The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-21
CHINA HAS PLAN
Wants All Nations to ReIin-
quish Their Rights.
Follows Proposed Principles
With Set of Demands.
new TASKS ON PROGRAM
Land Armaments May Be
Shelved to Gain Speed.
Navy Limitation Negotiations
Go. Forward Successfully.

Washington, Nov. 21-A set of
concrete proposals demanding that
the foreign powers. particularly ia
pan, relinquish their territorial, eco
nomic and administrative rights and
claims in China will be placed to the
international conference by the Chi
nese delegates this week. The ten
points submitted by China last week
were in the form of principles and did
not constitute formal demands upon
the powers.
China probably will request formal
ly the 1epudiation of the Lansing
Ishii agreement of 1917, by which
America recognized Japan's special
position" in the Far East and on
which Japan relied to make effective
her famous twenty-one demands inn
posed upon China in 1915.
Chinese Admit Danger.
The Chinese delegates admit the
danger of sudden changes and are
willing that the readjustments be car
red out gradually if the powers agree
to them. China will announce her
willingness % to give pledges for
safeguarding legitimate foreign inter-
ests; CD to make just compensations
where due; (3) to establish order as
quickly as possible, and (4) to give
all foreign countries equal and free
opportunity for commercial expansion
upon Chinese soil.
dEJdI Is 0ApeCleu 10 oppose many
of China's demands on the ground
that some are not proper subjects for
discussion here and that others could
not be effectively applied because of
the chaos of civil war and the weak
ness and limited authority of the
Peking government
The Chinese discussions promise to
be long drawn out. Many fresh OBJ
stacles will confront America in her
movement to create an atmosphere of
peace in the Far East. Several weeks
may eIapse before the conference gets
into discussion of Siberia or Russian
interests in the Pacific.
New Tasks on Program.
The armament conference began
the new week today confronted with
tasks far more difficult than those
already accomplished. The first week
cleared the atmosphere and brought
the-confHcting views of the powers 10
the surface; the second brings the as
sembled statesmen face to face with
the more difficult job of reconciling
those widely divergent views.
While the naval experts and the po-
litical authorities of the Far East are
thus engaged. the question of land
armamerfts may be laid away for an
indefinite rest this week after Aristide
BRAND, the brilliant premier of
France, explains to waiting world
maintain the largest standing army in
Europe.
Naval Program Goes Forward.
If the matter of land armaments
were shelved at the present confer
ence, the powers could then devote
their entire time to the main pur-
poses of the meeting-limitatio of
naval armament and the adjustment
of Chinese and Far Eastern affairs.
But little opposition is to be expected
if France formally places before the
meeting a request that the question
be laid away.
The adjustment of the capital ship
ratio of 5-5-3 is proceeding "satisfac-
torily." according to spokesmen for
the American delegation. japanese
opposition to be relegated to a so per
cent basis has not entirely disap-
peared, but the confident belief was
expressed today by authoritative
American sources that this opposition
would be finally overcome this week.
Great Britain's acceptance of the ratio
has never been in question, or in
doubt. 1t is only in the matter of
auxiliary ships. submarines and cruis-
ers. that the British have found fault
with the American program.