Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-23
ANGLO JAPANESE TREATY
 BEFORE PREM|ERS
Topics of World Wide Interest To Be considered By London
 Conference
By Alfred J. West, United Press Staff Correspondent)


 vital importance to the British Elm pire and of intense interest to the world in general were commenced here today at the first postwar con- ference of Empire premiers presided over by Premier Lloyd George.
 Among those in attendanceare Ar thur Meighen, premier of Canada w. M. Hughes, premier of Austra- lia; W. F. Massey, premier of New Zealand; Gen., sJan c. Shuts, pre- mier of South Africa; Richard
 Squires, premier of New Found land, and the Indian representatives are: Secretary for India, E. s. Mon tagu, His Highness the Maharaja of Cotch Gone of the princes of Vest ern India), and Srimvasa Sastri. In addition to Premier Shuts, South Africa is represented by Minister of Agriculture Sir Thomas Smartt and Minister of Defence Col H. Mentz.
 There is an unusually heavy pro- gram, the chief subjects which are as follows:
 CD The renewal of the Anglo-Jap- anese treaty.
 (2) Relation of the Dominions to Imperial foreign policy.
 (3) Relation of the Empire as whole to external affairs.
 (4) Preparations for future Im- perial conference, to consider the constitutional relations of the Elm pire.
 The relation of the United King dom with Japan will be a subject of some delicaey when the question of the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty comes up. Australia talks free ly of the Japanese menace as Eng land used to talk of the German menace. She thinks that Japan took advantage of the pre-occupations of Europe to consolidate her own posi- tion and the acquisition by that pow CT of the possessions of Germany in the Northern Pacific has made her
  own Japanese on the Pacific coast which will be expounded by Premier Meighen.
 The claim of the Dominion to "an adequate voice in foreign relations" is likely to be not only conceded but welcomed by the home government. The public of the Empire will see in 1t some measures of safeguard again st the dangers of secret diplomacy and aggressive international combina- tions. As autonomous nations, the the Empires foreign policy being moulded to suit the taste of Downing Street alone. For this reason it is probable that proposals will be put forward for removing relations with the Dominion from the sphere of the Colonial Office.
 Other subjects comprise interim perial communication and defense by land sea and air; the position of British Indians drought the Empire, question to Indian delegation will press in order to obtain free entry of Indian subjects into all parts of the British Empire on the. same terms as other subjects; overseas settle ment, which mainly deals emigra- ton from the United Kingdom to all parts of the Empire; civil avaition, an Imperial wireless communications and an Imperial statistitical bureau and patents. Germany separations will also be considered, including the allocation of amounts due the various parts of the Empire.
 There has been considerable specu- lation of the United Kingdom with the self governing Dominions, and of the Dominions with each other, but it has been authoratively pro- posed that this important question be reserved for special conference in Canada next year. This proposal is made in order to enlarge the confer ence by the attendance of not only the British and Dominion ministries, but also representatives of the off cial opposition in the British and Dominions parliaments.