New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Maturing Plans for SoIu-
ton of Pacific Issues
Temporarily Upset by
Sees Unexpected Coup
Problem Scheduled
For Council To-day
Questions Between u. s.
and Japan Near Adjust
ment, Officials Report
By Carter Field


WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-China
to-day took the Conference on the
Limitation of Armament by surprise
pushed naval armament limitation
and restriction of land armies, for
the moment, into the background,
and concentrated attention on her
own case.
Briefly, the Chinese proposals in
clude demand for a promise by the
conference to restore and observe
her territorial and administrative
integrity, her own agreement not to
lease territory to any power and to
apply the open door to all parts of
China, and demand that all special
privileges claimed in China shall be
announced by the powers and then
considered by the conference.
Not only did the Chinese rather
upset an orderly consideration of the
Pacific and Far Eastern questions
behind the closed doors of the COM
mittee on that subject, which con-
sists OF every delegate to the confer
ence, but they made their appeal to
the world by the simple expedient of
giving their demands to the press.
Tonight, following the conclusion
OF the first days session of the Pa
cific and Far Eastern committee. it
was made known that the case of
China would be taken up tomorrow.
and study Of it given temporarily. at
least right of way over the other
Pacific and Far Eastern questions.
Coup Is Not Welcomed
Actually, the Chinese maneuver
was not pleasant surprise for any
one involved. 1t is perfectly obvious
that the Pacific and Far Eastern
questions have been working rapidly
toward solution which, although it
is admitted by those concerned will
not be ideal or everything that the
United States would like to have.
would nevertheless go long ,yay
toward insuring peace between the
Pacific nations, particularly the
United States and Japan, for many
years to come.
The Chinese blast, it was asserted
tonight by those in close touch with
the situation, would not actually an
danger the understanding which has
been under way. but there is no doubt
that 1T will have the effect of making
1t harder to achieve, and particularly
that 1T may result in less public satia-
faction in the United States over the
final outcome of the conference.
There is nothing really surprising in
the fact that an understanding az TO
the Pacific and Far Eastern questions
is in sight, in view Of the long series
of conferences which Secretary Hushe.
and Ambassador Shidehara have held
in the months preceding the confer
ence.
There has been rapidly shaping up in
the last few days, however, an agree
ment on other of the Pacific questions.
which it had been feared would provo
stumbling blocks, not only to the solu-
tion Of the controversies between
America and Japan, but to any plan
which might be worked out for the
limitation Of armament.
Japan's Supremacy Not Shaken
Two great big facts stand out IN
! this connection. One is that under the
! program of naval armament limitation
| as laid down by Mr.. Hughes, or any
reasonable modification of it, Japan is
left supreme in the Far East.
The second is that Japan, according
to information which has reached the
American delegation, has agreed to
evacuate Siberia entirely.
Japan will be left supreme in the
Far East by the American naval limita-
tion program, because the very essence
of the thing is that there is to be no
warfare between that country and the
United States or Great Britain. Also.
her army, which has demonstrated
itself as very efficient, is left un-
diminished. On the contrary, Japan,
by the terms of the naval agreement.
| will be left with a much larger sum
to spend on her army than she hither-
to has been able to afford.
Thus japan attains at once not only
the position of dominating force which
she has always desired to exercise in
the Far East. At the same time what
some of her people have always re-
garded as the menace from across the
Pacific is removed.
| Not Insistent nm Forta
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