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CHINA AND JAPAN,
A FLEA FOR AMITY.
PERTINENT COMMENT BY A PEKING JOURNAL.
of each other which they entertain: The two nations have got to puli together. How, otherwise, is a Batis. factory solution of the racial question to be reached? Is Japan to, cham pion the cause of the yellow race alone, nassisted, without any help whatever from the country which has nearly a quarter of the entire in- The N. C. Standard of December habitants of the globe as her popula 19 writes as follows:-China has tion? Such a position is intolerable, more to gain from a close friendship and the Chinese would be wise to with Japan than from the continu make haste to recognize that Japan, ance of a policy which has been en in putting forward this question, is gineered from a false view point of serving the whole of the Orient. the interests of the two countries. The League of Nations is still in its Japan has been blamed for the in- infancy.,. There are those who think ability of China to secure the return it will not get much of the former German possessions,
A BEWILDERED WORLD
SIR A. MONDA VIEWS.
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WA
Sir. Alfred Mond, First Commis sioner of Works, entertained the members of the Local War Records Conference to dinner at the Cal Hotel, London.
of the war. They had had a consi derable amount of history, of political and military surveys, of autobiogra... phy and gossip-laughter) and it was time that the, observer and} scientific man began to sit down and provide posterity, as nearly as he could, with a true account of what bad happened economicaly in the various countries during the war.
task The
would not be easy, because there was a tendency in each country to demonstrate to all the others its enormous superiority as financler, administrator, and bureaucrat (laughter) and there would be a competition among those dealing The task was with the subject. rendered more difficult because we were at the beginning rather than the end of the economic history of the war, None of them knew after bow many years, if ever, they would reach the final result of this enormous upheaval,"
In proposing "The Economic His tory and War Survey and Co-opera tion between British and American Historians and Economists," he said that their object was to bring to further. | gether an international staff of his America's refusal to become a mem-torians to provide the world with But under the circumstances it is ber is distinctly disappointing. What, a true economic history and survey well nigh impossible to see, even at then, is to be the outcome? The Na- this late hour, how the Chinese peo-- tions must continue to trust for their ple could have thought the Peace security in armaments and Treaties Council would have awarded other. Viscount Ishii has done nothing wise. Had the claims of Japan not more than his duty in reporting to proved paramount, it is questionable journalists that armaments were whether the Allied Statesmen would increasing. How can it be otherwise have considered the time opportune when the countries of the world to hand back to Ching what she had realise that the League of Nations is so willingly conceded to Germany, not dependable? Mankind has not It cannot be forgotten-that she made undergone great changes through the no effort herself to get back what terrible afflictions of the last few she handed to the former enemy of years. If the League of Nations can the Allies. It was left to Japan, ald- not accomplish what it was establish- ed by some British troops, to ousted to carry out, then other ways and Germany from her territory in China. means have to be adopted for pro The presence in China, too, of Ger- tection to be guaranteed. A power- many was a source of danger to ful army and navy are indispensable China as well as to Japan. This once to security if the League of Nations powerful military nation might one becomes impotent Japan has done day have become to Japan and Ching the utmost in her power to make that a great menace threatening, indeed, combination the success it ought to thele independence. China was to have been. She is not anxious to blame for Germany's presence in her build a gigantic navy nor, indeed, to Tand. She undertook no respon have to carry the burden entailed by sibility for getting her out again. the maintenance of a large army, Yet when the work had been done bubthe inevitable fact is apparent,... · BEWILDERED NAVIGATORS, without any regard, whatever to the Armaments are increasing, and will cost of the undertaking, she desired continue to do.so if the League of to step in and reap where others had Nations fails to obtain the support sown. It will be stated that Japan it requires to make it authoritative. promised to hand back Kiaochau to Japan does not contemplate war es China when she announced her in pecially with China, nor does she tention of retaking it from Germany. wish it. Her great desire is to work This is the case, and China can have with her in the closest of co-operation, the district back when she is ready. If the future of Shantung were left to negotiate with Japan on the sub-to the League of Nations, that body they had very little time for Ject of the transfer. The attitude of could not do other than hand it to an economic survey (laughter) the Chinese people in this matter Japan, for until there is a united but the effect of the war on the has been inexplicable. It has been China bow can y impartial tribunal future economic history of the world unworthy of them. At no time has consider that would be for the must be sweeping. A great many of It been anything, but irreconcilable ultimate good the world that the illusions of the past had been with what ought to have character China should be given the administra destroyed. Would the gold standard. Fised the prospect of negotiations betion of a territory that has been endure? Were they going back to tween two countries most alike la successfully controlled while it has the bondage of yellow metal or to sail colour, aims and their proximity to been under foreign supervision. Japan into prosperity on paper? (Laughter.) each other Japan's future is not has invited Chiga to negotiate with Was deflation a necessity, or merely altogether disconnected with China's her anent the handing back of the a phrase from obsolete tiles? and vice versa.While to-day there former German region. She will (Renewed laughter.) How would are a number of unwise Chinese men withdraw her troops from there once countriesgo on fighting without and women who assert that their she has reliable" guarantees that industry or credit? And yet in Poland country must have no friendly deal China Intends to act honestly in the and Russia war had become the only Ings with Japan, it is indisputable affair. But for Japan to permit remunerative occupation. (Laughter) that if the Orient is to prosper, as we herself to be bullied into handing Having devoted some part of his should like to see It, China and Japan back the districtshe holds by virtue youth to the study of economics, have got to work together amicably, of the Versailles Treaty, would be an these things had come to him as a Just as France and Great Britain act calculated in lower her preation great shock, but he hoped that the "bart.ontheir" DIAMIRINCH IN understu stigma, CyCT U
(Dethodozumiewamwould yas justify safeguard their interents, so the time - to encourage, has come for China and Japan toto continue their. meet in order to dis al the auspicion will between her a
foster:
China
They were like bewildered, navi. gators on a raftina stormy sea, with- put compass and with very little sail and slight knowledge where they were going, but hoping that some land would turn up on which they could they deposit themselves before were engulfed. They were so busy sticking to the raft that
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