CHINA’S ENEMIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 9

CHINA’S ENEMIES.

“UNTENABLE DOCTRINES.” STATEMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE. Vancouver, April 18. Dr. Wang Cung Hui, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China, has arrived at Vancouver. He intends to spend a few weeks in Ottawa and Washington on his way to Geneva, to which he is going as one of ten delegates selected to revise the Covenant of the League of Nations. Dr. Wang frankly states that it is China’s intention to fight for her rights publicly. He will spend a month in America learning the official attitude regarding the international issues. Dr. Wang says: “China has three dread enemies, and not one of these three is Japan. The first enemy is Article 21 of the Covenant, which lays down the untenable doctrine of so-called regional understandings, which is a direct challenge to China’s integrity and destructive to the League itself. The second enemy is tl|e Anglo-Jap-anese Alliance, which, Dr. Wang hopes to show Canadians, will, if renewed in any China must necessarily participate, aiding the United States. The third enemy i<s the Lansing-Ishii exchange of notes, with their untenable doctrine that geographical propinquity confers rights. Dr. Wang says that China is determined to force these issues.

China’s anxiety on the Pacific question has been deepened by the recent discovery that Japanese arsenals are manufacturing large quantities of marine mines, using American and British steel, and that the China coast has been marked into blockade zones, which, in case of war, would control raw materials.