Evening star., 1921-08-14
FAR EAST PROBLEMS
NOW GET LIMELIGHT
Some of the Questions Which Will Be Dis
cussed at Disarmament Conference
in Washington.

tor Johnson. ARE domestic problems
which thee United States should not.
and 1 believe will not. submit to any
International conference
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,,
chairman Of the foreign relations
committee, while expressing no opin-
ION as to what may or may not be
considered at the coming conference,
agreed that the question of immig gra-
tion exclusion had hitherto always
been held in this country to be a
strictly domestic issue and one that
would not be submitted to an inter-
national conference. This was true
curing the debate in the Senate on
the versailles treaty and the league
OF nations. 1t was one of the talking
points against the entry of the United
states into, the league.
Yap Looms ON Horizon.
ihe little island of Yap, home of
the stone money and primitive
race, and also a cable center for the
Iar east looms up as another of the
facihc problems that may be-and
probably will be-discussed when the
delegates of Japan, Great Britain,
france and Italy meet in Washing
ton November IL. The United States
mas not been satisfied that Janan
should dominate Yap and it's cable
connections. 1t has insisted that the
island should be internationalized.
What bearing the conference will
have on the future of the Anglo
Japanese alliance is, of course, prob
lematical. 1t may have a very vital
influence in the continuation or dis
continuation of that alliance. The
question Of the continuance of this
alliance was considered in London at
the imperial conference last June
But no decision was reached, and the
alliance was automatically renewed
for one year. The issue is still
pending.
There is no question but what the
Anglo-Japanese alliance is regarded
in some quarters in this country as
a menace to the United States. In
China the alliance is regarded as an
agreement under which England and
Japan stand together for the exploit
tation of territory in the far east.
particularly China. On the other
hand. If the Anglo-Japanese alliance
is allowed to fall by the wayside, and
no solution, Of the problems Of the
Pacffic" is reached at the conference
'lere in November. then it is likely
that Japan and China will be thrust
more closely together. Certainly
this will be the case If Japan has its
way, it is said.
For an Asiatic League.
At present China is in rather a
chaotic state, to say the least, with
its northern and southern govern
ments. and some of the provinces of
the huge country organizing a third
government. In the south the repub-
lfcans have chosen DIR. Sun Yat-Sen
president. The Peking government
of the north is headed by Premier
Chin. But the military governors of
the northern provinces. it is said.
dominate China and the government
of the north. The restoration of
monarchy in China, with the over
throw of Sun Yat-Sen and the uni
fication of the country would please
Japan undoubtedly and aid in the
plan of some of the Japanese at least,
for a kind of Asiatic league of ma
tions. with Japan and China as the
principal members.
1t is going to be difficult to deal
with Japan's ambitions regarding
China, it is feared. How. it is said,
will it be possible for Great Britain
and France, sitting at the same con-
ference table. to say to japan, Get
out of China" when those two nations
have their own spheres of influence in
the ancient country. 1t is hardly con-
ceivable that Great Britain will vol
UNFAIRLY relinquish her footing in
China or that France will agree to
get out Yet Japan's moves into the
territory of China have been taken
with just the same degree of right as
were those of the European nations
the right Of force.
Great Britain's possessions in the
far east, notably Australia and New
Zealand, and also South Africa, are
greatly interested in the coming con-
ference on the problems of the Pacific, |
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