The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-19
JAPAN SEEKS ID RECALL FOREIGN
 TROOPS IN CHINA
Saburi Declares Japan's Pol icy Toward Washington Ar- mament Conference Has
 Undergone No Change
By Associated Press


 Baltimore, June 1S.-Japan has en- tered into negotiations with the other powers maintaining troops in China looking to the withdrawal of all for eign troops from that country, Sadao Saburi, charge d'affaires of the Jap anese embassy, declared in an ad- dress today at the First Unitarian church.
 MT. Saburi. referring to a recent order removing Japanese troops from Kankowan. declared the Japanese minister at Peking has been in strueted to take up the matter of withdrawal of other troops with the representatives of the countries in- tcrested,
 Japan hopes that all the other foreign troops stationed in Picking and other places, according to the protocol signed after the Boxer re- bellion of 1900, will withdraw. as or- der is restored in China" he added.
 "Japans policy toward the Wash ington conference and the results attained there has undergone no change from the time when the idea was suggested to the present day, Mr. saburi said, adding, the spirit of the head of the new Japanese gov ernment is identical with that of Premier Hara," under whose suid- ance the countrys policy at the conference was formed"
 Declare Will to Peace
 The Washington conference. he said, amounted 10 a plain deelara tion of the will to peace. The con ference gave us reason to hope for general advance toward a world where good will may be allowed to keep the peace,
 it Is not. of course, for me to say that there were in this country those " no expected war with Japan. nor that there were in other countries tfose who desired 1t, but l do say that ii Japan there were many who feared war between our two coun- tries.
 When we came to the conference it was unGer dark sky of suspicion, born of ignorance. But when We arrived we met only generosity. there was q spirit of conciliation and good will manifest with every moment and after the conference our people returned home warm in the clear sun of right.
 Tn the four-power treaty is pro- vided the end of the historic Anglo Japanese alliance.
 i ha faa that the fo1lT- mower treaty moans more to Japan in future l than the Angio-Japanese alltangs could possibly mean--in other words that the present treaty Is of more vaire than the other-does not alter the truth that Japan demonstrated the sincerity of her desire to CO., 1 operate.
 Shantung Treaty
 "By the Shantung treaty. recently ra tlfied by both Japan and China Japan was enabled to return te China the former German leased ter r.iory and the former German rail way. Without waiting for ratifica- ton. we began at once to carry out the provisions of the treaty and a 1 few weeks ago now the last of the Japanese troops which acted as i guards along the Shantung railway were entirely withdrawn. The other provisions will be carried out as rap- l idly as conditions permit, and let me 1 say frankly, that they cannot be carried out too rapidly to please us
 Now. as to Siberia, 1t Is fre- ! qu ently said that Japan has not yet | carried out her pledge to withdraw her troops. This is perfectly true i and no one regrets it more than Japan. What we want in Siberia IS ! first the safety of Japanese res idents established in business there Second we want to eliminate the dal- ger to ourselves of bolshevik propa- eanda at our frontier.
 "The third assurance we require, is to secure the opening of Siberia to the commerce of foreign nations, and 10 foreign capital and foreign enter prises, on the basis of equality for all
 T reiterate that we will withdraw (from Siberia). as soon as. we get assurance, in one way or another. on the points which l mentioned"