Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-12-23

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again on Wednesday with formal plea
to the Far Eastern committee for
the abrOgation Of the treaties grow
ing out of the twenty-one demands
of Japan in 1915, which China says
she was forced to accept. BY these
treaties Japan retains her hold on
Shantung and Manchuria. The jap
anese delegates quickly and sharply
objected to the Chinese proposal and
the committee adjourned sine die.
Meanwhile the negotiations between
the Japanese and Chinese outside the
conference are continuing, the latter
putting forward a plan by which Chi
nese bankers propose to purchase from
Japan the ownership and control of
the Shantung railroad-the nub of the
whole controversy over that province.
1t was said the Japanese had so far
receded from their original claims for
retention of half ownership that they
were now willing to give up the road.
with certain reservations concerning
the methods and security for payment,
and also preferential rights of invest
ment. These rights might result In
giving the Japanese actual control of
the management, but China realizes
that she cannot get all she. asks.
The members of the conference evil
IDENTIFY feel that the best they can do
for China now is to adopt new bill
of rights" for her which will enable
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government, and that to such govern
ment may be left many of the coun-
try's problems and troubles.
To further complicate the Chinese
problem came from the soviet govern
ment of Russia protest against dis
cussion of the Chinese Eastern rail-
way by the conference. The road,
which is of immense strategic and
economic Importance to Russia, China
and Japan, was built by Russia and
legally speaking belongs to Russia.
For several years it has been managed
by an interallied board whose chair
man is John F. Stevens Of America.
Both the United States and Japan
have spent large sums on the upkeep
Of the line.
Secretary Hughes made public the
main points of the agreement entered
into between the United States and
Japan concerning zap and the other
islands north of the equator assigned
to Japan by the treaty of Versailles.
1t confers upon the United States
equal privileges with Japan in all
those islands but imposes on 1t no
obligations or responsibilities.
british and French statesmen and
- financiers have not yet been able
to come to anything like agreement
concerning the German separations,
and from both countries come unoffi-
cial but insistent calls to America
to take part in the discussions. The
hope is expressed daily that President
Harding will call another conference
TO handle this problem and that OF
world finances generally. Meantime
the senate finance committee Is fass-
ing with the administrators foreign
loan refunding bill and trying to do
things to 1t which Secretary Of the
Treasury Mellon does not like. He
especially objected to proposed pro-
vision requiring foreign nations to
make payments of interest on their
Indebtedness to the United States
semi-annually. He said this would
seriously handicap negotiations for re-
funding the loans.
d 9TH the British parliament and the
ID Dali Eireann, the peasant parlia-
ment'' of Ireland, met last week TO
receive the reports of the peace dele
gates and to act on the treaty they
drew up. The British lawmakers were
urged both by the king and Premier
Lloyd George to ratify the treaty and,
DESPITE the opposition of few die
hards." there was no doubt that they
would do so.
In Dublin the agreement was not
having quite so smooth a path. From
the outset De Valera made plain his
opposition. if not to the whole treaty,
at least to certain of its provisions,
and he accused the Irish delegates
of exceeding their powers In signing
# before submitting 1t to the dali
cabinet. Collins and Griffith, leaders
of the treaty supporters. vigorously
nnheld their action and the debate be-
came so warm that the dali went into
secret session to settle that point,
with the understanding that the debate
ON the acceptance of the treaty should
be public. Observers were confident
that q majority of the dali members