Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
JAPAN URGED To CO
To ARMAMENT MEET
WITH CLEAN HANDS

TOXIC, July 25.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press).-"Let us go to Wash
ington with clean hands; let us get
out of Siberia as soon as possible"
declared Count Tsunetada Kato,
former high commissioner in Siberia,
in statement to the press Saturday.
1t was certain, he continued, that
the question of Russia would be TAX
en- up at the Washington confer
ence, and it was to be regretted that
the matter of evacuation was still
unsettled; the Japanese were eX-
cessively fearful of Bolshevism, he
declared, and should adopt a policy
of rapprochement towards the soviet.
Count Kato who has been travel
| ing in China and India, said Japan
was popularity regarded in those
coutries as aggressive, in proof of
which the critics pointed to her
policy in Siberia and Shantung.
Withdrawal from Siberia and Shan
tung was imperative to remove mis-
J understandings
The former minister of finance,
Reijiro Wakatsuki, who was one of
| the leaders of the Kensei-kai, the OPP
position, at a meeting of the poll
teal investigation committee of the
1 party, presented a similar view, in
! sisting that the maintenance of
troops in Siberia increased suspicion
abroad.
Japan must explicitly declare her
policy towards China and Siberia at
the Forthcoming conference" he de-
clared.
James F. Abbott, the American
commercial attache at Toxic, who
recently returned from China, re-
serves his views for official presen-
tation at Washington, for which city
he will leave at an early date.
The newspaper Yomi-Uri Shimbun,
believed to be interpreting the Off
cial view, predicts that the cancel
lat1on of the Ishii-Lansing agree
ment will be the outcome of the con-
ference, as it is not favored by the
Americans. In this connection, Of
tlclals have Informed the correspond
ent~that Japan's special position in
China and the Far East generally is
SO self-evident that it did not need
affirmation.
With reference to ornaments tho
foHnl- Urn Shimbun, in addition to the
| limitation for abolition of fortifi
cations in the islands in the Pacific
penands definition of the areas TO
De guarded by the various navies. IT
says IN thls demand it has official
COMPLETION OF PLANS
WAIT ON JAPANESE
WASHINGTON, July 25.-(Bv the
ASs si Press .--Progress towards
| maj adjustment of the plans for the
disarmament conference continues
TO pc delayed by Japan's consi-
eratlon of the extent to which She
| Will participate in the discussion of
me Tar eastern questions and the eff.
Lorts OF the British dominion pre-
mlers to bring about a postponement
OF the meeting.
Officials of the government re-
NAMED confident, however, that ont
| OF the deliberations of the diplomatic
ADVISORY council at Toxic would come
tnat would be in accord with the
general plan for the discussion of
Tar eastern subjects, and that Euro
pean opposition to a conference as
early as November would not be per
sisted in to the point of causing
serious delay Confidence in the ui-
| innate decision of Japan was height
ened by Associated Press dispatches
from Toxic quoting newspapers of
the Japanese capital as agreeing
that Japan will enter the conference
~ mas been clearly explained to
1
United States continues to favor A
date not later than November IL for
the opening of the conference, al
though 1t is understood that insist
ence on that feature was not curried
SO FAR as to indicate an unalterable
a aeie M i A counter suggestion
SAID to nave been made was to ad-
vance the. date Of the conference
with the discussions prior to the date
liked for the converting Of the legis-
lative bodies of their countries.
officials of the government have
ATTEMPTED to make it plain that they
desire to follow policy of give and
take in making arrangements for the
conference and in preparing the
agenda; Secretary Hughes appar-
ent optimism regarding the contro-
versy that has arisen with Japap
over the character of the program is
believed to be due largely to pursu
| ance of such a policy, and it ha
been indicated in various quarters
that the United States will not OBJ
ject to nor consider improper the
attaching of reservations by Japan
to an acceptance of the invitation
to DISCUSS questions of the Orient.
While the Japanese position was
awaited, government officials already
were working through great piles of
documents, Sitting out and co-ordin-
ating the information that will be
needed by the American delegates in
the discussions of the many ques-
lions that will come before the con-
ference. They have been assigned
by the state, war and treasury de-
partments, whose chiefs reflect the
| administrations confidence that in q
short time, perhaps before the end
Of the coming week, the obstacles to
holding the conference will be re-
moved