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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
WHO owns CH|NA?'
MUST Be DECIDED
Conference Committee Will
Discuss Many Scattered
Spheres of Influence.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

What is China?" will be the first
question discussed by the conference
committee on far eastern problems now
presented their generalities on that
portion of Asia. The committee must
decide whether it is going to consider
China as it was sixty years ago and
China as it still is looked upon in the
making careful discrimination as to
what portions of 1t have been parti-
toned among other powers what por-
lions are foreign concessions and what
portions are more or less permanent
spheres of influence. The men who
speak for China consider all of the
China of sixty years ago as China to-
day and go so far as to hope for a de-
cision when the foreign entertainments
will terminate.
Great Britain Holdings.
Shantung is the latest of these
acquisitions and the one most fire.
quently mentioned. China, however,
refers as we'll to others more sancti-
Ned by time. and compared to the age
of China, they are quite recent.
Great Britain holds Honskong and
Wei-Hai-Wei: Though Britain prop
ably would be willing to reIinquish
Wei Hei-Wei. she feels differently as
to the island of Hongkong. where
she would prefer to extend her juris-
diction beyond Kowloon on the op-
posite mainland. She also has plans
as to Tibet as a sphere lof influence
at least.
France occupies Indo-Ch with a
well defined sphere Of influence in
funnan province of China proper.
Portugal occupied Macao. which is
little more than a cathedral and
many dilapidated gambling houses,
but is one of the few mites. remain
Ing to that once great colonist nation.
Japan's sphere OF influence.
Japan holds lease on the Lao
tung (kwangtung) peninsula. with
which she does not intend to cancel
even II it is necessary to fight. while
her sphere of influence in Manchu-
ria and outer Mongolia is equally
well defined.
In addition to these definite areas.
all powers maintaining treaty reIa-
ttons with China, including the United
States, have business and residence
concessions exempt from Chinese
jurisdiction in the largest treaty port
cities and enjoy extra territorial
rights through the republic.
In south China, the Canton govern
ment firmly holding the rich prov
troll over more than half the old en-
pire. requires a further definition of
What is Gilman" This is the pro-
gressive part of China, closely re-
lated to the United States by emf
grafton and teaching. men with short
and requires consideration If the con-
ference Is to assist Gina toward a
permanent settlement Of her internal
troubles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
FRIENDSHIP IS VITAL.
Lord Riddell Says Future Of World
Rests on q. S.-British Relations,

America and Great Britain must take
the lead in ending wars, Lord Riddell,
representing the press Of England at
the arms conference. told a large audi
byterian Church last night.
1.-THE future welfare Of the world"
he said. depends not SO much on the
scrapping Of navies, nor the limitation
of land ornaments as it does on the
America"
Lord RiddeIl. VINO is a close friend
Of Lloyd George and has been a fire.
Quent visitor to the home Of the great
English statesman. drew picture Of
the premier's family life.
The publisher represents the News
paper Proprietors' Association Of Great
Britain and 1t 10 through. him that Eng
lish opinions on confsHelfe matters are
Rev. J. Alvin Campbell pastor cf~ths
church, pls9td a a. tue Sss.yiC -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
DISARMAMENT" SUBJECT
OF POEM BY WHITTIER

John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the
following lines many years ago. The
passage is, perhaps, more suggestive
and potential at the present moment
than at any time since Its concep-
ton and, at the suggestion of w.
Burton Benham. 1854 Parkwood place
northwest, they are herewith re-
printed:
DISARMAMENT.
PUT up the sword" The voice Of Christ once
Speaks in the pauses Of the lannon's roar
Der fields Of corn by fiery sickles reaped
And left dry ashes. over trenches heaped
With nameless dead, DER cities starving slow
Under rain Of fre. through wards of woe. :.
Down which q groaning diapason runs
From tortured brothers, husbands, lovers. SONS,
OF desolate women tn their far-on homes,
Waiting to hear the step that never comes!
O men and brothers! lot that voice be heard.
War fails, try peace; put mp the useless
sword! :
"Hate hath no harm for love-" land peace
unweRponed
COnQuerS every wrOng!''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21

