New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-12

Picking Statesman Asserts
Britain Changed Mind Az.
ter Sino-Japanese War,
Then Turned TO Toxic
Suspicious Of Overturcs
English Expected to Renew
Alliance, Being Fearful
of the Results i'm India

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SHANGHAI. June 1.-THE Anglo.
Japanese alliance would have been ar
Anglo-Chinese alliance, if China hsd
won the Sino-Japanese war, according
to Tang Sha0yi, the foremost states.
man of China to-day. Mr.. Tang lives
in Shanghai, where he devotes himself
to bringing together the factions of the
south of China and the Picking govern
ment with view to the unincatlon Of
China.
Great Britain made overtures to
China shortly before the Sino-Japanese
war through her Minister 40 Picking
Mr.. Mcdonald" said Mr.. Tang. "She
asked China to enter into an understand.
ing with Great Britain. China at that
tim was afraid of Russia, and the Pc
king government did not wish to make
any entangling alliances. Then came
the Sino-Japanese war; and Great Brit
ain watched carefully to see which ma
ton would become the better ally. To
the victor belonged the alliance, and
Japan won the war. Mcdonald was i'm
mcdiately transferred from Pekink to
the Embassy at Toxic. The result was
the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
THAT is a point that has not been
touched upon in tracing the origin of
the Apglo-Japanese alliance, and /
think that newspaper like Tho Tri-
bune would like to show the develop
ment Of the alliance from that point
Of view,' continued Mr.. Tang.
Is Columbia College Graduate
Tang Shao-yi spent Lis early years
in Springfield, Mass. He was graduated
from Columbia College in the class of
1883, when the college was located at
Forty-ninth Street. He is now presi-
dent of the Columbia Club in Shanghai,
and has always taken IN aeive interest
in American life. He is a Baseball fan
and can be seen at motion picture
shows in Shanghai several times a
week.
In. 1908 Mr.. Tang was the special en-
voy of the Chinese imperial govern
ment to the United States to thank the
government of the United States for
the return of the Boxer indemnity. Dur
Mr.. Tang was Premier of Yuan's gov
eminent for several months, and at
present he is considered one of the
most important statesmen in China. He
is respected by the military govern
ment of Canton as wei. as by the Pc
king governments and he is one of the
few men in China who can talk to rep
resentatives of both governments.
"The British and the Japanese say
to u.s." continued Mr.. Tang, "that they
are going to preserve our integrity.
Now, if go to my neighbor and out Of
a clelr sky say to him that am going
to protect his integrity. he immediately
suspects that am about to do him
some harm. He says to me, go to
the devil That is what China
must say automatically to both
Japan and Great Britain. No ma
ton is -.sked to protect the integrity
of China without China's consent, and
if they try to protect our integrity we
Immediately suspect that they are
about te violate it."
"Do you think that Great Britain
will renew the Anglo-Japanese AL
lance"
II think that Great Britain will, be-
cause she is fearful of results in India.
At present there are thousands Of
Japanese spies in India. When ! was
in India in 1904 Lord Kitchener said