Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-10-28

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program for the arms conference e,e.
| tually is complete. The conference .tju
discuss matters which lie withia g
well-defned field and viii not climb
over nor crawl under the fence which
marks its boundaries.
| 1t is certain that the Far Eastern
problems will be taken up first for
| solution. There are many of these
problems and until they are solved no
adequate plan can be made for a linn
| itatfon of the national ornaments. The
| Far East supplies more difficult fac
tors for the problem of arms llmita-
ton than Europe itself, although to-
day the European countries present
many seemingly dangerous situation.
China wants it's independence Of
foreign control. 1t probably cannot
get it, but there are certain relieving
things which can be done for China,
and the chances are that the confer
ence will succeed in doing them. The
| Chinese are Asiatics, and so are the
japanese, but except for certain ele,
ments in China the people of the land
do not like their near neighbors, the
japanese. The desire of the Chinese
! is to get rid of the influence OF the
Japanese over material things in
China, and to get rid of the like infius
ence and control which other nations
| hove ox,n,, fNln;Y,oesr, $40 tfore.
It is not thought that the spheres
of influence of the nations in China will
be done away with, either in mate>
rial or In a directing sense, but the
chances are that conditions will be
ameliorated to an extent that tempo
rarily at least will please the Chi
neSe.
Japanese May Yield Much.
The Siberian question and the Shanr
tung question will prove difficult for
the conference to answer. but it is
said that the. Japanese are willing to
go further in the way Of yielding than
the world generally would expect to be
the case The Japanese today occupy
| only the coast section Of Siberia, but
there they have a firm hold under a
military leader who acts under the
direction of the military office in
Japan, and pays no attention whatso-
ever to the wishes of the japanese
foreign Office.
The military chiefs rule things III
Japan What they want to have done,
| is done. In most foreign countries
military policy follows diplomatic
policy, but in Japan today it seems to
| be the other way.
China today is suspicious Of every
country on earth except the United
States. This is known 1t looks to
this country as a sort of a kindly fOs-
ter parent who is square dealing and
not given to punishment of children
even though they are not its own
blood. Actually the Chinese people
are looking to this country to give
them that complete independence
which they seek. If Uncle Sam un-
dertakes the job all alone he will find
| 1t a taxing one.
Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
The AnglO-Japanese alliance is one
which some of the nations look upon
as rather inimical to their interests,
and this view is taken clearly and
strongly by China. The Japanese do
not want a renewal of the agreement
between the British and the Japanese,
and it can be put down as a fact,
even though it be surprising one, that
virtually every Englishman residing in.
China is opposed to a renewal of the
alliance of his country with Japan.
The British subjects resident in
China know the feeling of the Chinese
people, and they fear boycott Of
English goods of the kind that the
Chinese today have in effect against
japanese goods. The Chinese people
are loath to apply a boycott to Great
Britain, but it is said they may do it
if there is any marked disposition on
the part of the British to be sympa-
thetic with Japan in its Chinese policy.
1t is not thought that the island
of Yap will prove a stumbling block
to the success of the coming confer
ence. AS a matter of fact, the United
States and Japan have come pretty
close already to a settlement of this
matter. If all the Far East matters
are reduced to basis of understand
ing, it is believed in Washington that
great reductions in the ornaments of
the countries of the world can be Sc
cured by agreement without much diff
Guilty.
There have been rumors from time
to time that the arms conference will
take up such matters as the indebted
ness of one nation to another, and
some other extraneous things, such as
the failures or successes of the League
of Nations and policies relating to
questions which the league already
has under consideration. 1t is known
that the administration does not de-
sire any great broadening Of the field
Of discussion. In fact, it is said rather
bluntly in Washington that nothing
will be discussed except those things
which were nominated in the original
plan.