Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-13
CHINA PROFITS
BEYOND HOPES
AT CONFERENCE
DIR. Ching Hui Wang Says Ne
ton Got More Than
Anticipated.
FOOLED AT PARIS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-China cane
to the Washington conference empty
handed hoping for much, but expecting
little. Her delegation has gons with
three treaties, all in Chinas favor. China
also has made q greater gain IN eliciting
the sympathy Of the powers participating
in the conference. and focusing the
worlds attention on Chinas predicament.
Thus Dr. Ching Hui Wang, chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of China sums
up the results OF the conference as they
concern the Chinese republic. DR.. Wangs
statement was given in an interview just
before he left Washington for Seattle.
whence he will sail for China Satur-
day.
China has participated recently in two
international conferences" said DR.. Wang,
lat Paris and at Washington. In Paris,
the results, were negative. We got
nothing and we did not sign the treaty.
Here we did not get everything We
wanted, but we did get enough to meet
the immediate circumstances, enough to
serve us as a basis to work on, and 1
hope before long China viii be reunited.
The Shantung settlement, DIT. Vans
asserted, has been accepted as the best
possible solution of that question and
he regards il as significant no protest
was received before the agreement was
/ signed. despite the fact that the terms
Of the settlement had been cabled to
China.
sHANTUNG TRESTY
is ACCEPTABLE
"Our information is" continued Wang,
'the Shantung treaty is wholly accept
able TO the vast majority OF Chinese in
all the provinces. The Chinese delegates
and the Chinese government feel that
they owe real debt OF gratitude to the
American people, the American delega-
ton and 10 President Harding for the
friendly interest they have showed in the
Shantung matter.
II can point out a significant thing
in fact, from the beginning of our rela-
tions with foreign powers, this Shantung
settlement is the first instance and the
Washington conference the first session
when China has not given something
away but has obtained something back
through peaceful means. Some of the
principles in the nlne-power treaty are
not new, most Of them are not new, but
to have them in concrete form In treaties
solemnly signed In he presence Of worlo
opinion, IS a moral force which viii do
much for the future good Of China.
THE success OF the conference from
the Chinese point Of view is not what
China maintained in a material sense
so much what she obtained a psy-
Geological and moral sense. The atten-
ton of the whole world has led TO some
form of international control of China's
finances. I am not speaking my personal
opinion, but the opinion of the people
and the commercial classes Of China.
TWO THINGS ARE
NEEDED BY CHINA
Two things are necessary to improve
conditions in China. The first relates TO
the financial question. Certainly, the
Chinese government needs more money to
recognize the country and at present It
Is not disposed to borrow foreign money
The only course open is to increase the
customs and I hope the special confer
ence on this subject will not fail TO see
this point and will give China a higher
rate of duty than was agreed upon here.
I think that is essential. If the govern
ment should borrow foreign money, the
people would be very suspicious That is
why the government will not borrow. In
China, one of the three major questions
has been the financial one. The other
two were Shantung and the twenty-one
demands. The Shantung question has
been settled. Group Of the twenty
one demands has been withdrawn and
China has recorded q protest against the
others in the official records Of the con-
ference. While the twenty-one demands
have not been disposed OF entirely and
the increase of the tariff has not come
up to our expectations, all was done that
could be done here, and the special con
ference ought to do more.
THE second point relates to the dis
bandment of excessive military forces In
China.
These two questions really go to-
gether. They cannot be solved sepa-
rately. To dispose Of the soldiers. we
need the money with which to pay them
off and after their disbandment, to find
work for them to do."-Copyrtght, 1922.
by Public Ledger Company.