The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
LAPS SEEKING FRIENDSHIP
 OF CHINA
Jingoes Would Heal Old Sore With Alliance Talk-But Conservatives Differ.
Staff
By JAMES MCLEAN, International News Service Sta
 Correspondent,

correspondent.
 Tokio, Sept. 23.-Since the Wash her old militaristic policy of Ipredom- ination in China elements in this country have been unable to agree as to what course should be followed in peaceful commercial penetration. The old plan of military control fol- lowedf by commercial expansion has been discarded; the Powers of the world, particularly the United States, refufsed to sanction it. and in addi- ton, there was a good1y wing of Japanese liberals who disappr owed it. Now peaceful cooperation with China in the Far East, wherein Ja- sources and secure much-needed raw materials, or a hostile China are available to Japan.
 Seek Friendly China.
 There can be no question as to which Japan seeks, for a hostile China means that when that 1ong-ex- pected day comes China will be a strong, unified nation, and the first will do will be to wage a. war of revenge upon her island neighbor. Japan's object, then. is to encourage a friendly China
 forth with a new method for so do- ing. It would convince China of the need of an alliance of Oriental races against possible Western invasion and SuppISSSuCH opcdhiIIS co1lO44 4d4ly oA this possibility, says in part:
 '"The fact is too obvious to deny that, owing to the occupation of too wide areas of the world by the whites the other races have been left with out sufficient areas for their develop ment. The tendency of the whites to shut their doors upon the Japanese race is becoming more accentuated the Japanese are left with no other course than to seek an alliance to prevent the destruction of their race"
 That paragraph sums up the req sons advanced by this element of the Japanese. which, it must be said, is small and uninfluential. The ma jority of the Japanese are exertlng every possible effort to secure a friendly China. The various Shantung commissions, now meeting in Peking, are negotiating the return of Japan ese-held properties in the territory seized from Germany and are anxious reasonable terms of payment. Japan Is withdrawing the railway guards from Manchuria despite strong pro- test from residents here.
 No Chinese Response.
 But China's attitude in receiving back what Justly belongs to her IS not as copci1liatory as Tokio had wished In fact, the Picking officials are grow ing arrogant. One of Dr. Yelling ton Koos first acts as Foreign Minis ter was to announce that S1lna WOulu seek the return of the Kwantune peninsula next year. This territory was acquired by the Iiaotung lease for twenty-five years by Russia; wrested from Russia by Japan an the Russo-Japanese War and, in 1915, taken from China for ninety-nine years in the Chino-Japanese agree ment which became a part of the twenty-one demands. The. original Russian lease of twenty-five years ex- pires in 1923 Dr. Koe's stand is that the Chinese people have never sanctioned the Japanese lease and that the territory should revert tc China Japan, however, will no consent to the loss of the territory with the rapidly growing city of Dali ren, it's industries and naval base even under more severe pressure thar was indirectly applied concerning Shantung at Washington. Industria pred ominance in Manchuria remains I a matter of life and death to Tokio | Tokio knows that the best th1ns China caH do now is to walk the l chalk line in order to get the bes 1 Shantung terms possible,
 l The Roo statement serves at thu | present to indicate the future. The | Sino-Japanese alliance against tht l white race is imp ossible. Further 1 more. a China as friendly to Japan | as is wished is still fair in the dis l