The Washington herald., 1921-11-17
Demands Right to Exist
As Free and Indepen-
dent Nation.
LAYS PRINCIPLES
BEFORE CONCLAVE
Objects to Being Mulcted
BY Foreign Powers
Now in Control.

emma yesterday dsheu recognition
as an Independent nation. The great
Pacific celestial empire of r>ore than
400. .0eO, 900 souls. possessors of the
worlds oldest civilization and cul-
ture, pleaded with the younger pow
ers for her sovereign rights.
Dr.. Alfred SEE. Chinese Minister to
the United States and chief of the
Chinese delegation, read before the
secret committee on Far Eastern ar.
fairs of the conference an expose
Of the demands of the Asiatic re-
public. Ten points are enumerated
by the Chinese who move the adopt
ton of the principles embodied
therein before subcommittee pro-
ceed to the working out of applica
tions of these principles. in secret.
to the various problems of the
Orient.
Respect for her territorial integ-
rity, restitution of seized provinces
and regions, abandonment OF special
rights, mCuopolies. privileges and
extraterritorial rights. and with
drawal of foreign troops from her
soil, and permission to direct her
own domestic affairs and govern
her own internal and foreign poll
cies is what China asks.
The Chinese delegation does not
ask that all powers enjoying monop-
olies and privileges usurping her
sovereign rights and occupying her
territory abandon their claims and
eyacuate their holdings immediately.
She asks instead merely that her
| rights TO exist as a free and inde-
pendent nation be admitted by all
states. including those which have
prayed on her for decades, and that.
as time goes on and conditions war
rant. the economic. industrial, COM
mercial and political letters on her
| be loosened.
Object 70 -DeisS EapletteA.
/ For centuries before the door was
pried open" for younger powers 70
enter and loot and seize in Chha'
she governed herself inside her
frontiers and maintained order. But
the open door" proved to be one =
way passage, with everything for-
eign going in and nothing Chinese
coming ort. except such exports as
the guardians of the portal con-
trolled AMI levied on. Becaus" the
Chinese have yellow compleNions
and slan1 eyes thes do not believe
they should be dominated and eN-
plotted Foe the bushmen OF Aus
tralia and Lygmies of Central Africa
No foreign power patrols Japan
with its troops. nor, collects Gus
| toms duties for the Tokyo gov
ernment: no foreign power holds
! in p q Qiv,
! foreign power administers por-
/ tions of the United States for the
! Washington government.
China believes that eventually
/ she can prove her right to the
| same self-government as Other
nations and her ten points are q
request that principles OF in
dependence and sovereignty be
recognized as inherently hers. fol
application at various times in the
future. when they shall be worked
! out.
DIR. Koo Explains Demands.
! At the home of the Chinese dele.
CATION in Massachusetts avenue
which backs directly on the home
of Woodrow Wilson in S street
so that the Chinese delegates car
look out of their windows anC
see the former President summing
himself in his wheel chair in his
garden. DH Wellington koo
Chinese minister in London. anC
DR.. Wong, another plenipotentiary
last evening elucidated severa
points involved in the ten prin.
/ ciples submitted.
DR.. Koo and DIR. Wong declined
a,
in detail. giving concrete eX.
| the ground that such details have
not yet been presented to tho
committee and that their con
ferees of the conference shoulc
be the first to be apprised o.
specific cases involved in tn,
various principles involved.
China's lack of faith in tn,
league of nations, as an orEaniza
tion to aid and protect her is ap
parent in every line set forth il
her demands. as the covenant con
tains articles safeguarding her II
almost all points mentioned. AL
though DR.. Koo is China's mem
ber on the council of the league
the delegation has not seen At t
rely on the government organiza
| tion which was set up for the ex
press purpose of regulating man,
of the abuses of which complain
is made.
Asks Respect for Rights.
The first part of the openin,
demand made by China sums u,
all following principles laid down
demanding as it does that tn
powers engage to respect and oh
serve the territorial integrity an,
political and administrative in
dependence of the Chinese Re
public"
minor abandonment of he
sovereignty is offered in the sec
ond part of the initial demand
when as sop to the great powers
demands for their protection in tn
Far East. she offers not to leas
any portion of her territory t,
any power,
DIR. Wong asserted that the dele
CATION spoke in behalf of all o
China, asking that territorial in
tegrity of South as well as Nortl
China be respected, and that Man
churia Inner and Outer Mongolia
Turkestan and Thibet were in
cluded In "the Chinese Republic"
Differences between the Nortl
China Republic and DIR. Sun va
Sens South China government will
be arranged by the Chinese amonl
themselves later, as DR.. c. C. WI
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