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Evening star., 1923-06-10
Great Britain Supports United States Fight
Japan's Claim to Wireless Monopoly in China
BY FREDERICK CUNLIFFE-OWEN
q II. f,

BY FREDERICK CUNLIFFE-OwEN
4. b. +.
The real history Of the disarina
ment conference at Washington has
vet to be written. In spite OF the
presence of the most brilliant and
argus-eyed newspaper correspondents
from all parts of the world. some OF
the principal features of the congress
escaped their attention. Much went
on behind the scenes, as IS customary
In these international palavers. men
tion OF which was omitted from the
daily official communicates 10 the
press. Thus while the avowed OBJ
iect Of the conference was to bring
about such a degree OF universal
naval disarmament and international
agreement with regard to the peace
full policies Of the great powers pos
sessed of territories bordering on the
Pacific ocean. with the idea or avert
inp or at any rate. reducing TO a
minimum all possible causes for war,
the chief purpose in the eyes OF the
American and English public was TO
bring about friendly termination OF
the offensive and defensive Alliance
between Great Britain and Japan
the existence Of which was very gen
eral,v but quite unjustly regarded as
an obstacle to the complete under
standing and loyalty of friendship
between the two great Ensilsn-
speaking powers of the world.
Neither Great Britain nor America
could deny the advantage which both
had derived from the services rem
dered by Japan to the cause or the
entente in policing the Pacific ocean
during the great war. She was en-
titled to their gratitude. ana II was,
therefore a matter Of Importance, In
view of the popular prejudice against
the treaty in American and English
dominions, to bring 1t to close with
out giving any offense to the land OF tne
rising sun. or to the national PRIDE g
of its high-spirited and wonderful
people.
That the Anglo-Japanese treaty
passed out of existence a year and a
half ago Is a matter Of public record.
The washington disarmament con-
eress may be said to have constituted
the celebration Of it's wake. But
what is not generally known is that
it's demise was followed almost i'm
mediately, and at the congress, by a
bitter conflict between the United
States and Japan, in which Great
Britain felt herself bound to line up
with America against the power to
whom she had been until then so
closely united by ties Of an offensive
and defensive alliance. The conflict
was on the subject of Japan's claim
to the monopoly of wireless telegra-
ply in China, which she contended
had been granted to her to the ex-
clusion Of all other foreign powers
by the Picking government. Japan's
pretensions to monopoly Of wireless
telegraphy in. China were based on
the concession granted to the Mitsui
Bussan Kaisha Company, strong
and semi-official organization at
Toxic, with widely diversified inter-
ests. The grant of this alleged mo-
nopoly to the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
Company did not, however, prevent
the Peking authorities from. some
time afterward, concluding a contract
with an American concern, the Fed
eral Telegraph Company Of Delaware,
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people IN Japan were made to feel
that the Anglo-Japanese alliance had
ceased to exist and that it's death at
the hands of the English. and the
transfer OF the latter's affection. their
I support, and OF their mutual Coop
| eratlon to people of their own race.
| blood and language. while not as
sailed, was nevertheless resented.
| ~
| Up to the time of the disarmament
conference in Washington. Japans
/ activities in China had received a sort
of srudging support from the Eng
| lish government, which. in the matter
! did not represent the views and the
prejudices OF the British nation. But
since the last eighteen months there
has been a distinct change. John
Bull and Uncle Sam arc working
hand in hand in a spirit OF mutual
| understanding. and with view to
the open door and absence of all
monopoly, and this naturally has
brought the two powers strongly
against the determination Of Japan
to secure the political. and above all.
the economic domination and control
Of China.
Now while the present japanese
any rate. a semblance Of the friend
! liest relations with the United States
and with Great Britain. yet it cannot
be denied that the japanese people
are becoming alive to the altered con-
ditions. and the controversy on the
subject of the wireless system in
China is becoming all the time more
acute. And some of the most eminent
and conservative statesmen in Japan,
realizing that their empires interests
are contrary to those of the two great
English speaking powers, are turning
their direction elsewhere. namely, to-
ward soviet Russia and indirectly, to-
ward Germany.
Among the leaders of this new
course of policy adopted by Japan is
Viscount Goto, who was minister of
foreign affairs at Toxic in 1917 and
1918, and who at one moment ac-
cepted the office of mayor of Toxic
at the urgent request of the imperial
government, which needed a par
ticularly strong man to assume
charge and control of the metropolis.
viscount Goto has taken UP the active
presidency of the new Russo-Japanese
Society, which has been in existence
,
the responsibility Of inviting NJ. Joffe,
the plenipotentiary of the soviet gov
ernment at Moscow to Japan, where
he has been living for several months
in constant intercourse with states
men, politicians. captains Of industry
and of commerce, publicists, ETC.. in
Japan with the result that something
very much akin to a permanent un-
derstanding now exists between
soviet Russia and Japan, which is not
precisely favorable, either to the
United States or to Great Britain.
Quite recently the Japanese min
lister plenipotentiary at Warsaw,
while on his way from Toxic to re-
Join his post, made a prolonged stay
at Moscow, where he carried on a
number of conferences with the boil
sheviki authorities. and in this con-
nection it is not without some
significance that the SHINES interests
have now established an understand
ing based on mutual cooperation
with the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha wire
less monopoly concern at Toxic, and
with other Japanese undertakings In
China, promoted and indorsed by the
Mikado government. Indeed SHINES
is credited with having recently con-
