Evening star., 1926-08-22
ASIATIC UNREST is BREWING
AS RESULT OF FAR EAST PARLEY
Definite Alliance of Radical Leaders of Darker Races
Seen in Messages of Sympathy to Filipinos
and Other Nations.

of the laws which limit land holdings
to $500 acres for corporations or COM
panies. Unless the rubber interests
may acquire much larger land hold
ings than $500 acres. the effort to
produce rubber for America in the
Philippines will be enormously handi-
capped, If not thwarted. Some bar
gaining over this law already has
been reported, with the independence
leaders asking concessions before
modifying the law.
Sitter Movement Seen.
Now that a League of Asiatic Peo-
pies has been formed, and with the
construction that will be placed upon
this movement by radical leaders. a
ment Is among the eventualities.
Soap-box orators in the Philippines
will not lose the opportunity of tell
ing their followers that their com
rades" in Japan. China and India are
allied in support Of Asia for the Ash
atics." The fact that no Asiatic gov
ernment Is countenancing the move.
ment will not, naturally, be stressed
by such orators.
Canada. Australia and other ma
tions bordering the Pacific Ocean will
be concerned equally with the United
States. For Asiatics are finding bar
riers to entering those nations equal
to, or nearly SO, the exclusion acts
Of the United States. The develop
ment of the movement of a pan-Asi-
attic league, those who have followed
the movement understand, has been
stimulated in no small degree by the
argument among Asiatic radicals that
Western nations are leagued against
them.
At present Asia and the Far East
are officially cooperating with the
Western nations, since Japan, China
and India are members of the League
Of Nations. This new League of
Asiatic Peoples, though unofficial.
sets up competitive, or regional
league. If it should grow sufficiently
powerful, 1t might force the Sc separation
Of the Asiatic governments from the
League Of Nations, or at least create
an Asiatic bloc within the League
Of Nations. Here again are possibili-
other students Of world affairs.
Line Growing Sharper.
Various writers of late years have
been pointing out the growing line
Of demarcation between the white and
darker races. In Morocco and Syria
France has had to meet rebellions
somewhat akin to a broad racial re-
volt. England has had anxious hours
in India and Egypt. The United
States so far has had no armed out
break in the Philippines. the an.
nounced plan Of the independence
leaders being to achieve their obec-
tives by peaceful and legal means. but
that Gov. Gen. Wood has been fac
ing ever since he reached Manila a
grave situation no one in informed
circles will dispute.
Alarmtsts do nothing but harm, yet
a calm appraisal Of the conference in
Japan cannot fail to give 1t an impor-
tance far beyond the actual discus
sions of the delegates and their con-
crete actions, both of which were sub
dued by q plain warning from the
Japanese government The new
League of Asiatic Peoples has, besides
the one Filipino. six other directors,
two each from Japan, China and India.
The interval before the next congress
in Peking no doubt will see aggressive
proselyting work. Peking may be a.
hospitable meeting place, in view of
the determined efforts China has been
making to arrange new relations with
the Western powers.
y dispatch from Nagasaki closed
with the statement THE meeting was
generally considered unimportant and
unrepresentative of the various Asiatic
nations But. as the saying goes,
we shall see what we shall see"