Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-11-25
ENGLAND BACKS
j. 5. STAND ON
FAR EAST PLAN
japan Admitted in 1919 That
Manchuria and Mongolia
Were Chinese Provinces
NEW WHITE BOOK
Britain Also on Record as Favoring
International Pool for Financing
Future Chinese Concessions.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Revelation
of the fact that the United States
and England stand side by side in de-
manding that Manchuria and Mon
golia be deemed an integral part of
| China, with the further revelation
that Japan practically has accepted
that view is embodied in compila-
tion of British diplomatic negotiations
/ just received in Washington.
This compilation takes the form OF
another volume of the British diplo-
matte "White Book" and covers the
proceedings of the Paris conference OF
1919 and 1920, which dealt with the
! existing Chinese consortium. This
book not only puts the British govern
ment on record as having asserted
unequivocally that Manchuria and
! Mongolia are essentially Chinese, but
1 the British government is on record
/ in favor of an international pool for
the financing Of all future concessions
in China.
That the declaration of British
policy laid down in the 'White Book"
have an Immediate and direct bear
ing upon the business now before the
Far Eastern committee of the Wash
| ington conference is obvious, and, be-
cause of the Japanese general ac-
quiesence in these policies at the
Paris conference, it is believed
that this volume will play an
! important and perhaps decisive part
! in bringing the Chinese problem to a
head
| No later than yesterday Vice For
! eign Minister Hanihara, of Japan,
! newly, CREATED a. member of that en-
pire'S confSrekce delegation, express
ed thefSicw that the term China"
to which the general principles adopt
ed BY the Pacific and Far Eastern
committee are te' be applied, includes
Manchuria and Mongolia. Pricr
Japanese statements had agreed as
to Manchuria, but there had been no
prior expression as to Mongolia
There also emanated yesterday from
| British sources statement, puzZling
in its effect particularly upon the
Chinese delegation, that the general
principles adopted by the powers
might be assumed. in application, to
Imply acceptance by China of the
four-powcr consortium organized in
1919 and 1920 and to imply further
an international pooling of railway
concessions in China. Minister AL
fred Sze, Of the Chinese delegation,
declared no such Interpretation was
understood by China when the prin-
ciples were adopted. Mr. Hanihara,
for the japanese delegation, said such
an Interpretation had not yet been
discussed in the conference.
Reference today to the "White
Book" throws new light not only upon
the background of the entire subject
of the conSortium and international
pool, but upon the attitude of JaDan
as to considering Manchuria and Mon
colia as parts of China. Undoubtedly
it indicates the groundwork upon
which will rest some of Great Rri-
tain's policies with regard to the Far
East in connection with the current
negotiations at WASHINGTON.
IT further clinches the fact that
Japan. in entering the consortium, did
so with an understanding ard ac-
ceptancc Of the principles, or the basis
of two assurances:
First-Conrrctc explanation that
the pooling Of concessions in the con-
sortium would not include vested in
terests of any power in China, which
would exclude among other things the
South Manchurian Railway. Japan's
most priced enterprise in Manchuria.
Second-An official assurance by
Great Britain that the consortium
should never he so interpreted as to
imperl Japan's economic or political
security.
Lord CUrzon. the new publication
shows. plainly defined his govern
ment's policv in the course of con-
froversv with Janan as to whether
the rights claimed by the Japanese
in Nanchuria and Mongolia should be
considered to exclude those countries
from the operation of the consortium.