Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-14
JAPAN SEES
LOSING SIDE OF
ARMS SESSION
Official Claims Islands Fail to
Realize Desires at
Conference.

TOXIC, Jan. 14-Tokio enters the new
group of world powers, the four power
agreement, with her public leaders and
her press hardly cordially accepting the
new state Of things. For two weeks after
the acceptance of the agreement opinion
in Toxic had been that Japan's dele
gates, placed in a peculiar situation, Sc
cured the very best they could that is
all Whether or not the delegates re-
turning to Toxic will be the objects Of
open criticism by the people and the
press is not known; certainly there will
be criticism mixed with whatever praise
is given out.
SAY JAPAN LOSES
ON EVERY POINT.
Japan has lost on practically every
point in the conference. il we take the
accomplishments OF the moment as the
final benefit or loss that Japan is to re-
ceive. First. on the zap question she
has conceded certain things to the United
States, concessions which she said would
not be yielded under any circumstances.
Secondly, she has Abandoned the 70 per
cent ratio and has yielded to what Japan
said she would never yield. namely, the
American plan for the disarmament pro-
cedureS Finally. the Aqgio-Japanese al
liance. which IS regarded by many as the
greatest weapon which Japan had for
the carrying on Of whatever program she
had in the Orient. has been abandoned,
and an agreement which few understand
satisfactorily has been put in its place
And yet I say that Japan, IN the final
consideration, may be said to have ad
vanced the cause Of the japanese EN-
pire by the proceedings Of the Wash
Ington conference.
Coming into a new grouping, recog-
nized as a power dedicated now to the
maintenance Of peace rather than the
wagiug Of militaristic plans, Japan has
won a moral victory. She is placed to-
day in the light OF q nation understood.
one which can take her place In tine
economic fight which may follow ana IN
All other world schemes FEELING that her
position is not the defensive, but rather
that she Will be looked upon fairly by
other countries. This moral victory while
rather dlmmed as yet because or a lack
Of the proper understanding, will be-
come increasingly plain each year.
PRESS FAILS TO APPROVE
FOUR-POWER AGREEMENT
Nowhere In the press may there be
said to be 8 whole hearted approval Of
the four power agreement The Hochi,
a newspaper rnnded pY Marquis OKuma
who was comE,vAly considered q mem
Der Of the Genro, Of the silent Rulers
Of Japan." under the heading might Is
Right" thus describes the founding Of
the four-power agreement:
1.-THE conference has, after all, been
stage where the United State has been
able to play a piece Of music entitled
Might Is Right, with Britain as ner
accompanies No principle Of justice has
been recognized at all. The japanese
people can remember that before the
conference opened there was much sym
pathy expressed for the Japanese sur
plus population. Today there seems to
be no thught Of this problem"
The Osaka MainicAi, which is a really
representative newspaper, says:
considering that the scope Of the en-
tente IS extremely limited, with but mega
tive virtue in It's direct bearing on the
international situation, We must ask the