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, for the construction of a number or
/ radio stations in China.
= 4 i:
Quite naturally when the question
of Japan's claims to a monopoly
of wireless telegraphy in China crop
ped uD at the Disarmament Congress,
in spite OF the efforts made to elimi-
nate it from the discussion as cal
culated to wreck the conference and
TO defeat it's officially declared OBJ
jects. the United States espoused the
cause of the Delaware Federal Tele-
graph Company to the extent Of de-
claring that it could not. and would
not recognize the validity OF the
monopoly granted by the Peking gov
ernment to the Mitsu Russian Kaisha
concern, monopoly totally at
variance with the existing interna-
tfonal agreements on the subject OF
China, especially with reference to
the o-calied open-door policy. One
of the powers at the congress showed
disposition to make capital of the
issue for purpose Of diplomatic trou-
BILE. But Great Britain lined up
squarely with the United States and
pronounced herself so unhesitatingly
against the recognition of the validity
concluded that the issue had best be
sidetracked for the time being and
that no further attempt be then made
to press the matter
1t is only fair to add that Baron
Kato and his associates lent them
selves to the sidetracking Of the Nit
sui monopoly controversy, at any rate
for the time being. They were
anxious on behalf of ther country to
bring Japan out Of the conference
with the least possible damage to her
prestige or to the national pride Of
Of the greatest amount Of favor and
goodwill on the part of the powers
of the entente. After the annulment
of the Anglo-Japanese treaty and her
retirement from Shantung. and from
much Of the Siberian mainland. it was
necessary that she should save her
face, especially in the eyes or her
people by creating the impression
that her representatives at washing
ton had vastly strengthened the
bonds of her friendship with the
United States and Great Britain.
But it was not long after the re-
turn Of Baron Kato to Toxic, that
the true facts OF the case became
known and that the relations of Dai
Nippon towards the two great Eng
lish speaking powers underwent
very marked change. Japan was not
slow to realize that Great Britain.
called upon to choose between an
alliance with her and intimate CO.
operation with the United States. had
given preference to the latter, and
that from thenseforth she was likely
to find the United States and England
working hand in hand in the prob
lens Of the far Orient While the
relations of her government con-
tinued perfectly correct and even
cordial, what may be described as
the social atmosphere of the lieges
of the Mikado toward the Americans
and the British cooled considerably.
Charles B. Warren. a singularly
able and successful diplomat, who had
done extremely we'll in the delicate
role Of American ambassador to
Toxic. felt the altered conditions with
regard to the United States. so much
that he came home. and much of the
old time intimacy that had from time
immemorial existed between the
members Of the British embassy at
Toxic and the natives Of high and
low degree. disappeared In fact the
English embassy and the English
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In times when ~mummies were
thought less of than today many
were exported and purchased by
color manufactures, who ground
them down by machinery and turned
them into a delicate brown LIQUID
paint. which was the delight of all
artists,
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I ttributed several millions of dollars 10
{ Japanese undertakings in China.
/ \. X x X
! OF the Peking government it is un-
necessary to say anything in this
| connection. 1t is nothing but a mere
! figure Of speech and its leaders are
| here today and gone tomorrow, with
no stability, credit or popular conf
| dence. 1t simply does not count, and
| while on the one hand the so-called
republic there may at any moment
give way to a monarchial restoration
in favor of the sixteen-year old en-
peror, engineered by the armies of
one provincial governor or the other
| or the executive power may be seized
upon by some nominee of the Jap
anese and Russian soviet interests,
the Chinese people themselves, their
industr ial and commercial population,
and above all, their great manufac-
turing and trading guilds. which are
guided by the traditions and the ex-
perience of centuries are all favor
able to the American and British CO.
operation, and have instituted an
other far reaching and drastic
throughout the length and breadth of
what was formerly known as the
celestial kingdom.
This boycott of Japan is not wit
out reacting very seriously on the
bolshevist interests in Asia. that too
at a moment which is particularly
inconvenient, namely, at a time when
Lord Curzon. turning to account his
well nigh unique experience Of the
Orient. has called upon his govern
ment to use its influence upon the
Sassoons and other British subjects
pyh vol 1,a
native banking business of Asia, and
of northern and central Africa
financing all native commerce and
trade, especially in the interior of
Asia, and of central and northern
Africa for untold generations.
x X y x
1t is this financial power, welded
by Lord Curzon upon the entire ma
tive financing of oriental and north
and central African trade, which,
with it's menace of blacklisting all
bolshevist commerce and industry in
Asia. Is enabling him to deal with
the soviet government at Moscow
with a master hand, and which has
already compelled it to concede to
most of his demands notably in con-
nection with British fishing rights in
Russia's northern waters and in the
liberation and compensation of Brit
ish fishing boats and their crews,
which had been captured, the boats
and their cargoes confiscated and
their officers and crews thrown into
prison.
1t is only necessary to add in con-
clusion that American and British CO.
operation, especially backed by the
great Guilds Of China and by that
nations 40O.00O.000 thrifty, industrial
and hard working people, form quite
as irresistible q. combination for the
welfare of mankind, for the cause of
peace and for the advance of civili-
cation in Asia, as the working hand
In hand of the two great English
speaking powers, not bound by any
treaty, but working for a common
end can prove In Europe.
Evening star., 1923-06-10
~ OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

