Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-15
CANTON SEEKS
TOUNITE CHINA
TO OPPOSE JAPS
Presidents Aide Says Arms
Conference Leaves Nippon
csc Orient Leaders.
DETECTIVES SET FORTH

Eugene Chen, secretary to DR.. Sun Vat
Sen, president of South China, in setting
forth, the detectives Of the revolutionary
movement.
This explains the politics Of the ex-
petition which the South is sending forth
to battle with the foes of the Republic
in the Wu-Han center"
The Wu-Han center Of China is the dis
trict around Hankow, the commercial
center of the Hu-peh province. Directly
across the Yangtsze from Hankow Is
Wuchang, the capital of Hu-peh and the
| city which Dr. Sun hopes to make the
seat Of the Southern government instead
Of Canton. Wu-Han is now held by W.
PeiFu, a military chieftain, who is hos
| tile TO both Chinese governments.
I'VE see the problem in these terms,
I said Dr. Chen.
First political uniication Is an i'm
mediate necessity If China is to be saved
from the gravest consequences Of Nan
DARN misgoyernmenL
/ MITIGATION
/ BLOCKED BY PEKIN.
! Second, unifcat1on, however, Is i'm
! possible unless there is an end to tho
/ state Of things prevailing in Pekin, where
government is carried on frankly in viola
I tion Of the organic law Of the land. No
I ,ne denies that Pekin has ceased, IN
reality, to be covering body and that it
continues in being simply because the
/ foreign powers recognize it as the govern
ment Of China.
1 Third, at Canton we have a constitu-
/ tiOnslly organized government whose eu-
( thority is recognized by the great block
/ OF southwest proyinces-Kwangtung
kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow and SzechS
uen. Human is now, for practical pur-
poses, part Of the block. Other provinces
T1-orrTd If aahacfau ror1d ha AZ al
without exposing them to reactionary re-
prisals.
Fourth, the transfer Of the seat Of
/ President Sun Yat Sens government from
/ Canton to Wu-Han would create 8 sit
uation IN which existing political values
( be profoundly changed. 1t is certain that
/ the Illegal regime in Pekin would como
to an end and that the political unifica-
/ ton Of the country would follow.
lit wss hoped TO effect this change in
I the seat OF the Government from Canton
to one Of the Wu-Han cities before the
/ opening Of the Washington conference
HOW CONFERENCE
WAS VIEWED.
I'VE considered the main assumption
Of the Washington conference to be that
Of ornaments, unless arrested or limited.
might end in creation Of conditions likely
/ to break modern society IN its existing
. political and economic forms. This pos
I sible upheayal, we Inferred, might be the
result Of taxation becoming so burden
some in order to meet the cost Of arma-
ments that people would have TO choose
/ between a greatly reduced standard OF
I living and a revolt against this system
of pauperization of national life. On this
view it seemed to Us that the question
Of ornaments was changing from q con-
3 Ia
structive concept directed against mod
cru civilization in its traditional and
characteristic features.
I've held aud we hold still that q
Limitation Of ornaments is iInpracticable
unless the Pacific question can be settled
IN the sense Of an open sea in which the
/ existing status quo shall continue rela-
tively unchanged instead Of a Japanese
see in which the status quo shall be fun
ton Of the Pacific question depends on
/ right and permanent solution of the
/ Chinese question.
Japan frankly claims her territorial
! expansion is a national necessity in or
der to secure room for her surplus popu-
/ lation.
ROOM AVAILABLE
IN AMERICA"
'It is admitted that such room is avail
able IN Australia and IN America But
certain considerations Of high policy for
bid the entry of Japanese immigrants
into these lands.
Hence the thesis which insists that
the existing status quo in the Pacific shall
| be fundamentally altered in favor of
japanese emigrants. It is believed that
! such q solution Of the Paciac question
/ could only be effected by a japanese vic
tory In q war with America
1t. To
not vanQuish America If she had to rely
on her own resources. But It is equally
plain that she could do so II Chinese
man-power and Chinese natural resources
/ were at her command. Hence the raiscn
de'etrs Of Japan's policy in China
at is also a term Of the agreement
that Japan's resl aim Is masked In the
contention that she seeks IN China only
room for her surplus population and the
raw materials bout which her indus
tries would perish. But intra-mural
China Is over ,IOgded, and the conditions
Of life in extrs-mural Chlna-Manchuria
and AIogOlia-are not suitable for gen
uine japanese, as distinguished from
purely political. colonization in those
regions. AS regards raw materials these
are and always Will be available to
Japan through the ordinary trade chm
nels.
JAPAN AIMS AT
DOMINATION OF CHINA
These considerations, therefore, seem
to support the view that Japan's policy
/ in China aims at the domination OF
China with her man-pOwer and natural
resources In order to enable Japan to
force open the gates Of Australia and
America to Japanese immigration.
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