Evening star., 1921-12-05
MANY CONCESSIONS
MADE BY POWERS
Prevention of Encroachmerts
on Siberia Still 70 Be
Discussed.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
All of Questions May Not Be
Finally Determined at
Conference.
TWOFOLDPURPOSE SHOWN
BY LEROY T. VERNON,

American delegates to the Confer
-ence on the limitation of armament
appear to have four prime objectives
in mind in presenting the American
point of view relative to far eastern
questions. They are:
l. Restoration of the, territorial
and administrative integrity of China.
of which Shantung forms an out
standing problem.
.. The framing of a practical def
milton of the "open door," which
leads directly to q consideration of
Manchuria and to an Interpretation of
the Ishii-LansinE agreement.
3. Prevention of encroachments on
Siberia. thereby maintaining the at
titude of a trnsteeship by the confer
ence over Russia's interests as
promised by Secretary Hughes an
nouncement last September.
!. Abrogation of the British Jap
paneSe alliance.
Substantial Progress Made.
Under the leadership of the Amcri-
can delegation and following closely
the agenda of the conference, as pre-
pared by the American government.
substantial progress has already been
made toward the restoration of China
tcSrity. One by one the heterogeneous
upon China's sovereignty are being
considered by the conference. Even
the Shantung question, after months
of pickering between China and ia
pan, has been brought within the
purview of the conference to the ex-
tent that negotiations have been
started between Japan and China
under the auspices of Great Britain
and the United States, and notable
concessions have been made and are
in the process of being made. not
only with respect to Shantung. but as
to leased territory in general.
Open Door Differentiated.
Differentiated from the mere ques-
ton of leased territory is the ques-
ton of the open door" in Manchuria,
in which Japan has claimed special
interests as stated in the lansing
lshii agreement. 1t will be recalled
that when that agreement was first
presented to the American govern
inent by Mr.. Ishii it contained the
phrase paramount interests" to
which Secretary Lansing refused to
ing's contention that the word pro
pinquity." relating to Japan's near
ness 10 Manchuria, alone gave Japan
special interests in Manchuria, and
that under this Interpretation the
recognition of Japan's economic in
terests in Manchuria might be in
Guided, but nothing more The real
question involved in the "open door,
in Manchuria is the restoration of
China,s complete sovereignty and the
abolition of Determinations which
cannot be avoided when more than
mere economic rights are enjoyed by
one nation in that territory Japan's
right to recognition of her economic
rights in Manchuria are not denied
Two-Fold Purpose.
In the Siberian question the Amer
lean policy has the two-fold purpose
OF protecting both Russian and Chi
nese rights. Political chaos in Rus
sia and Siberia has. for the moment,
thrown open that section Of the world
to the same dangers which China has
. experienced in the past, and possess
sion of the Russian Pacific littoral
together with the eastern Chinese
railway would strengthen any ma
-tion's strategic hold on Manchuria
and Mongolia. To pursue such a
policy to it's logical conclusion seems