The Washington herald., 1921-11-25
Alarmed Pekin Delegates
Fear InternatiOnaliza-
tion of Country. g.
JAPANESE ADOPT
WAITING ATTITUDE
Hughes Stand on MatsaI
Clarifies Situation on
Scrapping Shipl. II

] ii" anu dments will
divide attention today when IN.
armament confereno e reconv.ne.
over Thanksgivir conferences
among the visiting deIegstions-the
United States pS rty entered into tn.
spirit of the day to the exclusion
Of business - have emphasized the
sharp differences Of opinion con-
cerning dets lis that would carry
into effect the program already
broadly outlined These conferences
also broug ht into sharp relief in
each delegation the necessity OF
compromi' Ies that will prevent the
business getting snsrled. and ami
; nosit1es developing which would
spell international danger.
The Chinese situation is the most
l involved. The efforts to "interns !.
tionaliLe' China are backed by very
influential delegates in at least two
OF the delegations representing
N . Jor powers To Offset this IL Is
! entirely possible that the American
delegation will be compelled 10 in
terpret the four Root resolutions
which have been unanimously
adopted.
BRAND Is Satisfied
The naval question is working out
! as had been expected. The refusal
OF Secretary Hughes and the Ameri-
can delegation to consider the Jan
anese claims that the Matsu should
be considered as already a part Of
their navy and. therefore. not sub
Ject TO scrapping, has greatly clari-
ned the outlook. The japanese def-
egation has reported directly 10
Tokyo that their tight seems hope
less. They are understood TO have
asked the Japanese government 90
sanction acceptance of the Hughes
proposals exactly as originally out
lined. 1t is believed here that this
will be done. So soon as this is ac-
icomplished. the next step, arrange
ment Of the quota of sUuisries,
will be in order.
Premier BRAND has left ws<h-
ington- Starting for JSew York.
where on Friday he viii sail 70,
France, he made it Vain that he
was well pleased with the result
of his work here. Vie considsrs il
certain that there will be no at
tempt made to limit French land
armamentA And. after all, that
vas the SeA 0o@eSh oI hls NislN
here.
Chinese Are TronbIee.
Today. at IL o'clock. the commit
tee on the Pacific and the Far East.
made up OF all of the delegates
from the nine power, represented
here. will resume its lsbors. The
chief bone Of contention 10 e1-
pected TO be reached. namely. the
policy that will be followed In
dealing with leased rights and eI-
into the proceedings japanese Brit
ish and French holdings, especially
Shsntung and Msnchurix
1t is expected that the Chinese
will be allowed to state their po-
sition. They are understood 20 be
very distinctly troubled over the
manner in which certain of the de
egations have taken public positions
against their 10 points. Privately
certain Of the Chinese delegates
complain that they very greatly
fear that in British and French
quarters at least there is a general
disposition to internationslize China
rather than to allow her to get on
her feet as a nation.
VIII Ask Action To-day.
The manner in which the French
and the British have indicated their
opposition to any system that
would end international domination
Of the Chinese customs revenues has
alarmed the Chinese. They believed
that they would be guaranteed COM
plete autonomy on customs by this
conference. Now they are convinced
that the most they can expect 10
get out Of il all will be an increase
from 5 per cent TO possibly tho
1874 per cent that they have asked,
But this will be completely unsst-
isfactory to the Chinese govern
ment. which is insisting that IL
must be allowed TO deal with its
most important problems In its own
way.
The Chinese tomorrow will ask
that action be taken which will
open the way to their reEsininE
control of their own affairs. They
will ask that the various powers
holding concessions in China adopt
a policy of gradual turning back
complete control to China Just
how they want this worked out
the Chinese delegation will not say
until they can make their complete
statement before the entire confer
ence.
Fight on Every Issue.
The very fact that there has been
a wide difference Of opinion among
the delegates as TO what has
been accomplished has Influenced
the Chinese delegation to get
ready to fight on every single
issue that they raise. They refer
to the propaganda" statements by
attaches TO delegations that there
will be pooling of railroads. with
an International committee to pass
upos complaints and an Increase
of the consortium as indicating that
efforts are being made TO arrange
an alliance of the powers againa
China And the declaration that the
Root resolutions legalize all exist.
ing Chinese treaties has about the
same effect on the delegation that
waving a red flag at bull would
have. And the very general fntims-
tions from embassy and legation
sources here that the existing Pc
kin government is discr@,lt'-d has
added TO the troubles ia, ''''i-
nese delegation. The insist