Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-28

u'scuss matters which lie within a
Wei!-ieiined field and will not climb
over nor crawl under the fence which
marks its boundaries.
II is certain that the Far Eastern
problems viii be taken up first for
solution. There are maly of these
problems and until they are solved no
adequate plan can be made for a linn
itatlon OF the national ornaments. The
ar East supplies more difficult fac
'oTs Tor the problem of arms limita-
uon than Europe itself. although to-
day the European countries present
many a seemingly dangerous situation.
emma wants its independence OF
foreign control. 1t probably cannot
get II, but there are certain relieving
uhlngs which can be done for China,
ana the chances are that the confer
ence will succeed in doing them The
Chlnese are Asiatics, and so are the
japanese, but except for certain ele-
ments in China the people of the land
DO not like their near neighbors. the
/ Japanese. The desire of the Chinese
Is to get rid of the influence of the
japanese over material things in
CHINA, and to get rid of the like intiu-
ence and control which other nations
nave over Chinese matters.
| 1t is not thought that the spheres
of influence Of the nations in China will
be done away with, either in a mate
rlaF or in a directing sense, but the
chances are that conditions will be
ameliorated to an extent that tempo
rarily at least viii please the Chi
nese.
Japanese May Yield Much.
The Siberian question and the Shan
/ tung question will prove difficult fOl
/ the conference to answer, but it is
said that the japanese are willing to
go further in the way Of yielding than
the world generally would expect to be
the case. The Japanese today occupy
only the coast section of Siberia, but
there they have a firm hold under a
military leader who acts under the
| direction of the military office in
Japan, and pays no attention whatso-
ever to the wishes of the Japanese
foreign office
The military chiefs rule things in
Japan. What they want to have done,
is done. In most foreign countries
military policy follows diplomatic
policy, but in Japan today it seems to
be the other way.
China today is suspicious of every
country on earth except the United
States. This is known. 1t looks TO
this country as a sort Of kindly fos-
/ ter parent who is square dealing and
not given to Punishment of children
even though they are not its own
blood. Actually the Chinese people
are looking to this country to give
them that complete independence
which they seek. If Uncle Sam I'M
dertakes the job all alone he will find
| 1t a taxing one
Anqio-Japa Alliance.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance is one
which some of the nations look upon
as rather ininical 10 their interests,
and this view is taken clearly and
strongly ty China. The japanese do
not want a renewa of the agreement
between the British and the japanese,
and it can be put down as fact,
even though it be a surprising one. that
virtually every Englishman residing in
! China is opposed TO a renewal of the
alliance Of his country with Japan.
The British subjects resident in
China know the feeling of the Chinese
people and they fear boycott Of
English goods of the kind that the
/ Chinese today have in effect against
japanese goods. The Chinese people
are Ioath to apply boycott to Great
Britain, but it is said they may do it
if there is any marked disposition on
the part of the British to be sympa-
thetic with Japan in its Chinese policy.
1t is not thought that the island
of zap will prove stumbling block
! to the success of the coming confer
ence. AS matter of fact, the United
States and Japan have come pretty
close already to a settlement of this
matter. If all the Far East matters
are reduced to a basis of understand
! ing. it is believed in Washington that
great reductions in the ornaments Of
the countries Of the world can be Sc
cured by agreement without much diff
Guilty.
/ There have been rumors from time
to time that the arms conference will
take up such matters as the indebted
ness of one nation to another, and
some other extraneOus things such as
the failures or successes Of the League
of Nations and policies relating to
questions which the league already
has under consideration. II is known
that the administrator does not de-
sire any great broadening Of the field
of discussion. In fact, ii is said rather
! bluntly in Washington that nothing
will be discussed except those things
which were nominated in the original
/ plan.
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