The New York herald., 1922-02-04
ciples of the integrity OF China and Of
the open door.
Manchuria and Mongolia. {

Manchuria and Mongolia.
with respect 10 the treaty and the
notes concerning South Manchuria ana
Eastern Inner Mongolia. Baron ,shide-
hara has made the reassuring statement
that Japan has no intention OF Insisting
on a preferential right concerning the
engagement by China of Japanese ad-
visers or instructors on political. hnan-
cial. military or police matters In South
Manchuria.
Baron Shidehara has likewise mol
Gated the readiness of Japan not 70
insist upon the right of option granted
exclusively in favor Of Japanese capltat
with regard, first, to loans for the con-
struction of railays in South Manchuria
and Eastern Inner Mongolia, and. sec
ond, with regard to loans secured on the
taxes OF those regions; but that Japan
will throw them open TO the joint ac-
tivity of the international financial. con-
sortium recently organized.
AS TO this, l may say thai 1t Is
doubtless the fact that any enterprise
of the character contemplated. which
may be undertaken in these regions by
foreign capital, would in all probability
be undertaken by the consortium. But
it should be observed that existing
treaties would leave the opportunity for
such enterprises open on terms or
equality to the citizens of all nations.
1t can scarcely be assumed that this
general right of the treaty Powers In
China can be as effectively restricted
to the nationals Of those countries
which are participants in the work OF
the consortium, or that any of the Gov
ernments which have taken part in the
organization of the consortium would
feel themselves to be in a position to
deny all rights in the matter TO any
save the members of their respective
national groups in that organization. l
therefore trust that it is in this sense
that we may properly interpret the
japanese Governments declaration of
Willingness to relinquish its claim under
the 1915 treaties to any exclusive posi-
ton with respect to railway construc-
ton and to financial operations secured
upon total revenues in south Manchuria
and eastern inner Mongolia.
Leaving of Lands.
TT is further to be pointed out that
by Articles l., H., III. and ". Of the
treaty of May %, 1915, with respect to
south Manchuria and eastern Inner
Mongolia. the Chinese Government
granted to Japanese subjects the right
to lease lands for building purposes, for
trade and for manufacture and for
agricultural purposes in south Man
churia. to reside and travel in south
Manchuria, and to engage in any kind
of business and manufacture there and
to enter into joint undertakings with
Chinese citizens in agricultural and
similar industries in eastern inner Mon
gola.
with respect to the grant, the Gov
ernment of the United States will, of
course, regard it as not intended 10 be
exclusive and. as in the past. will claim
from the Chinese Government for Amer
lean citizens the benefits accruing to
them by virtue of the most favored ma
tion clauses in the treaties between the
United States and China
II may pause here to remark that the
question of the validity Of the treaties
as between Japan and China is distinct
from the question of the treaty rights
OF the United States under its treaties
with China, in that these rights have
been emphasized and consistently as
serted by the United States.
''In this, as in all matters similarly
affecting the general right of its citizens
TO engage in commercial and industrial
enterprises in China, it has been the
traditional policy of the American Gov
crnni-~. TO insist upon the doctrine of
CO. - for the nationals of all coun-
'"iet, and this policy, together with the
other policies mentioned in the note of
May 13. 1915, which 1 have quoted, is
consistently maintained by this Gov
ernment l may say that it Is with
especial pleasure that the Government
OF the United States finds itself now en-
gagged in the act of reafflrming and de-
fining and, / hope that / may add. re-
vitalizing, by the proposed nine Power
treaty. these policies with respect to
China"