New Britain herald., 1919-07-28
SHANTUNG TREATY
 NO CAUSE FOR WA
American Troops Would N Have to Fight in FOreig
 Wars Any More Than So diers of All Other Nation

Washington, July 23.-Denial thu Article x of the League of Natio E. covenant would prevent the cause
 Irish freedom or fix externally u boundaries of nations, was made
 the senate today by Senator Walls
 democrat Montana, who said language could be clearer than th articles stipulation that members al to protect one another from extern;M aggression.
 Obligations Are Limited.
 Beyond ravil and beyond control
 ersy," he said this limits our obligaM
 ton in the case of war by one nsN tion against another. It is a perfedN gratuitous assumption that the polit Y cal map of the world would nevdH undergo any change, unless nation are permitted to wage aggressive war fare against one another. Cites Previous Examples.
 All South and Central America reE volted and the independent governl ments thereof esta blished thcmselve5 within the domain belonging to SpaiI and Portugal. Article x would havi
 offered no obstacle to the transforma
 ton. Florida passed, by peaceful pun chase, from Spain to the United States Louisiana, out of which have beei carved 10 great states of the union ! was not acquired by conquest, but b. purchase.
 After centuries of vain effort b, England to subjug9.e Scotland, th' two countries coallsced. Sweden ane Norway united through the Napole l onic wars, peacaby separtted in 1905 Changes Will Continue. Changes will continue to b' wrought by peaceful negotiation ana internal commotion and revolution Siberia may separate itself from Rus sia. Ireland or Egypt may revolt Referring to the assertion thai outside aid in revolution such al France gave the American colonie: would be precluded under the article
 Mir. Walsh continued:
 Colonies Would Win Anyway.
 ''The goth century is not the 18th
 If present day notions prevalent ir
 England were dominant in the 18th
 century, there probably would never
 have been any American revolution
 But I deny that but for the aid oi
 France we would never have achieved
 independence. Under the league fl
 would have been impossible for Eng. land to have employed 3O,OO0 mer.
 cenary Hessians to reduce the col onies.'
 Favors Irish Freedom. Reviewing Ireland's struggle fol freedom. including her successive ait from Spain. France and Germany, the senator said:
 No single nation save the United States is today in the same class as military power with the British em pire There muCt be a union of pow CTS against her to afford the 4appor tunity which article x. denies to Ire land. Are senators prepared to leav, open for fermentation another work war on the chance of a change of gov ernment for Ireland? I prefer t, hope that the end may be attained il some other way Senator Walsh said the sentiment il the United States for Irish freedon was almost unanimous but that tn
 same senators who said article x closed the way to American aid in a, Irish revolution always added in tn
 same breath that we must keep ou of the quarrels of Europe" Takes Up Shantung Question. Taking up the Shantung provision he continued:
 "President Wilson eventually yield ed that Japan might be induced L come into the league. But if the treat is rejected, Shantung remains witt
 Japan and will remain with Japan un til she restores it to China of her owl
 free will, or until she is compelled |
 do so by force of arms. Are senator prepared to make war upon Japan t compel the evacuation of Shantung China loses no territory by the treaty
 she simply does not get back what sh
 lost to Germany 21 years ago
 But what does China gain by arti cle K? Germany has not been tn