The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-01
JAPAN PLEDGED ID POLICY OF PEACE
 AND ''OPEN DOOR'
Member of Peace Delegation Says Country to Seek Eff fectiveP Partnership With
 the Associated Powers
By Associated Press

New York, December 31. Japan will enter the peace con ference pledged to a policy of peace and the "open door" in
 the far east, in the maintenance of which she will welcome the cooperation of the allies, Baron
 Nobuaki Makino of the Japan
 csc peace commission declared
 on his arrival here today with
 fellow delegates, attaches and
 secretaries on the way to
 France.
 His countrys course in her foreign
 relations. said the baron, who is
 member of the Japanese house of peers
 and the advisory council of diplomatic
 affa irs will be such as to insure the
 most effective partnership with the
 associated powers jon the work of re-
 construction. Having established peace
 in the orient by clearing Germany
 from her far eastern bases and keeping
 the Pacific open to commerce. he ad-
 ded, Japan Is fully in accord with
 the allies for a just and lasting world
 peace
 Accompanying Baron Makino on his
 arrival on a special train, with an of ficiai escort, provided by the state de- partment were Lieutenant General Takeji Moro and Vice Admiral Isomu y.~ sentatives; Eigo Fukai director of the Bank of Japan, and Kikusoburo Fukui and Matazo Kita, noted Japanese fnan- ciers, together with party of attaches and secretaries numbering 23.
 Marquis Saionji, senior delegate, will jon the party in Paris, travelling Ly way of the Suez canal. Baron Chinda, ambassador to England, is the third peace envoy of ambassadorial rank. TO SAIL JANUARY 4 Baron Makino will go to Washing ton to call on Viscount Ishii, the Jap anese ambassador and with his party Will sail January on the Cunard liner Carmania spending a few days In Lon don 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 his way home after attending school at Philadelphia. At that time his father. ToshimicEi l Okubo. was a member of the Iwakura ! mission. which visited this country and England to announce the restoration of i3the throne of Japan and the deterni- nation of the new government to pur- sue the policy of "open door" in for eign intercourse Baron MAlSino as serted that 'ever$thinE have seen
 land everything have heard from my countrymen since I arrived on your shores has tended to indicate even closer and more sympathetic relations 1 for the future than have prevailed in i the past P
 The peace commissioner expressed
 regret over his inability to accept a 1 luncheon invitation of the New York 1 chamber of commerce, representing "business men of this city with which our connections and interests are con- 1 tinually drawing closer" In the days of readjustment, he said, i've will wei l come in the far east closer and more | intimate relations with the leaders oi 1 industry, trade and commerce, who have perhaps done more than armies or navies to win the war The fai l east offers vast field for the CO | operation of the forces of reconstruc- l tion and those forces must necessarily l De drawn from the ranks of the mer l who compose the chambers of com merce throughout Europe. the United I States, Japan and China.''
 For the last six months. the baror stated. the disturbed conditions in Rus sia and Siberia. as well as the activi- ties of enemy agents whom it was i'm possible to eliminate altogether, cou- pied with the disagreement betweer north and south in China, had caused some uneasiness, but the surrender O. | Germany had lifted a great load from Ihe whole country. The commercial delegates, he said. appeared to be quite confident that the conference at Yer sailles would result in the establish
 ment ef improved conditions through out the far east