The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
CHINESE ENVOYFO
CONFERENCE HERE
Wang Cheng-Wai, Leader Of
Constitutional Party
Going to Paris.
FAvORS NATIONS LEAGUE
Has Great Confidence in Will
son, but Distrusts the
Japanese.
FAvORs NATIONS LEAGUE

Wang Cheng-wai, one Of the leaders
Of the Constitutional party in China.
who with five Of his countrymen ar
rived in New York yesterday and ex-
poets to sail for France April %. Is on
his way from one peace conference to
another.
The civil war which has rent China is
now in allegiance, and largely by the
efforts OF the American Minister. Mr..
Wang says. the Northern. or militaristic,
party and the Southern or Nationalist.
party are comforting At Shanghai under
the terms OF an armietic. Yet the
Southern party 10 sufficiently suspicious
OF the militarists 10 wish to have it's
own councillors at Paris to watch out
for flies in the ointment of the treaties,
and Mr.. Wang and his five companions
are some OF these councillors.
Mr.. Wang, a tall, well formed man
who doesn't look his 81 years, snatched
n few moments last evening from the
attentions the Chinese of New York
are showering upon him TO tell reporters
a few things about the way his country
feels on the League Of Nations.
He was educated In France and
speaks French but no English. so he
poured his remarks in soft, musical
Chinese into the ears Of an interpreter
who translated them.
Mr.. Wang said the Chinese had no IN
tention OF oomplicating the present
world tangle any further by asking for
any racial equality clauses. as the Japa-
nese are. Those matters. he said, were
local and would adjust themselves.
IT have faith" he said. that justice
will be done us. becauee President Will
son is behind the League OF Nations,
and II was your great President who
idealised the aims OF the allied nations.
am heart and soul for the League
OF Nations. In It's present form 1t may
need some notifications. but the prin-
in mind. 1t will be this that will cafe
guard the peace of the world"
Mr.. Wang was a student in Paris IN
1914 and made up his mind right away
after Germany invaded Belgium that
he wanted his own country to refuse
10 have any dealings with the Hohen-
zollerns, He gave up his studies and
went home at once, where by public
speeches and newspaper articles he put
the cause OF the Allies before his people
and was largely instrumental in in
ducing China to sever diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany.
said, has been 100000 laborers, and
so satisfactory was their work that
France wants 100000 more to do recon
struction service. There were also some
Chinese women who went there to dc
their part toward the comfort and mo-
rale Of our men"
OF Japan Mr. Wang expressed a pro-
found distrust. Japan, he said was
, openly furnishing arms and ammunition
10 the mlitaristic party in China and
In every way stirring UP trouble there
But militartm will be overcome In
China just as II has received It's death
war that has been raging In my country
is the natural aftermath OF the estab.
lisnment or the republic. but It viii,
soon be at an end. In the meantime
my party wishes TO know that the
| treaties being negotiated at Paris are
all right, and that no clauses are
! slipped in which might hereafter give
Japan, for example, an advantage over
China. We want no secret treaties"
Mr.. Wang went to Chinatown yesterday
| and will go again to-day to make q
speech. He will be entertained severa'
times by the Chinese students at Colum.
bia. and tomorrow will speak before
their social science club. Saturday he
will spend in Newark and Monday he
will take a trip to Washington, just
TO see the capital, for this Is his first
| visit TO America.
All the Chinese business men in New
| York united to meet Mr.. Wang at ths
| the Grand Central Terminal with auto.
mobiles decorated with the names oil
| their organizations. and there was a
great Chinese parade down to China.
town. with the guest as the chief fea-
ture. Chinese Boy Scouts and drafted
soldiers who fought In the American
| Army were there to greet him.