The Washington times., 1922-10-08
FORCES To TOP
IN NEW SCHOOL
Of DIPLOMACY
Succession of Far East Parleys
Designed to Evade DIS
armament Pledges.
NIPPON FEARS BOLSHEvIKl
Possible Russian Alliance With
China Chief Dread OF
Mikado's Advisers.
BY Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
ARTICLE /.

tion Mark" OF the past ten years,
promises to become the 1nterna-
tional EXCLAMATION Point" Of
the decade ahead.
No longer is Japan the student
of occidental diplomacy. Rather
has the Imperial japanese gov
ernment forged its way to the
head of the class in that new
school of foreign policy which
seeks the rewards of successfully
prosecuted wars through the
more refined channels of inter-
national conferences.
War Seeds Being SOwn.
Seeds of an Asiatic war are
being sown today in the Fastening
succession of conferences. semi-con'
ferences, and the more or less
frantic efforts to eject alliances
and trade agreements between
Russia. Japan. China and the Far
Eastern Republic of Siberia. on
the sidelines is that indeterminalle,
but all important entity, Man
churia. whose administration Is at
present in the hands Of Chang Iso
Lin, the Manchurian war lord. Ihe
Peking Government. on the other
hand, has refused to recognize the
fndepcnderce of the Manchurlan
province. insignificant as FACTOR
at the conference tables but or
inestimable Importance in the mat
ter Of putting conference programs
into effect is Korea.
In the wake of the great dis
armament conference at Washing
ton last year, where the island
empire pledged herself. through n"r
responsible representatives. to retire
her armies from all Russian soll'
there have been a half dozen con-
ferences in the Far East. brought
about at the instigation OF the
Japanese government, to render
less keen the finely ground edge OF
her solemn pledge at Washington.
The Four Main Parleys.
or these conferences four ara OF
predominal Importance. Each was
preliminary to the next. All are
pregnant with possibilities of sur
passing import not alone to Asiatic
peoples but to Americans as well.
These four conferences were held at
Dairen Dalny) in the Liao-Tung
peninsula, at NladiVostock IN
Primorsk. at Chang Chun tWwan'
Cheng-Ts in Manchuria.
The Darien conference was called
tust prior to the convening of the
Washington arms conference last
November and continued in session
almost three months after the
Washington conference adjourned.
At the Dairen conference table were
the representatives of japan and
the Far Eastern Republic OF
Siberia.
The conference was to every
intent and purpose Japanese
bluff. 1t served as convenient
repository for such questions as
Japan feared might arise at the
Washington conference in ronnec-
tion with the Japsnese occupation
Of Siberia. The conference ended
. fiat failure as the Japanese in
tended II should.
The Vladivostok conference was
convened early last June with the
object Of effecting a trade agreement
between Japan and the Far Eastern
(Chita) government of Siberia. The
conference went on the rocks when
the Japanese demanded as an unal-
terable condition Of effecting trade
relations with the Chita government
financial satisfaction, or indemnity,
for the slaughter Of 600 Japanese at
Nikolayevsk in 1920.
The Chang .Chun Parleys.
The first Chang. .Chun conference
convened Immediately after the
Vladivostok conference adjourned. At
that council table were the repre-.
sentatives of the Chinese Eastern
railway and the South Manchurian
railway. Inasmuch as the South
Manchurian railway is operated and
controlled by the japanese govern.
ment and its agents, while the Chi
nese Eastern railway Is owned by
China. with considerable French
holdings and weighed down with
Russian influence, the Japanese
naturally emerged as victors from
the conference. 1t resulted in dis.
criminatory rates preferential to the
Manchurian road.
The second Chang. g.Chun confer.
ence was called TO meet on Septem.
Der last and continued in session
under a hostile cloud for three weeks,
when II adjourned temporarily pend.
ing receipt of further instructions
from Moscow and Tokyo. The con.
ference was attended by representa-
tives of the Russian Soviet, the Far
Eastern republic OF Siberia and
Japan. At this writing the confer.
ence at Chang -Chun had not recon.
yened. 1t took adjournment on Sep
tember 20, when Adolph Joffe, the
Soviet representative from Moscow,
served an ultimatum upon the Japa.
nese representatives informing them
that no trade agreements or under.
standings Of any sort could be ef-
fected between Russia and japan
until the imperial Japanese govern.
ment withdrew its armed forces from
northern Sakhalin (Saghalien). The
Russians refused definitely, and
finally to recompense the Japanese
government for the slaughter OF the
600 Japanese at Nikoayevsk in 1920.
Joffe pointed out that the Russians
lost more than 1000 OF their own
men in the same engagement, and
claimed that Russia Is in a position
to demand a greater indemnity than
that sought by Japan.
And now there Is heard tho re.