- ERMANY again has spoker
in regard to reparations.
i Again her words have
fallen upan deaf ears.
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| tributed several millions of dollars 10
| japanese undertakings in China.
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last will Of F. M. Rogers, Deceased,
Mason City Loan & Trust Company,
q corporation, George w. Brett, Mark
C0unce. George A. Duemeland, r. E.
Morris, ]. B. Glass and o. +. Clark,
are defendants, and an execution
issued upon said judgment, the UNI
dersigned, Sheriff of Burleigh Coun-
ty, North Dakota. will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash at the front door of the Court
House in the City of Bismarck, Bur-
leigh County, North Dakota, on the
7th day of August, 1928, at two
o'clock p. NJ, the real estate des-
cribed as follows:
South half (Sh) Of Section Three
90, and the Southeast quarter of
Northwest quarter (SEANWA) },
quarter (SWN NEA) and North half
of Southeast quarter (NhSEA) Of
Section Four (4) Township One Hun
dred Forty (14O Range Seventy-six
(76), and also all of Section One U
Township One Hundred Forty (140)
Range Seventy-seven CID IN said
Burleigh County.
necessary to satisfy said judgement
sum of $14,185.78 with 6 percent in
terest from July 9Th, 1923, and all
accruing costs.
Dated at Bismarck, N. D.. this 9th
day of July. 1923. ,ss
Albin Hedstrom, Sheriff
Of Burleigh County,
North Dakota.
Rees L. Phelps, =
Attorney for Plaintiffs
Steele; North \, Pal 49,
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600, was IS percent under the
amount reported in May.
POSSE HUNTS
MAN WH0SH0T
s. D. SHERIFF
Forty to Fifty Persons
Launch Hunt Near Moor
head, Minnesota, for Rust

