SECRET TREATIES
AMERICA AND THE JAPANESE
QUESTION
MR. LANSING'S ADMISSIONS
By Telegraph—FreE 6 Association-CopyriEUi Washington, August 11. In tho United Stales Senate- 31 r. Lans. ins (Secretary of Stale) reiterated tho statement tbat Viscount Ishii, former Japanese- Ambassador, had failed to tellhim that Japan had secret treaties with the Allies for the division of tho Chinese territory captured from the Germans. Mr. Balfour and Lord Beading had also kept silent about Britain's secret treaty with Japan. Ho-knew nothing of tho secret agreements till February, i 1919. Ho did not know whether Viscount p Ishii deliberately concea'.cd the secret treaties. He did know three years agotlmt Britain and Japan had agreed to' divide the Pacific J3lallds.tll-.it had been taken from Germany.
Regarding the Lansing-'fchii agreement, Mr. Lansing: stated that he suggested to Viscount Ishii that it would be wall for the two Government 1 -' to reaffirm the Open-Door Policy tor China, on the grounds that reports were being- spread that Japan intended to take advantage of fcho war conditions to spread her influence in China. Viscount Ishii,-he said, thought that Japan's special interest in China should be recoEiiised. Rl*r. Lansing replied that the United States recognised that Japan's geographical position gave her a peculiar interest in China, 'but. that the danger of putting it "in any agreement was that it might be misconstrued, and he therefore objected to it. He also told Viscount Ishii that if ''special interest" meant "paramount interest," he could not discuss the matter further.—Reutar.
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Washington, August 11
President Wilson, repCyinc to a resolution of the Senate, stated that lio did not know, of any treaty between Japan and Germany that had bean made during the war, though ho had heard rumours, lio had no information that tho Japarieso (lniegatea in Pari6 attempted to intimidnto the Chinese Pcaco delegates.—Aus.<N.Z. Cable Assn. '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 272, 13 August 1919, Page 7
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