What is the 'shantung question:
after all. and what part do Kiaochow
and Tsingtao play in it?'
This question is answered in bull
letin issued from the Washington,
d. c., headquarters Of the National
Geographic Society, as follows:
THE 'Shantung question had Its
genesis when Germany, eager TO COM
pete with other European nations.
which were becoming more and more
important in the far east. determined
to have a port and naval base of her
own on the shores Of northeast China.
It took definite shape when. in 1897,
two German missionaries were killed
in teeming Shantung, most densely
poplated and economically and SEN
timentally one of the most important
of China:s provinces. By way of in
Identifying herself for the loss of her
nationals Germany forced China to
grant her a ninety-nine-year lease
on an area roughly ten or twelve
miles in diameter on the coast OF
Shantung at the entrance to kiao-
chow bay. and to neutralize a zone
thirty-three miles wide, skirtinS the
entire bay and including the leased
region. On the leased plot the Ger
mans built a typical German town,
Tsingtao.
Germany Expands Holdings.
The leased and neutral zones To-
gether comprise a relatively small
part Of the $4,000 square miles OF
Shantung. So far as area is concerned,
it is. very roughly. as though Virginia.
Maryland and Delaware were substi-
tuted for Shantung. the District OF
Columbia for Tsingtao. and, for the
neutral Kiaochow territory, fan
shaped area Of Maryland counties with
a radius equaIipg the distance between
Uyo oh
when this most stubborn of far
eastern questions first emerged, with
Germany and China as the chief par
ties concerned. seemed to be only
chow INCH raS9RY developed into the
indefinite. but 3oming shantung ell.
were understood. and the later amend
ment of the plans made the problem
still broader. For the agreement in
cluded concessions to build railways
outside the leased and neutral areas,
in Shantung proper. and, coupled with
the railroad CONCESSION, was the right
to exploit mines in zones twenty miles
wide traversed by the railroads.
The 255-mile railway line from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
HY ALEXANDER BROZ.
(Attache OF the Czechoslovak legation in
Londop)

(Attache OF the Czechoslovak legation in
London)
(epecial Correspondence of The Star and Chi
cago Daily News.)
LONDON. October 30.-Many people
readily believe the Magyar propagan-
dists who assert that the Czechs con-
slider Slovakia as an annexed province.
that the Czechs have broken the agree
ment. according to which Slovakia was
to receive autonomy: that it is not GER
tain whether the Slovaks wish to re-
main within the Czechslovak state.
1t is worth while. therefore, to re-
call that neither the Czechs nor the
Slovaks demanded separate inGe-
pendence; they demanded independ-
ence for the Czechoslovaks. All the
Slovak local national councils. to the
number of over 100, which were form
Hapsburg empire. Identified them
selves with the declaration issued on
October 80 by the central Slovak
national to the effect that the Slo-
walks regarded themselves as an in
tegral part Of the Czechoslovak ma
ton.
In view of these facts. therefore. it
Is neither accurate nor just to say that
the Czechs consider Slovakja Is an an
nexed province. or that they deny the
Slovaks their right of self-determina-
ton. for it is precisely because the
Slovaks made use of their right of
self-determination that they are in
the Czechoslovak state. OF course.
there was no plebiscite. but to every
one who knows how the Czechs and
Slovaks struggled and fought in union
during the great war in order to
achieve their independence it must be
obvious. that this was sufficient
proof Of their will as regards their
state allegiance.
Pittsburgh Agreement.
The so-called Pittsburgh agree
ment, or resolution. of which the
Magyars are attempting to make cap
ital in their agitation among the
Slovaks, was arrived at on October 8,
1913. at meeting of representatives
Of the Slovaks in the United States
1t was signed by President Masaryk,
who was then in America. This reso-
luton contained a scheme for the ad-
justment OF the relationship between
the Czechs and Slovaks. However, it
contained no reference to the manner
in which a suitable system of admin
fstration was to be insured upon the
territory of liberated Slovakia, the
aim of the American Slovaks being
to assure the future autonomous
status of Slovakia within the Czecho-
elovak state
Slovakia, however. actually possess
es an autonomy. since it has min
about its own affairs. In accordance
with the principles of the constitu-
ton, the whole republic is divided
into twenty autonomous areas. six of
which compose Slovakia. These areas
will be administered by the Slovaks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
Today
GERMANY'S DESIRE FOR BASE
LED TO SFIANTUNG PROBLEM
Selling Missionaries Staying as Pretext
Lease at Kiaochow Forced, to Be Fol-
lowed by Spread Through Province.

