New-York tribune., 1919-08-19
Senators Told by Thomas F.
Millard That Advisers
to American Delegates
Expected Grave Results
Urges Pledge by Allies
Advocates Franco British
Guarantee to the u. S.
Against Secret Pacts

NAoHINGl lON, Aug. 1S.-ln the
most spectacIlas testimony yet taken
by the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, Thomas F. Millard, Far Eastern
expert, adviser to the Chinese govern
ment and author, to-day warned the
Senators that if the United States 'is
not at war with Japan over China with
in ten years. we will be skating over
such thin ice that we will wonder why
it does not break"
War over China, he said. will creep
upon us just as the war with Germany
crept up.
''ln Japan we have another Ger
many he declared. Are we going to
let this autocratic government get
beginning? Are we going to let them
arm 4o0,0O0,000 people aainst US?
Some of his points were:
When the issue over China finally
comes Britain and France will pull
out another set of secret agreements
such as they showed at the peace con-
ference, and the United States will
league of nations if there is league.
Urges Franco-British Guarantee
A clause should be put in the Franco
American treaty binding France and
Britain to support the Hay doctrine in
China. That is the only way the
United States can protect itself against
the triple agreement of Britain, France
and Japan dividing up Asia.
Unless some assurance is given China
which will satisfy her, we can look
for a terrific anti-foreign feeling,
which viii manifest itself in the murder
of Missionaries, done purposely to en-
brol US.
Shantung was one of the contribut-
ing causes of the European War. Brit
ain and Japan pushed Germany to one
side in making the alliance, which grew
out of Germany's seizure Of Shantung
There are twenty known regional
understanding" with regard to Asia
by the powers which may be recognized
by Article q of the league covenant.
Japan on two occasions prevented
China from entering the war on the
side of the Allies. France stipulated
in making the Shantung secret agree
ment that Japan must withdraw this
opposition.
China Counted on America
DR.. Reinsch, American Minister to
Picking, assured China she could count
on the diplomatic support of America
at the peace table if she would come
into the war, and on this assurance she
came in.
DR.. Rensch advised China to concen-
trate at Paris on Shantung, instead of
fighting for a general recognition of
Chlna's equal rights and disavowal
OF all agreements with regard to her.
so In losing on Shantung China lost all.
President Wilson was the onlv man
in Paris who did not think Japan's
threat to bolt the conference and re-
fuse to join the league was a pure
bluff.
China was ready to seize the Ger
man possessions in Shantung at the
outbreak of the war, but Japan rushed
troops in.
Japan has gone further than Ger
many dreamed, and is ready to stick
the bayonet in China's throat again.
Japan always promises not to inter
fere with sovereignty. She so promised
in Corea.
Neither President Wilson nor the
men who gave him oral promises at
Paris, nor the present Senate will in
terpret the treaty when it comes to the
test.
1t was the unanimous opinion of
American experts on Far Eastern af-
fairs, at Versailles, that war must re-
suit from the peace treaty provision
giving Japan control in Shantung, Mil
lard said
In their negotiations Millard said
the Chinese maintained "the greatest
intimacy" with the American delegates,
informing them of "every move"
Chinese ENJOYS Silenced
Chinese delegates told him it was
on the advice of the United States that
the Chinese did not raise questions of
extraterritoriality, future financial CO.
operation in China and abrogation of
the twenty or more regional under
standings" The American govern
ment was fully sympathetic" with
China's stand on these subjects, Mil
lard said, but thought it might befog
the issue" if matters not directly con-
nected with the peace settlements were
introduced
Mr.. Millard said he had been told bv
both. British and French officials that
great difficulty in determining on any
definite policy for the Far East was
tnat the united States seemed to have
no stable attitude in regard to the
situation.
Concluding detailed story of the
Shantung negotiations, which he said
came directly from delegates to the
conference. Mr.. Millard said:
when Professor E. T. Williams.
for years head of the State Depart
ment Division of Far Eastern Affairs,
heard of the Shantung agreement, he
said This means war, and every
American expert there felt the same
way. | have heard, but do not know
whether II is true, that General
Bliss's letter TO the President on the
subject contained a statement to the
same effect"
Mr.. Millard. called as witness in
connection with the section of the
peace treaty giving Germanys inter
ests in the Chinese province Of Shan
tung to Japan. said he had spent about
twenty years in China. He said the
original acquisition Of German rights
in Shantung was largely responsible
for the Hay open door policy ard was
one OF the Indirect causes OF the Rus
soJapanese war. The German rights
were acquired, he said, with the secret
assent of the former Russian Gear.