The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-07-15
NORRIS
SPEAKS FOR
CHINESE
Nebraska Senator Says the
League Pact Robs China
of Her Birthright.
fINrERNArIoNAL NEws sERvlcEl


WASHINGTON, July 15.-Ensland,
France. Italy and Russia, before the
entry Of the United States into the war
entered into a secret pact with Japan
that they should divide the spoiIs OF
victory amongst themselves and rob
China of her birthright by turning her
over to the tender mercies of Japan"
Senator Norris. Republican. OF Nebraska.
charged in the senate this afternoon.
Norris read into the Congressional
Record in support of his charge cor
respondence which he asserted had
passed between the British and japanese
and others of the entente powers before
and after the United States went into
the war.
LEAGUE ONLY PART OF TREATY.
During all of my public life I have
been a firm believer in some kind of an
international agreement between the
leading civilized nations of the world
that would make war between civilized
nations as nearly impossible as human
ingenuity could devise" Senator Norris
said
The league Of nations is only q part
Of the treaty. 1t contains itself many
Objectionable features. but even II we
were willing to accept It in its present
form we would not do so without accept
ing the entire treaty.
QUESTION OF ARMAMENT.
Standing out prominently among the
things that have caused war in the past
+ is the question of armament. There is
no provision in the treaty anywhere that
will bring about disarmament
The compact for a league Of nations
should require that all business should
! be done In public. The compact for tha
/ league Of nations should also contain a
provision for the arbitration Of interna-
( tional disputes. The constitution for a
/ league Of nations ought not to include
anything that is not absolutely necessary
( to carry out the object of the compact"
/ Senator Norris declared that he could
not sympathize with arguments that the
league Of nations would weaken our SOW
ereignty or would override the Monroe
doctrine and that he would perhaps be
willing to accept the league with its
faults as he fould them if it were not
that acceptance of the league and this
treaty would mean acceptance Of the
Shantung clause.
Senator Norris charged that lit Is
clearly disclosed that while those leading
governments Of the world were inducine
China to get into the war in order thai
they might secure her assistance and
particularly that they might get posses
sion of the German ships interned II
China's harbors. they were secretly plot
ting among themselves for her destruc
tion after she had complied with thei
wishes and the war was over.
After the entente powers had gottei
out of China all that was possible !
was agreed that England should assis
Japan in her claim against China, an
to compensate England. Japan agreed {
assist England in getting all the Ger
man possessions south of the equator.
Norris asserted.
These agreements were made in sec
ret at a time when all the nations en-
itered in them were proclaining to III
world that scret treaties and secret IL
plomacy must be forever abolished" h
continued.
Poor. weak China was not told b
: these great statesmen representing IN
' highest civilized nations Of the eaTtf
! that after she had assisted % the limi
5 Of her power il overcoming German,
. she herself should be pounced upon an
4 her territory turned over 70 other ma
e tions. the same as it was proposed
e turn over the territory of the ccnlmo
| enemy"