Shantung. was opened in 1904 When
in 1914 Japan announced that she
would support Great Britain's in
tao the Chinese wished to send
troops to make the attack a concerted
affair. but we're dissuaded. When
Japan had stormed the town and
taken it from the Germans the
Chinese considered the matter mere
ly grew into a 'ShantuDg question
again when secret treaties were dis
closed whereby Japan had obtained
more than a year before the peace
conference the engagements Of Great
Britain. France, Russia and Italy to
support Japanese claims to all priv
ileges which Germany had acquired
in Shantung. Although the Chinese
delegates protested that when their
country entered the war against Ger
many and abrogated all treaties with
the latter the territories and conces-
sions automatically reverted to
China. the Paris council followed the
secret treaties and provided in the
treaty of Versailles for the transfer of
all rights formerly belonging to Ger
many in Shantung, to Japan. The
Chinese refused to sign the treaty:
and there the matter may be said to
rest, though it has since been the sub
ject of almost ceaseless diplomatic
discussion.
Is China's Holy Land.
Most of the coast of Shantung is
rough, but within this minor barrier
much of the province is plains coun
try with unending fiel6s of beans and
kaoliang, a kind of grain sorghum.
The level sections of the province are
traversed by the great Yellow river.
which periodically mandates the
country; and the Grand canal,
waterway second in Importance as
commerce carrier only to the Yang
tsze-kiang.
Near the central part Of Shantung
rises Tai-Shan, the highest and most
famous Of the five sacred mountains
of China A short distance to the
south of the mountain is a little town
VI hich probably ranks as the most
venerated spot in all China, the birth
place and burial place of Confucius.
one of the worlds greatest religious
teachers. To both Tai-Shan and the
grave of Confucius at Chow-fu thou
sands of pilgrims journey annually.
The presence of these sacred spots
raises Shantung sentimentally above
the other provinces. They transmute
it into the Chinese Holy Land"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
MAY BUY OLD SHIPS NOW.
Henry Ford Heed Not Wait on
Scrapping Program to Get Steel.

II Henry Ford Of Detroit wants to
buy warships for the steel theS con-
tain he need not wait for the scrap
ping of the battleships proposed by
Secretary Hughes in THE interests of
peace. as a choice lot of old naval ves-
sells are to be offered for sale to the
highest bidder at the Washington navy
yard December Is next.
The list includes the cruiser Brook
Ign. Admiral Schley's flagship at the
battle of Santiago bay; the cruiser Co
lumbia, once the pride of the Navy; the
cruiser Memphis, the monitors Puritan.
Miantonomoh. Ozark and Tonopah and
several naval yachts. transports and
freight ships. These vessels have been
condemned as obsolete for naval pur-
poses. They are in various parts of
the country, but the bids for their pur-
chase for industrial purposes will be
opened at the local navy yard on the
date named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
Delegates Problem Today
FLAGS At "DISTRESS"
IN HONOR OF FOREIGN
ARMS DELEGATES

Several establishments located
on important thoroughfares of
Washington are unconsciously fly
ing flags Of distress" in the case
of the display OF foreign flags in
honor OF the delegates to the
armament limitations conference.
The Dutch and Chinese f1aga in
many instances. are being flown
upside down.
According to the legations Of
these countries, the Dutch flag
should be flown with the red at
the top, and the Chinese with the
crimson as the first color. Japan
has two flags, one Of a white field
and red sun in the center. which
is the merchantmen, and the other
with red sun in the middle of the
flag. with red rays projecting to
all corners of the white field. This
Is the "man-o'- war" flag. OF the
two. according to authority, the
merchantmen is the one most
widely used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
BARON SHIDEHARA BETTER
Though Improved, Ambassador Is
Still Confined to Bed.

