The daily times., 1921-11-03
PROBLEM OF OPEN
DOOR FOR CHINA
IS INTERNATIONAL
HER RESOURCES TEMPT
The Question is Who Will Help
Keep the "Open Door"
Open; the British Are Not
Anxious to Settle the Anglo
japanese Alliance Until the
Question is Settled.
By David Lawrence
Copyright, 1921, by The Dali,


Times.)
Washington, Nov. 3.-China has
always been problem common to
the six great powers-Great Britain,
United States, Germany, Japan, Rus
sia and France.
Time and again efforts have been
made to float siX-power loans or five
power loans among banking groups
fort to help put China on her feet
Little by little the nations of the
world have been encrOaching on her
domain. Her undevelopcd resources
have been tempting to the alert bust
ness men of other countries.
Concessions have been obtained in
all sorts of ways from the helpless
Chinese government which N recent
central government but has moved
along with curious indifference as
local governments and provincial au-
thorities have sprung up within the
immense empire.
The possession of railways means
a great deal to the nation which owns
and operates them in China. 1t in
sures access to the mines of the in
terror for the bringing out of valuable
, freights. British, American and Ger
man capital have been content to de-
velOp railway enterprises without as
suming to obtain political control for
, their respective governments of any
territory in China. The much talked
of province of Shantung with it's i'm
mense territory was never ceded to
Japan at the Paris peace conference
but the port which is practically the
door to Shantung province was given
Japan as well as jurisdiction over the
railway to the interior including a
thirty mile strip on each side of the
railway 1t is true the Germans had
that very right anu Japan was asking
| only for that which Germany had for
feited through her defeat in the war.
Japan was asking for those rights as
her reward for ousting the Germans
from Kiachow and the Far East.
But that brought the rub. Would
the japanese be content to operate
as the Germans had? Indeed, the Ger
mans entered into working agree
ments with British and other Euro
pean business men in the Far East
1t was purely commercial not a
political proposition. Would the
Japanese keep it commercial or use
lit to penetrate China politically and
iget a hold on the administrative in
dependence of China?
The Chinese thought SO. They
lopenly said so. That's the basis fo1
their opposition to Japan's acquisi-
| tion of one inch more of footho old in
China. It's question of faith, OF
trust or suspicion. The Japanese pro,
test that they never break their
WORD, that they have only disinter-
ested motives and seek merely q
place for commercial expansion fol
their already overpopulated country
But the Cn1noSo Will not IlSleu. Oudl
ing the Chinese suspicious are prac,
ticaIly all the British, French and
American business interests in China
They are violently antl-Japanese
They expect their respective govern
ments to use their moral and physica
power to keep the Japanese from
overstepping the bounds of CONNER
cial necessity. They insist that the
open door shall mean an open doo1
and no discrimination.
i Who will keep the "open door
lopen? Who will enforce the under
standing? The British governmen
; knows it cannot do it alone. Will th'
United States help? That's why thu
British are not anxious to announce
: at this time what they will do will
, the Anglo-Japanese alliance. On
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