The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-20
By EDNA LEE BOOKER.

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 shanghai. Feb 2O-'I have laid it ' down that we of the South China Government have gone to Canton in the interest of a unified China, 'sald Sun Yat Sen. President of South China, in setting forth, through In ternational News Service, the object ts .arThis explains the politics of the expedition which the South is send ing forth to battle with the foes or the Republic in the Wu-Han center; q The W--Han center of China IS the district around Hankow. the commercial center of the Hu-peh province. Directly across the Yans- 'capital of Hu-peh and the city which Dr. Sun hopes to make the seat or the Southern government Instead or Canton: Wu-Han is nov oI1s ne heio bH bS is hostile to both Chinese govern ments.
 we see the problem in these .sFirst political uniffcation is an immediate necessity if China is to be saved from the gravest consequences b of Mandarin misgovernment-
 Unification Blocked by Picking.
 ''Seconds +unifcation. however, IS impossible unless there is an end to ,s the state of things prevailing in on frankly in violation of the organic law of the land. No one denies that ,s Picking has ceased, in reality, 10 De governing body and that It continues in being simply because the Foreign Powers recognize it as the govern , ment of China
 ' ssThird at Canton we have a con- sFutionaily organized goyernlnfne lIH tbe k great block of southwest provinces ' Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow and Szechuen. Human is now for practical purposes. part Of hl0rk Other provinces WOulu [ join if adhesion could be effected without exposing them to reacuonary reprisals- of President Sun Yat Sens govern ment from Canton to Wu-Han would create a situation in which eN1sllnS political values would be profoundly changed. It is certain that the illegal regime in Picking would come to an end and that the political unifIcat1on {a of the country would follow.
 V Tt was hoped to effect this change in the seat of the government rom Canton to one of the Wu-Han cities before the opening of the Washing ton conference
 How Conference Was Viewed.
 we considered the main assump- ton of the Washington conference to be that of armaments. unless arrest e ed or limited. might end in creation of conditions likely to break modern society in its existing political and economic forms. This possible up- tl, suit of taxation becoming so burden some in order to meet the cost Of armaments that people would have to choose between a greatly reduced standard Of living and a revolt against this system of pauperiZation - of national life. On this view it seemed to us that the question of armamentS was changing rom a concept of war as between nations to a destructive concept directed against modern civilization in its traditional and characteristic features
 ''We held and we hold St1 that a limitation of ornaments is imprac- ticable unless the Pacific question can be settled in the sense of an open sea in which the existing status quo shall continue relatively unchanged instead of a Japanese sea in which thes 1atus quo shall be fundamental ally changed. And such a solution of the Pacific question depends on right and permanent solution Of the Chinese question
 "Japan frankIvsclaims that hel territorial expansion is nauona necessity in order to secure room fol her surplus population.
 ~Room Available in America"
 -'r is admitted that such room Is available in Australia and in America s But certain considerations higf policy forbid the entry of Japanese immigrants into these lands t'Hences the@ thesis which insist: that the existing status quo in ths . ed in favor of Japanese emigrants. | z is believed that such solution (