Baron Kijuro Shidehara. ambassador
from Japan and one of the empires
plenipotentianies to the conferences
was still confined to his bed by illness
at his residence, 1921 K street north
west, and unable to attend today's
open session. Masanao Hanihara. vice
minister of foreign affairs in Toxic,
is temporarily occupying Baron Shide-
hara's place in the conference. Ac-
cording to Capt. NASH Kojima.
the naval surgeon Wild is attached to
the delegation. Baron Shidehara's
fever. which reached a temperature
above 102 Saturday, was slightly
moderated today. His ailment has
been diagnosed as acute gastritis and
enteritis.
Though there was some relief from
the abdominal pain on the left side
today, the attending surgeon said that
probably several days rest will be
necessity before the baron can re-
sumo his official duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
Ten Thousand Persons at Funeral
Of Alderman Barry in Cork.

CORK, November 21.-Ten thousand
persons attended the funeral Of AL
derman Barry yesterday, who was
shot and killed while leaving the Bal
lykinlaf camp recently. The cortege
was three miles long and included
thousands of volunteers and eight
grave.
Bishop Cohalan and eighty Of his cler~
gy attended the funeral. as well as q
representative of canon de Valera:
with the lord mayors Of Dublin and
Limerick and many members Of the
dali cream.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
1853" RATIO ENDORSED
BY ENGLAND, ACCORDING
TO CURRENT REPORTS
By. the AssOciated press,

BY Tue ASSOclHteU TfeBG.
As an aftermath of the Saturday
conference between Secretary
Hughes, Mr. Balfour and Admiral
Kato, it was learned on highest
authority that Great Britain has
Endorsed without reservation the
$3.50" ratio proposed in the
American naval Limitation plan,
qualifying her acceptance as one
.'in principle" only because Of her
desire to propose modification of
the submarine and replacement
feature.
This conference also was said in
authoritative Japanese circles to
have cleared the air" of many
misunderstood points and to have
added to the confidence that an
-ntual accord would be reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
FRENCH sHIPYARDs SOLD,
Buildings Costing Over 2,O0O, 600
Purchased at Auction for $S5, 100.

NEW ORLEANS. La. November Il.
The buildings of the Foundation
shipyards here. erected and equipped
by the French government, in 1917. at
a cost Of more than two million dol
lars, were sold at auction today for
$35,100. The oliver H. vanhorn Ma
chinery Company of New Orleans
was the purchaser.
The yards were to produce q new
type Of so-calied unsinkabie ship.
Five of these crafts were launched
and are in operation now as tankers.
Subsequent to the armistice, France
found the venture Improbable and
ordered the plant disposed Of. For
several days auctions of equipment
have been in progress. although the
total obtained from all the sales Is
placed at less than $4,000.
Besides the Vanhofn Company, the
only other bidder today was L Gold
man Of Chattanooga. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
SUNDAY" RECALLED
Anniversary Masses Held in Many
Churches in Dublin.

ny ING N3sUCI1teU Pfesd.
DUBLIN. November 21.-The ami
versary of bloody Sunday" was cele-
brated in many Of the churches by
masses for the repose Of the souls Of
the victims. There was =, a procession
which paraded the square of the city
and then went to Glasnevin cemetery
to decorate the graves Of those who
fell during the disorders
1t was one year ago when a number
of military men and auxiliary police
officers were killed during the morn
ing hours ard there were reprisals
during the afternoon at a foot ball
game in Croke Park, where there
were numerous casualties. 1t was
also on this day year ago that three
Irish prisoners were shot and killed
while endeavoring to make their
escape from Dublin Castle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
aERMAN ENVOY AT PANAMA.

