The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-25
BY HENRY wOODHOUsE.


an additional menace to American
interests on the Pacific,.is revealed
by newly discovered evidence which
shows that Japan il involved In other
secret treaties and agreements with
European nations that are much
more dangerous to American in
terests than the Anglo-Japanese
treaty.
The fact is that, unknown to the
American public, a situation fraught
with grave dangers Is shaping it.
self on the Pacific due to these
secret treaties and agreements en-
tered into between Japan, Great
Britain and other nations.
These affect matters in which the
United States is vitality interested.
and which must be considered by
the American people at this time,
while the matter Of ratifying the
four-power Pacific treaty and the
zap treaty is being considered by
the United States Senate.
Peril In Secret Pacts.
These secret treaties and agree
ments are in addition to the secret
Anglo Japanese treaty much dis
cussed of late. Therefore the claims
that the abrogation of the Anglo
Japanese treaty settles the Pacific
question must be regarded as dan
gerous propaganda, sort OF smoke
screen designed to hide the real
dangers that win threaten the United
States safety and welfare II 1t &C
cepts the proposal to limit the Pa
cific defenses and reduce the navy
before this impending menace Is
eliminated.
The AnRlo-Japanese treaty re-
garding the Far East appears COM
paratively harmless compared with
the fact that Japan has signed
and is a party to numerous Euro.
pean treaties, including the oil
treaties" of the Near East.
These treaties and agreements
are interlOcking and entirely NULL
fy, SO far as Japan Is concerned,
any moral obligation to respect the
rights of the United States In the
regions Of the Pacific Ocean that
may be interpreted into article OF
the proposed Horsepower treaty,
leaving no excuse for this treaty
in SO far as the United States Is
concerned.
To fully understand the dangers
to the United States, one must con-
culiar code Of establishing absolute
monopolies where they have the
slightest claims or excuses to work
on.
For instance, in the zap Island
case, the Japanese, having occupied
zap, brushed aside the American re-
quests to internationalize zap and
make 1t an international mid-Pacific
cable and radio terminus. They dis
regarded the fact that zap was ex-
cepted from the proposed Pacific
mandates by the League Of Nations
and paid no attention to the United
States reservations and the Allied
nations right to a vbte in deciding
what should be done with zap.
When the United States advanced
it's claim to the right to use zap
as a Pacific cable terminus Japan
answered that the laws Of Japan
forbid the landing Of foreign cables
on Japanese soil.
Pacific Mandates.
Another instance is to be found
in the case of the Pacific mandates,
Japan took for granted that because
the United States did not become a
member of the League of Nations
the United States rights regarding
the former German islands in the
North Pacific were abrogated, and
the United States did not become a
Japanese mandate zone which, with
the zone covered with Japanese pos
sessions, forms a barrier extending
from Kamchatka in the north to the
Equator and cuts off from the
United States the Isle of Guam, the
Philippines, China, and the Far
East.
Under the peculiar Japanese point
of view, japan seems inclined to
assume dictatorial powers in that
zone of the North Pacific covered
by the self -awarded mandates.
Japan's swiftness in attacking the
Russian fleets at Chemulpo and
Port Arthur and landing Japanese
troops at Chemulpo in 1904 within
forty-eight hours after withdrawing
the Japanese minister from the Rus
sian capital, thus beginning the
Russo-Japanese war, gives a signifi-
cant example of Japan's aptitude to
embark on sudden military opera
tons when she sees prospects of
gain.
At the time Japan wanted Russia
to recognize Japan's interest in
Korea in exchange for Japan recog.
nizing Russia's interest in Man
churia. AT the end of seven months
of negotiations Russia refused.
Japan, without serving an ulti-
matum, started to fight
Then, in drafting the Port Arthur
treaty. the Japanese delegates told
Theodore Roosevelt that Japan
would adhere to the open-door prin.