peers and the advisory council of
diplomatic affairs, will be sucn as to
insure the most effective partnership
with the associated powers in the
work of reconstruction. Having es-
tablished peace in the Orient by clear
ing Germany from her far Eastern
bases and keeping the seas open to
commerce, he added, Japan Is fully
in accord with the Allies for just
and lasting world peace.
Accompanying Baron Maxine on
his arrival on a special train, with an
1fTicial escort, provided by the State
Department, were Lieut.. Gen. Take
ii Nara and Vice Admiral lsamu
Takeshita, military and naval repre-
senttaives; Eigo Fukai, director OF the
Bank of Japan, and Kikusaburo Furui
and Matazokita, noted japanese nm
anciers, together with party of at
taches and secretaries numbering
twenty three.
Marquis Salonji, senior delegate,
will join the party in Paris, travel
ing by way Of the Sueza canal,Baron
Chinda, ambassador to England, is the
third peace convoy of a marshal rank.
Baron Maxine will go to Washing
ton to call on Viscount Ishii, the jap
anese ambassador and with his party
will sail January 4 on the Cunard
liner Carmania, spending few days
in London before going to Paris.
The Baron spoke enthusiastically OF
his trip across the continent, the first
since he journeyed to San Francisco
in the early seventies. on way home
after attending school in Philadel-
phia. At that time his faher,e Toshi-
michi Okoubo, was member of the
Iwakura mission, which visited this
country and England to announce the
restoration of the throne Of Japan and
the determination of the government
to pursue the policy of the open
door" in foreign intercourse. Baron
Makil asserted that everything 1
have seen and everything I have
heard from my countrymen since. I
arrived on your shores has tended to
indicate even closer and more sympa-
thetic relations for the future than
have prevailed in the past.
The peace commissioner expressed
regret over his inability to accept a
luncheon invitation of the New York
chamber of commerce, representing
business men of this city with which
our connections and interests are con-
tinually drawing closer" In the days
of readjustment, he said, I'VE will
welcome in the far East closer and
more intimate relations with the
leaders of industry, trade, and com
merce, who have perhaps done more
than armies or navies to win the
war. The far East offers a vast field
for the cooperation Of the forces OF
reconstruction and those forces must
necessarily be drawn from the ranks
of the men who compose the cham
bers of commerce throughout Europe
the United States, Japan and China.