PANAMA, November 20--Wilhelm
Erythropol, former German minister to
Salvador, has arrived to assume his
new post Of minister. to Panama and
the Federation Of Central American Re-
publics. He win present his credsn-
tialS shortly. - :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
R|0T|NG IN BELFAST
STREETS RENEWED
One Dead After Clash of
Rivals Early Today-Many
Injured Sunday.
By the Associated Press,

BELFAST. November 21.-One man
was killed and another was wounded
in a renewal today Of the rioting
which broke out in the Seaford dis
trict in East Belfast yesterday when
rival factions clashed. Four persons
were sent to hospitals and numerous
others were slightly injured in yes
terday's disturbance.
Today's recurrence Of the trouble
was met promptly by the authorities
and the situation was speedily brought
under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
URGED TO REGISTER.
Unemployed Veterans Asked to Re
port to n. D. Boyer, Chairman.

port to II. D. Boyer, Chairman.
Unemployed veterans of the world
war are requested to register with
Harrison D. Boyer, chairman Of the
unemployment committee of the Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars, at 1907 F
street northeast, in a statement is
sued today.
The, statement added: "All firms,
corporations or individuals In need Of
help OF any kind are asked to get In
touch with the chairman Of the COM
mfttee, who will send mon qualified to
fill the vacant position. The veterans
are not seeking charity, but ask for
a chance 10 earn their; living" -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
;NR. MELLON AND BROTHER GIVE
UNIVERSITY SI,5O0OOO IN LAND

it was to be used for the uni
versity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21

Seaweed has lately been found to
gelatin OF a very high quail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21

CORTEGE THREE MILES LONG
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-31
LADYFLNGERS
BY JACKSON GREGORY
COPYRIGHT, 1917, by Charles scrtbner,s SONG

acHE squared herself" lie spoke
Osoftly, as though to himself, and
,bcre we're tears in his eyes. "Shc paid
;n full. And seem escape
having at all 1t is unfair!"
"You have made restitution as fa,
os nossiblc y"
'WHh money, ycs," he admitted bit
,crIy. with money which you gave
me-.
"Robcrt," she admonishcd him, 'you
are young very, very young. I haven't
bccn so young rs you are for something
like a hundred years, / think. Also,
vou may have a liver. You go take n
GOOD long walk. See Enid just as soon
as God'll let you. And, If she'll let
YOU. bring her to dinner tonight
This morning he made himself sand
vich the belatGd twin to that memoir
obc sandwich which he had taken ad =
vcuturing with him upon Il certain his
torc first of May, and struck out across
tbr fields toward the foothills. And in
tbo woods, where first he had come
mon Enid Camden, he spent the long
0uipt hours during which he must wait
to see her, lying for the most part upon
his back, staring up at stirring branches
and patches of blue sky.
He was going to see Enid. About
this almighty fact his thoughts clung all
nv. sometimes wandering backward
EUChng upon other days with her
Eomctimes daring to leap forward
rcarching out the future but always re-
turning to this: lie was going to see
Enid
Recognizing in love the great master
who has written fire into the human
comedy. the boy accepted his line,
eagerly; cast in the role of young ycarn.
ing he was playing his part with the
ardor Of his nature, seeing in it, n
does each one of us, IL thing created
for him alone. God knows the drama
is older than the dust upon which the
Sphinx was buildcd Love knows it il
etcrnally as new and fresh and fragran
as blossoming vioets. Robert StCthcri
knew that in the world were man!
things desirable. but nothing so to b,
desired as a girl.
In the beginning she had touched hi
leaning fnnCics with the physical charm
of her rare beauty. He had never seer
anything SO beautiful. In his youni
poets soul nothing stood higher thar
nerfeCt lOyelineSS.
The Washington times., 1921-04-17
Carl T. Thoner's
Action Photographs Always
Tell the Whole Story

"The Camera Man because he
uncanny making just the right shot at the right time and
usually little better than any other shot taken
kind to hnplacng him the spot to his lightning
fast at the psychological moment
He will have many distinctive pictures in this Sunday
"Ie's Not Lucky--its just talent"
The Washington times., 1921-04-17
Suburban News IN Plentitude
IS TO BE FOUND
ON THESE PAGES
IS TO BE FOUND
ON THESE PAGES

greatly augmented staff of special writers and correspondents equip
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keep you thoroughly and completely informed the
penng in this territory.
The Washington times., 1921-04-17
Today
BY Arthur Brisbane
The Highest-Paid Editor in the World.

inimtable refreshing imulatye comment
happenings throughout the world and human general
that different
makes you think. you point of view makes
you useful to yourself and your community.
Brisbane writes he dwelt the mountain tops and highly
amused at the wggngs squrmings and antics of the whole
huma family down in the valley.