New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Delegates Will Demand
Complete Withdrawal,
Including War Vessels
and Legation Guard
Wireless Stations
Also Objected To
Present System Said to
Wound Pride of People
and Incite Disorders
BY Thomas Steep

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Chifa's
plea for relief from foreign control,
which will be resumed tomorrow be-
fore the conference committee on
Pacific and Far Eastern questions, con-
templates, it was learned to-day, an
immediate demand for the prompt
withdrawal of all foreign troops and
gunboats from Chinese soil and waters.
The demand will embrace protest
that the presence of American troops
among those Of other nations consti-
tutes violation of Ch;na's territorial
integrity and that they are a constant
source of friction between natives and
foreigners.
The foreign troops which the Chinese
delegates will ask be withdrawn in
clude the famous "Legation Guards" !"
which the United States, Great Britain,
Japan, France, Belgium, Italy and Hol-
land have maintained in Peking ever
since the Boxer uprising, which oc-
Cured under the Manchu dynasty.
more than twenty years ago. The
withdrawal of gunboats from the
mouth of the Yangtse River also will
be asked.
Japan Has Strongest Force
American armed forces at Picking
are stronger in number and in machine
guns than those of any other country
except Japan. Out of total of forty
four officers, $50 enlisted men and fifty
machine guns of foreign countries,
America maintains as it's legation
guard fourteen officers, 27O enlisted
men and twelve machine guns. Japan
maintains force slightly in excess of
that number.
At Tientsin, the port of Peking, the
total foreign troops number 3,128 en-
listed men and 122 officers. Of this
number 910 enlisted men and thirty
eight officers, with sixteen machine
guns, are American. Altogether the
American forces at the Chinese capital
and elsewhere number / ,464 enlisted
men and sixty officers, with twenty
eight machine guns, or almost one
third of all foreign troops regularly
maintained in China outside of Man
churia and other places where Japan
pOliCeS ueI railways Will troops.
Foreign troops have been stationed
ing against any possible recurrence Of
the Boxer troubles. In December, 1900,
the powers delivered to the Chinese.
government q note demanding "the right
of each power to maintain permanent
guard in the quarter (legation quarter
of Peking) for the defence of its lega-
tion." The right was granted in
Chna's reply one month later and con-
firmed in protocol in September,
1901.
Japanese Expedition Unjustified
The presence of foreign troops at
other places in China, where America
has about 1900 soldiers, is declared by
China to be without any sanction by
treaty" AS an instance, it is argued,
Japan has dispatched, battalion Of
600 soldiers 800 miles up the Yangtse
River to Hankow, where they have es-
tablished a wireless station without
any sanction which rests on treaty
rights" On the border of Mongolia
Japanese troops are also declared to
have been stationed without the au-
thority of the Chinese government.
sons why the Chinese government de-
sires the immediate withdrawal of le-
cation and other foreign troops, has
been prepared by the Chinese dele
gates. 1t probably will be presented
before the Far Eastern committee
Tuesday or Wednesday. The commit
tee, which is now considering China's
demand for an increase in her import
duty limitation, for the elimination Of
the system of extraterritoriality and
for the abolition of foreign postoffices,
is expected to take up the question Of
foreign troops without delay.
Conditions Declared Changed
The arguments which the Chinese
delegates have prepared, it is learned
are in substance as follows:
The conditions which caused the
Boxer uprisings and the subsequent
presence of foreign troops have ceased
to exist, because the respect of the
Chinese for foreigners in recent years
has been beyond criticism, even in
time of internal disturbance.
The presence of the legation guards
and of foreign troops between the cap
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