Arizona republican., 1921-10-29
SOUTHERN CHINA MI l INVITED ID ASSEMBL '
Arms Farley Will Cover All China But Only Pro- Japanese North China Will Be Represented
6v HERBERT COREY


 is going to leave Washington.
 Who is Ma Soo? And why is he going to leave? And what of it?
 Read the answers to those ques- tions and you'll have the whole story. Let's begin with the reason why first. Ma 500 is going to leave Washing ton because he thinks the Japanese have Chinese ace in the hole in the arms barley. More than that, he thinks the American government has been privy to the dealing of that ace 10 its most dangerous political oppo- nent. More yet, he thinks that the action of the American government was taken at the suggestion of Great Britain. whose wishes in Far Eas- tern matters dc not by any means travel in the same harness as those of the United States.
 T do not want the South China or Canton government blamed with anything that may happen at the arms barley" ke said. If I were to remain in Washington I might be blamed. Some one might say to me:
 Unpleasant Diplomatic Feature
 You were on the ground. Why did you not protest@
 As my protest would not be heard I do not propose to stay here
 
 Ma Soos statement reopens one of the most unpleasant diplomatic fea- lures of the coming barley. He is the commissioner here of the South China government This government is headed by pr. Sun Yat-Sen, who led the original Chinese rebellion, and 10 whose efforts the overthrow of the Manchu monarchy and the accep- tance by China of a republican form of government are primarily due. Unfortunately for all concerned the Chinese did not stop with a single republic but created two.
 or these the South China govern ment is the more enlightened. pros- porous and progressive. A look at the map tells that story. This is the Sun Yat-Sen government. The oth- CT has its capital at Picking in the north and nearest Japan, and is headed by Hsu- -Shih- Chang. The South China government has always been anti-Japanese, although it has from time to time made use of the Japanese. It's leaders are generally accredited with a greater degree Of political wisdom than are those of North China
 Those Twenty-One Demands Again South China admittedly possesses 200.0O0.000 of the 35o,000,000, or such a matter of the inhabitants of China. Its government is quite as stable as that of North China. It has never conceded anything of consequence to the Japanese, whereas the North China or Hsu- Shih- Chang govern ment is the one which yielded to the Japanese in the matter of the twenty one demands. Some, at least, of these twenty-one demands will come up for consideration in the arms barley.
 But it is claimed that the Nortf China government yielded under dur ess and the threat of force to the Japanese in this natter" I said to Ma Soo.
 Only Half of China Invited
 The chief question before the arms barley will be the consideration of the Inooted questions in the East. These questions boil down to the open door in China and the privileged position claimed there by Japan. One would think-if one were not a diplomat that inasmuch as China has been in- vited to the conference, it is only req sonable that all China should be in- vited. But 1t appears that only the small moiety of China has been asked The larger, more prosperous, more in telligent half has been excluded.
 Furthermore, that excluded half i: not only more distinctly pro-Ameri- can and anti-Japanese in sentimen than is the other, but, according tt the claims of Ma Soo, is more dis tinctly representative of Chinese feel ing than the Peking government. H. does not mince words in declarin; that popular sentiment backs the gov ernment of Sun Yat-Sen as agains that of North China. The one, h says, is pro-Japanese, which mean |. that it is not truly nationalistic il sentiment The other is anti Jap anese and pro-C China.
 Why did not the United State ask both halves of China to take par in the conference?" asked an Amer ican in a position to answer
 Because the powers have not rec ognized the South China govern ment," he said.
 Why Recognition Is Withheld
 The United States has not recog nized the South China government according to popular belief, becaus the European powers and Japan hay refused to join in that recognition Great Britain and Japan have bee able to handle the North China gov ernment as they pleased. They hay not been dDle 10 ndnule the SOuL China government at all Therefor the prize of recognition was given | the more amenable lot.
 It is a pretty situation. Only ha of China is to be recognized in th barley, and yet the rules laid dow at that barley will cover all Chini The half that is recognized is tt half that is under the joint thumt of Japan and Great Britain. Japa and Great Britain are treaty part ners in the Anglo-Jap alliance, an their interests are by no means ot interests. We have voluntarily pei mitted our opponents in the gre; game of international diplomacy slip a marked card in the deck. tried to get a state department at thority to answer this question:
 What gre the relations towal Japan Of the South China and Il North China governments respe,