The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-03
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Japanese Consider They Have
Been Double Crossed"
Protests Expected.
BY WICKWIRE.

Enraged by the discovery that the
amazing disclosures duplicating France
end Japan in secret pact for control
CT Siberia were made by the Far
Eastern Republic Commissioners with
the foreknowledge, IL not the approval.
~ the American State Department, the
French delegates to the arms limita-
ton conference today are threatening
withdrawal, while the Japanese, tight
mouthed but bitterly resentful, are
awaiting instructions from Tokyo.
Charges that they have been double
crossed are Vehemently discussed and
generally believed by the personnel OF
10th delegations. Whether or not Am
bassador Jusserand has protested to the
State Department against the &C
tivities of the Far Eastern commits.
sion on American soil as a violation
Of the rights OF friendly nation
could not be learned today.
French: Protest Expected.
That he will make such a protest,
IL sanctioned by his home office.
| seems certain from the tenor o. the
| final paragraph OF M. Sarraut's com.
munication yesterday denouncing the
falsehood OF the reputed documents
| 10 Secretary Hughes as chairman OF
OF bringing to your attention that
the illegal and malicious action OF the
representatives of the so-called re-
Epublicf. Of Chita, exercised WITHOUT
mandate or moral authority, with
! the object OF creating suspicious be.
| tween the powers represented at the
Washington conference seems to be
directly contrary to the peaceful
| aims sought by the conference"
This. as pointed out by a sub
ordinate French official, specifically
stresses, as illegal" the activities of
the Far Eastern commission here,
and is as far as M. Sarraut could
go in "a communication to the con.
ference. is a different matter with
M Jusserand who, in his official
capacity az ambassador to the United
States. n the proper official to make
formal protest to this Government
II II is believed that French interests
haye been Jeopardized Or encroached
l-upon.by any failure to. protect France
from the pronsulgation of false
t'charges made. by unofficial repre-!
sentatfves OF an unrecognized gov
eminent without mandate or moral
authority 900 -.
That the State Department had init.
nations of the character of the Far
Eastern republics documents was first
disclosed IN The Washington Times Of
December. Q In an article exposing the
existence OF a secret Russo, Japanese
part ~ ~ '--'r.i,.' - ~. 49, !.
| Times Gives News First.
On December 10. in the first authori-
tatVe announcement that Siberian
problems would be taken up in the
conference before adjournment, Wash
lpgton Times readers were informed Of
this general character Of these docu.
ments by the intimation that the
French demand for a seventeen navy
might have been rthe subject of under
standing between France and Japan !
| made with q view to disrupting a set
Element over which neither Of these
| nations are reputed to be enthusiastic"
NJ. Skvirsky. head of the Far East
ern delegation, yesterday declared he
had made his first communication to
the State Department on December s
and had made his disclosures through
the press only after later communica-
lions Of December 20 and December 80
had not resulted in satisfactory assur-
ances that his delegation would be
given opportunity to present it's case
before the conference. 1t is the un.
official French attitude that the Ameri..
can officials had ample opportunity,
therefore. "a, interteie IL they had been
so inclined.