The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-10-26
Who is there today who knows

!, Who is there today who knows
definitely the names Of the great SOL
diers who should have won everlast-
ing fame for themselves as we'll as
for the American people when fighting
on the fields of France? The names of
soldiers who had the general direction
of campaigning and who dealt out
supplies and forwarded ammunition
are known, but no American outside of
the army that l have met can name
accurately the men who commanded
corps and divisions at Cantigny,
Chateau-Thierry, Fismes, Mont Faucon,
St. Mihiel, and in the drives through
the awful wilderness of the Argonne.
The men who won the right to fame,
but who did not get it, were for the
most part the elder soldiers. They
are retiring from active service one
by one. They deserve everything of
the people, most of whom do not know
their names.
ut Conference Program Complete.
Finally it can be said with
almost fixed de6niteness that the
program for the arms conference viz
tually is complete. The conference will
discuss matters which lie within
well-defined field and will not climb
over nor crawl under the fence which
marks its boundaries.
1t is certain that the Far Eastern
problems will be taken up first. for
solution. There are many of these
problems and until they are solved no
adequate plan can be made for linn
itation of the national ornaments. The
Ear East supplies more difficult fac
tors for the problem Of arms limito-
ton than Europe itself, although to-
day the European countries present
many seemingly dangerous situation.
IL China wants it's independence OF
foreign control. 1t probably cannot
get it, but there are certain relieving
things which can be done for China,
and the chances are that the confer
ence will succeed in doing them. The
Chinese are Asiatics, and so are the
Japanese but except for certain ele-
ments in China the people Of the land
do not like their near neighbors, the
Japanese. The desire Of the Chinese
is to- get rid of the influence OF the
Japanese over material things in
China, and to get rid of the like influ-
ence and control which other nations
have over. Chinese matters. -
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! 1t is not thought that the spheres
of influence of the nations in China will
Des done away, with, either in a mate
rial or in directing sense, but the
chances are that conditions will be
ameliorated to an extent that tempo
rarily at least .will please the Chi
nese. .>s.5t I'll. t-..$a 49,. .=.Fl>'
s.s Japanese May Yield Much.
i The Siberian question and the Shan
tung question will prove difficult for
the conference to answer, but it is
said that the Japanese are willing to
go further in the way Of yielding than
the world generally would expect to be
the case. The Japanese today occupy
only the coast section of Siberia, but
there they have a firm hold under a
military leader who acts under the
Iirection of the military office in
Japan, and pays no attention whatso-
ever to the wishes of the Japanese
foreign office. 49, - :.
, TIE, military chiefs rule things in
Japan. What they want to have done,
lis done. In most foreign countries
military policy follows diplomatic
policy, but in japan today it seems to
! be the other. way. IA >>ss!, 81
! China today is suspicious Of every
country OH earth except the United
IStates. This is known 1t looks to
this country as a sort Of kindly fos-
ter parent who is square dealing and
mot given to punishment Of children
even though they are not it's own
blood. Actually the Chinese people
are looking to this: country to give
them that complete independence
which they seek. If Uncle Sam UNI
Idertakes the job all alone he will find
lit a taxing one. y .a5:.
! Anglo-Japanese Alliance. "a
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! The Anglo-Japanese alliance is one
which some Of the nations look upon
as rather inimical ito their interests,
and this view is taken clearly and
strongly by China. The Japanese do
mot want renewal of the agreement
between the British and the Japanese,
and it can be put down as a fact,
even though itibe al surprising one, that
virtually every Enslislllnan residing in
China is opposed to q renewal of the
alliance Of his country with Japan.
The British subjects resident in
China know the feeling of the Chinese
people, aud they fear boycott of
English goods of the kind that the
Chinese today have in effect against
Japanese goods. The Chinese people
ARE loath to apply 4 boycott to Great
britain, Ybut it's said they may do it
iii there Is any marked disposition on
the part of the British to be synpa-
lthctic with.lapanm its Chinese policy.
I 1t is not thought that the island
of zap will prove stumbling block
Ito the success of the COMING confer.
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