New Britain herald., 1921-11-25
ISHIE PACT IS
 CRUX OF FARLEY
Discussion Of Lansing Agree. ment Big Test Of Conference
By Wm. Philip Simms

Washington, Nov. 23,-The omin- ous dispute waGed for years as to the meaning of the Lansing lshi agree mont under which miltarist Japan virtually lays claim to domination of China will be renewed at the arms conference here-and settled.
 This agreement, signed at Wash ington in 1917, is not only the key to Japan's position in China but to the whole Far Eastern question.
 According to former Secretary of state Robert Lansing, the agreement was made to allay a mutual feeling of suspicion" on the part of the peo- pie of Japan and America with re- gard to the motives of the two coun- tries in China.
 The agreement was through an ex- change Of notes between Secretary Lansing and Niscount Ishi, stating that territorial proplnquity creates special relations between countries, and consequently the government of the United States recognizes that Japan has special interest in China particularly in the part to which her possessions are contiguous"
 Open Door Upheld.
 The agreement reiterated the Am erican doctrine of the open door in, and the territorial integrity of, China.
 "Who suggested the proposition of special interest,"" Senator Borah asked Secretary Lansing at the hear ings before the senate foreign rela- tions committee.
 Lansing: Viscount Ishii
 Borah: You suggested to him that if that meant political control or paramount control you did not care to discuss it?
 Lansing: Yes.
 Borah; What did he say in reply to that?
 Lansing; He continued the dis cussion.
 Borah: Along what line?
 Lansing: Well, along the line that he inserted it in his counterdraft of the note and urged that it be includ- ed. But he understood exactly what terests' to mean.
 Borah: And you understood what he interpreted them to mean?
 Lansing: No, I did not.
 Borah He had said his idea was that Japan had special interests in China which ought to be recognized, and by those special interests he meant paramount control? 7 Lansing: Yes; and I told him would not consider it.
 Borah: Did he say: "Very well, I adopt that construction of it " or anything of that kind?
 Lansing: No; but he continued to introduce the words Special inter- ests."
 Russ Envoy Sees Trouble
 The Japanese are manifesting more and more a clear tendency to inter- pret the special position of Japan in China in the sense that would to some extent estab blish a Japanese GcontFol over the foreign affairs of China,' the Russian ambassador in Tokyo later reported to his govern ment.
 "On the other hand" he continued, the Japanese do not attach great inn portance to it's recognition of the principle of the open door It is therefore quite possible that at some future time there may arise in this connection misunderstanding be- tween Japan and the United States.
 The minister of foreign affairs again confirmed today in conversa- ton with me that in the negotiations by Viscount 1shii the question at issue is not some special concession to Japan in these or other parts of China, but Japan's special position in China as whole"
 Concluding, the Russian ambassa- dor said:
 I gain the impression from the foreign minister that he is conscious of the possibility of misunderstood ngs also in the future, but is of the