THE FAR EAST

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 176, 21 April 1921, Page 5

THE FAR EAST

CHINESE EMISSARY TO AMERICA ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY OPPOSED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Vancouver, April 18. Dr. Wang, Chief Justice of China, who is en route to Geneva, says he will spend a month in America endeavouring ■ to persuade Canada to oppose the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, and President Harding to disown the LansingIshii Notes of 1917. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[Notes were exchanged between Mr. Lansirig (then United States Secretary of Sta,te) and Viscount Ishii (head of tho Japanese Mission to the United States), in November, 1917, in which the United States Government recognised that Japan had special interests in China, and both Governments declared their adhesion to the principle of the "open door" in that country.] REPUBLIC OF CHITA ORDERED TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH JAPANESE. Washington, April 19. Government officials have been advised that tho Far Eastern Republic of Chita has received from the Bolshevik Government orders to avoid conflict with tho Japanese, and to negotiate a trade treaty with the latter, if possible.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPANESE DEFENCE SUBJECTS RECALLED FOR TRAINING. Washington, April 19. Official circles have been warneu that all Japanese between the ages of 21 and 37 years without previous service have been ordered to return for military training in Japan from the Philippines, East Indies, and the South Sea Islands. The officials point out that the order indicates a general inclination by Japan since the war of adopting more rigorous’ methods to place herself in a state of military and naval defence. Hitherto Japan has allowed considerable laxity in enforcing the law providing for milltan’ training of subjects abroad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.