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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

1994.

POINTS STRATEGISTS

MAY MISS

NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SEA POWER

By LT-CMDR. KENNETH 'EDWARDS, R.N. (RET.) London is now the rendezvous for representatives of the three greatest maritime Powers-the British Empire, the United States of America, and Japan. Conversations are going on almost daily, either at Downing Street or in a famous West End hotel--conversations which are being closely watched by France and Italy, which one may term the runners-up in sea power.

SACRIFICES

These talks are preliminary account of this. They laid down Thoir object is to explore every a number of thou shalt not's,” Avenue and perform all the other Documents were signed, sealed and familiar evolutions of conferences, delivered which could not, by their Only time can tell what they are very nature, prove effective in to be preliminary to. They may achieving either of the objectives, foreshadow compromises and sac- rifices which will enable a further naval limitation Treaty to be As for the contribution made to drawn up. On the other hand, the general ponce by the Washing their direct result may be the ton Treaty, that, too, is negativo. abrogation of existing treaties And the reason lies in it wrong without setting anything in their 1sychology in the drawing up of place. There would follow the Treaty. Its provisions regard. restricted competition in navaling the size of ships have caused armaments. The clock would be great dissatisfaction in the British put back to pre-War years-with Fampire, an Empire whose psycho- the additional complication that logs is and always has been sway there would be at least three com-led by a desire for security without petitors Instead of only two K There were prior to 1914.

un-

There is no doubt that the object of all three of the participants in the present talks is to avert the financial burdens inseparable from:

unrestricted armament race Yet there seems at the moment to be sennt chance of any agreement. being renched, no diverse are the views of the three Powers co

FUSI

cerned,

DIVERSITY

With mutual objective, one would imagine that agreement would speedily be reached. But

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The United States is satisfied with the existing Treaties and does not wish to have them altered: Least of all does she wish to sce any modifiention of the 5.5-3 ratio- which she considers to be the very core of naval limitation since the War. The basic reason why she wishes to preserve the existing state of affairs is because it en- aures the inferiority of Japan at rèn.

LAND SCANDAL IN PHILIPPINES

INVESTIGATION IN LEGISLATURE

JAPANESE PROBLEM

last session of the legislature when resident commissioner at Washing-

Representative Jorge Delgado, now

ton, said the situation was becom- |ing increasingly serions.

The qucation entered the halls of the constitutional convention, which drafted the constitution for the waste and an innate reluctance to

[Philippine commonwealth, when ace too many eggs in one basket. The ratio fixed by the Washington

Delegate Pantaleon Pelayo from Treaty-the -- ratio for the of overseas trade and growing Japan, with a growing volume,

Davao, pointed to alleged facts naval strengths of the British responsibilities in the Far East, Empire, the United States and feels that she can no longer toler

regarding irregularities in land The land situation in the pro-transactions. racial pride of a great Japan-Hew in the face of the Fate treaties which place her in a vince of Davao, Mindanao, in which

nation position of open and avowed in-apanese settlers figure prominent- He made a direct statement any which was and still is, growing feriority. This is particularly the, has been made the subject of ning that some officials in Davas aro upside,

case since she feels that she is thorough investigation by ʼn special į involved in supposedly shady land

Eastern nation possessed of in- To impose inferiority upon

tens pride of rare-a nation in which the losing of "face" is the dearliest of sin was to now a red of unrest which has resulted in a growth of casily to be up- there such paychological diver ruote. Worse, the establishment sity between the three participants of the ratio on the basis of a to the conversations as to threaten mathematical certainty of inferior- serious breaches, in part, the

ity was blazoned

upon every situation to-day is due to neglect possible occasion.

Subsequent events have by no of the paychological factors in the, framing of the earller Treaties means improved matters. Japan's those of Washington in 1922 and seizure of Manchukuo la inter- of London in 1930.

preted by the United States as an The Washington Conference set infringement of the status quo and out "desiring to contribute to the of the "open door" in China. The maintenance of the general peace States and Soviet Russia is Inter- rapprochement between the United and to reduce the burdens of compreted by Japan as an upsetting petition in Armament," to quote of the status que and from the preamble to the Treats threat to Japan.

a defnile Beyond the arresting of large

buliding programmes which were

Two facts stand out with regard

then threatened, and which lack to Japan. One is the necessity

for territory to accommodate her

other is her dependence upon sen- borne trade.

of necessity would surely have growing surplus population. The reduced if not arrested, the Wash- ington Treaty has proved a failure so far as reducing the burdens of competition in armaments is con- cerned. The reason for its failure in this direction was that it fixed

The United States, on the other and, does not desire further ter- ritory, nor is she dependent upon the size of sulps too high and, by very few of the necessitles of life.

sea-borne trade for more than a the imposition of arbitrary limits. She is concerned with prosperity instituted another race in arm-and, with her European markets ments a race in which a striving dwindling daily, she finds it to include the maximum of "power" essential to preserve and enlarge into a fixed Treaty tonnage took the vast markets of China for the the place of a race in the size and absorption of her exports. number of warships built.

The financial effect of this new not desirous of any further ter The British Empire is certainly race is clearly seen from the fact ritory. She is concerned solely that HMS. Maluya-n battleship with the protection of her citizens completed five years before the and the long sen-borne communi- calling of the Washington Con-cations linking them together and ference-cost under £3,000,000, whereas H.M.S. Rodney, a mitic: upon which flows the trade with ship completed five years after the which Great Britain cannot signing of the Washington Treaty, cost close on £7,500,000. The cost

SECURITY FIRST of wages and materials has, of From these faels one can deduce course, risen in the interval, but with fair accuracy the wide to nothing like the same extent psychological differences which as the fise in the coat of warship separate the Powers whose repre- production. The balance is due to sentatives are, how conferring in the new "power" race in armia-London. nients,

The British Empire feels dis- In cruiser construction the rise satisfied with the existing Trenties in cost is even greater,

because they have produced waste This new competition is dictated and do not give her the protection largely by psychology. Every which she needs for her sea-borne virile man is spurred on to do communications. Moreover, she butter than his neighbour, Were feels somewhat cheated in that it not for this trait the world she made more sacriflees "in the would be a world of drones and cause of peace" than any other tecay would speedily set in. The nation, and those sacrifices appear naval limitation Treaties took no to have been made in vain.

exist.

FOTOGRAFIEREN

VERBOTEH!

AUCHENI VERBOTEN.

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becoming somewhat hemmed in by committee on public lands of the transactions with Japanese nation- Russia and the United States.

Philippines legislature, which is als. With such a divergence of views and feelings the prospect of agree holding public hearings to receive

There are estimated to be nearly ment cannot be said to be any complaints until December 8.

20,000 Japanese In Davao. They thing but gloomy. But much can be achieved if only there is a

Persistent charges of irregular cultivate 34,000 hectares of land, xenuine attempt on each side to ties in the acquisition of public of which 8,000 is public land. The understand, not only the claims; lands in Davao by aliens, particu. Japanese control the majority of but the underlying Сдинем and arly the Japanesc, made on the business in the province. The feelings which prompt the claims floor of the legislature and the cen- chief industry is the raising of of the others. It is as well to bear stitutional convention, prompted in mind the fact that the udcom-the investigation. promising refusal of a claim baséd

upon 'a "nation's conviction of Representative Antonia 7. Argo- justice, is a far surer method of sino, chairman of the committee getting that claim put into effect promised a thorough inquiry. than an attitude of understanding | and the patient suggestion of com- promise.

The Devao question, of long standing, bobbed up anew in the

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