Fargo, N. D., July 13.-Sheriff Fred
Kracmer of Fargo, and Peter Mel
vey of Moorhead, were called to De-
troit, Mimi. last evening to help cap
ture Edwin Rust.
The hunt for the youthful murder
er of Sheriff !. C. Fulker of Aberdeen,
S. D., on a train near Moorhead Sun
day evening, July l, has been re-
sumed in earnest. A sheriff's posse
renewed the search last night when
Rust is said to have been discovered
on a freight train in the yards at
Detoit.
Travelled With Rust.
About p. m. yesterday stranger
came to the Office of Sheriff Ed.
Swanson of Becker county in De-
troit and reported that Rust was
beating his way east on a freight
train that just had arrived in De-
troit. The assertion was borne out
by another stranger, companion Of
the first. They claimed they had
Travelled with Rust from Staples.
The sheriff with deputies and the
chief of police of Detroit started for
the train.
A man, whom the officers believe
was Rust, took to the woods when
the officers attempted to surround
him. The sheriff and his aides gave
chase and general alarm was
sounded.
The fugitive managed to get away
in the woods to the west of Detroit
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u. S. SOLDIERS
ARE KILLED BY
PRODUCT, CLAIM

Wilmington, Del, July IA
charge that American soldiers were
killed during the war by salvarson
manufactured by Herman Metz,
former Congressman of New York,
was made today by Isidor Kresel,
defense counsel, at the trial of the
governments suit against the Chem
ical Foundation for the recovery of
seized German patents. Mr.. Kresel
also charged that the government
was shielding Mr.. Metz "in not
wanting it disclosed that it was his
salvarson that killed our soldiers"
He stated that at the proper time
he would inquire what the motive
of the government is in taking that
position"
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LEADERSHIP
WILL CHANGE
Senator Dillingham's Death
to Result in Senate
Changes

Washington, July 13.-Important
changes in senate committee leader
ship will result in the death of
Senator Dillingham; of Vermont. He
was in line to become chairman of
the judiciary committee next De-
cember rs he was ranking member
to the late Senator Nelson of Mimi
esota, who was chairman at the time
of his death. Sen. Bfandegee, Re-
publican, Connecticut, is now in line
for that Craftsmanship.
Sen. Dillingham; was one of the
veteran Republican "stalworthies'
and had served prominently in
many capacities, especially in legal
work and as an acknowledged ex-
pert on immigration.
Senator Dillingham; in recent
years was chairman of the prim-
leges and elections committee and
had charge of the charges brought
by Henry Ford against Senator New
berry.
Senator Dillingham; was operated
on three weeks ago for gall trouble.
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Dated this 10th day Of July, 1928.
Frank Barnes,
Agent for Regain State
Bank. Regan, N. Oak.
Scott Cameron, 5>Eti
Attorney for Mortgages,
Bismarck, North Dakota. srt,
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE
Notice is hereby given thst that
certain mortgage, executed and deliv-
cred by G. Olgeirson and Isabel H.
Olgeirson, his wife, mortgagors, to
Union Investment Company, cor
poration, Mortgages. dated October
Twenty-second 1917, and filed for
record in the office of the Register
of Deeds of the County of Bprleigh
and State Of North Dakota on, the
First day of November 1917, And
recorded in Book One hundred fifty
one of Mortgages, at Page Fifty
seven; and thereafter assigned yLy
said mortgage. by an instrument in
writing dated January Fifteenth,
1918, to Helen Contain, of Saint
was on the Seventeenth day Of jan
uary 1913, duly recorded in the office,
CT the Register of Deeds of, said Bar
leigh County. in Book One hundred
fifty-one of Mortgages. at Page One
hundred seventy-one; will. be FORE
closed by sale Of the, prem 10 in
such mortgage and hereinafter des-..
cribed at the front door Of the Bur.
leigh County Court House, lin the
City of bismarck, Burleieh County,
North Dakota, at the hour Of One
o'clock in the afternoon ON the
Thirty-.first day of July 1923, to sat,
isfy the amount due upon such mort
gage on the day of sale. The premis- >
es described in such mortgage, and
which will be sold to satisfy the,
same are situated in the County Of
Rurleigh, State Of North Dakota, and
described as follows:-The South
west Quarter Of the Southeast Quar-.
ter. the Southeast Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter, and Lot Four Of
Section Thirty, in Township One
Hundred Forty-two North, Of Range
Seventy-five West Of the Fifth Prin-;]
cipal Meridian.
There will be due on such mort.
gage at the date of sale the sum OF
Nine Hundred Thirty-nine Dollars
and Twenty cents; besides the costs 4
and expenses of sale, and The A.
torney fee allowed by law.
Dated June Twentieth 1928.
Helen Contain, Assignee
Adrian E. Buttz, .A...,.- - = = n
Attorney for Assignee.
Leeds, North Dakota.
(June 2l-2s and July 5-12-19-2e-ls2s) !
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1900 GALLONS
OF BOOZE IS
TAKEN IN N. D.
Liquor Seizures of the Last IL
Months Reported by u. S.
Officials

