Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
|CH|NESE WILL ASK
U.S.FOR EQUALITY
Young Nationalist in City to
Memorialize Congress
for Treaty.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Young Chinese Nationalist In WASH
ington are planning to commemorate
the fourth anniversary Of the death of
Sun Vat Sen, founder of the Chinese
republic. by memorializing the United
States Congress to grant China a full
treaty of international equality. The
submission of the memorial will be the
central feature of unique rites on the
evening of March IL. They will be held
at the Washington Club and be char
acterized by ancient ceremony held
amid native trappingS. An American
who played q role in the establishment
of the Chinese republic-Judge Paul M
Linebarger of the District of Columbia
bar-will take q prominent part in the
commemorative functions. Judge Line
barger formerly was on the bench of
the international court at Shanghai
and. legal adviser to Sun Vat Sen. He
also was the Chinese George Washing
tons" American biographer.
The memorial, which it is proposed to
present to the United States Congress,
reads as follows:
"On this 18th day Of March. 1929,
before the shrine which we raise to the
memory Of the founder of the Chinese
republic, we petition the abrcgation of
the unequal treaty existing between the
United States and China, and the SUBJ
stitution therefore, before the list day
Of January next, Of q treaty which,
founded upon the comfy, arnity and
justice which should exist among
nations, will promote friendship between
America and China, and assure to both
that complemental support so essen
tial to the peace of the whole world.
Troubles Held Not Internal.
"China's troubles are not internal
The political difficulties which now con-
front the Nationalist government of
China are due to the confusion resulting
China, an invasion In which this great
country participates under the authority
of a treaty obtained without the consent
of the Chinese people.
Russia, Germany and Austria, by the
abrogation Of their unequal treaties, are
in the enjoyment Of new opportunities
In China, and Italy on the first OF jan
uary next will enter the ranks of the
real friends Of the great Asiatic republic.
Shall America, the foremost nation in
wealth and the most powerful exponent
OF the rights of men and nations, still
continue to shackle China with the
chains Of foreign invasion?
I'VE voice the confidence we feel, and
OH OIAulA ACC1Sy AAA yOuL hCWiJ
Quoted President. Under a just treaty
he viii have q great opportunity to re-
adjust commercial conditions between
the two sister republics, so that the
great wealth Of each may prove COM
Elemental to the happiness and pros
perity of the other
I'VE memorabilia your honorable rep
resentation of the American people, by
urging that President Hoover be given
full and early opportunity, under
new treaty OF real friendship and COM
mercial and industrial cooperation, to
make the mastery Of the Pacific mas
terry of friendship and mutual service
between the two great republics"
Apparently Independent Move.
Apparently the young Chinese-for
the most part so-called Boxer indem-
nifty students attending American uni
verSities--are acting independently of
Or. G. G. WI, who Is about to become
the duly accredited Minister Of China
espouseS the same general cause UNDER
lying the memorial to Congress. He
has been in Washington for nearly a
year, laying the groundwork for Just
such an equal treaty as the young
Nationalist on March IL will ask. Since
DR.. Wu's arrival, the United states has
taken the lead In recognizing the new
Nationalist government at Marking and
In entering into the first tariff treaty
negotiated with it by any government.
The Senate has just ratified that treaty.
For the past few weeks, it is under
stood, DR.. WI has been in informal ne
gotiation with Secretary Kellogg and
the State Department, looking to the
conclusion Of a treaty which would In
particular abolish American extra ter
ritoriality in China. The Chinese are
sorely irked by the perpetuation of the
conditions whereby foreign powers still
have their independent judiciary sys-
TENS within Chinese territorial jurisdic-
ton. The American attitude toward
demand for abandonment of extra-ter
ritoriality has been consistently de-
clared to be an attitude Of readiness to
surrender the obnoxious system as soon
as the Chinese have something of their
own to offer, absolutely certain of safe
guarding foreign rights.
Reference to Troops Seen.
The foreign invasion" to which the
memorial to Congress refers Is evidently
the presence of foreign troops and gun
boats in China, which have been sta
toned there since the Boxer rebellion 20
years ago. The United States maintains