Fargo. July 13s-Almost fifteen
hundred gallons Of illicit liquor and
over twelve thousand gallons of
mash were seized by federal prohi-
bition agents in North Dakota dur
ing the twelve-month period endiag
on June 80, last, according to the an
nual report on file at the state head,
quarters office here, announced yes
terday by Roland Cruden,
Approximately $4,000 worth of
property having a money value, such
as automobiles and pure grain alco-
hol, was seized during the year, part
OF which has been sold and the
money turned over to the department
at Washington. A large amount of
miscellaneous articles, such as grips.
whiskey testers, stoves, cooling tanks.
army canteens and liquor glasses,
was also taken. Several purchases of
cocaine and morphine were seized
and turned over to the narcotic de-
partment for prosecution.
Last June was the heaviest month
in the number Of stills, coils and fer
mentors and the amount of mash
seized. but in other respects fell be-
hind previous months, the report
shows. The three months of Sept
ember, October and November last
fall and the month of May this
spring. were also heavy months.
The complete report by months fol-
lows:
Gals. of
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CONSTRUCTION
LESS B IN june
Seasonal Construction
J. Building Estimates Is
2 Shown

: June construction volume was Ia
nercent under May. according to F.
W. Dodge Corporation. The decline
was general except in portions of
the Central West. Total contracts
awarded during June in the SO East
ern States (includihg about. 7-s of
the total volume in the country
amounted to $371,O34,O0O In spite
Of the decline, this figure indicates
q large volume of work started. Any
month that shows more than $780,
100000 for these SO states is a
heavy month. The decline from
June, 1922, was 6 percent.
Last month's total included:
{l36,Sl3.000 or 81 percent for resi-
Dental buildings; $75,59e, 900, or 20
per cent for public works and utili-
ties; $b6,s66. 900, or l5 percent, for
industrial buildings; $44,727,O0O of
IL percent for business buildings:
and $26,4l0,000 or z percent, for ed.
ucational buildings.
The June figure brought the total
Tor, the first half of the year up to
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BURNSTADBACK.
TO MONTANA to-
FACECHARGES'
Prominent Citizene of Logan
County Ready to Answer
Them, He Says

Bozeman, Mont, July l3.--Chris.
p. Burnstad, prominent citizen of
Burnstad, North Dakota, and at one
time called the cattle king of North
Dakota, was brought to Bozeman
last night by Sheriff Smith on Il
charge Of obtaining money under
false pr atense, the amount involved
being $4,000, the property of the
st. Paul Cattle and Loan Company
of So. St. Paul. Extradition papers
were issued by Governor Dixon up
on the request Of the county attor-
ney Of Gallatin county for Burnstad
and were presented to Governor
Nestos in North Dakota by Sheriff
Smith.
Burnstad is said to have negotiat-
ed with the st. Paul Company for
loan of $4,000 in August. 1919, with
which to be paid for shipment of
cattle to be loaded on cars at Will
low Creek, Gallatin county. In
this shipment Of 1881 head OF cat
tie but 553 were the property of
Burnstad, according to County At
torney Peterson and the remainder
belonged to Basil T;nsiey and A. l..
Martin Of Willow Greek, who had
arranged with Burnstad to take
them to North Dakota for pasturins.
The Burnstad shipment was valu-
ed at $4,000 and the St. Paul Com
pany is now seeking recovery of
the other $4,000.
Burnstad did not attempt to fight
extradit ion and said he was willing
to be brought back to face the
charges. He was met en- route at
Hunters Hot Springs by Robert At
kins of Napoleon, N. d., his attor-
ney.
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MAY SUMMON
MR.. WILSON

Washington, July ia subpoena
for former President Wilson whose
testimony may be sought in the
Morse trial was prepared in the Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court at
the request of counsel for the de-
Tense. 1t was said that defense at
torneys had not decided definitely
whether the subpoena would be
served and they would not indicate
the character Of the testimony the
former president would be asked to
give.