CHINA’S VOICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1921, Page 5

CHINA’S VOICE.

JEALOUS OF JAPAN, ALLIANCE WITH BRITAIN. OPPOSED BY CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Assa.—Copyright. Received Nev. 8, 8 p.m. Washington, Nov. 7 The United Press correspondent interviewed the Chinese delegations to the conference, when they outlined China’s position. They stated that China desires Japan's power to be pared down to the grade of others in the East, and not that the others be built up to equality with Japan’s preferential position. China is opposed to the maintenance of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but would gladly be a party to an American-Anglo-Jap an esc-Chinese Alliance, based on goodfellowship. China will demand a restriction of Japan’s influence in Manchuria, on the theory that Japan is reaching out beyond her former South Manchurian railway rights. China will also demand the restoration of her former German possessions, now held by Japan merely because China was too weak to refuse the twenty-one demands.

The New York Times’ Washington correspondent interviewed Mr. Lenox Simpson, adviser to the Chinese delegation. He said that during the Imperial Conference China notified the London Government that any new agreement made in connection with the Japanese Alliance must be ratified by the Canadian Parliament before it could be binding on the Canadian people. No matter what occurs, it now seems impossible that the alliance will be renewed in any form, since it would require six ratifications before it became binding, on every part of the British Empire, all the ■ Dominions naturally demanding the same } status as Canada.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STATEMENT BY M. BRIAND. FRENCH GOODWILL. i New York, Nov. 7. MM. Briand, Viviani, Sarraut, Berthelot, Admiral Lebon and General Buat, have arrived in New York and proceeded direct to Washington. M. Briand, in a statement, said he intended to demonstrate France’s earnest goodwill towards the Washington Conference by every means in his power. He declared that, provided France has nothing to fear for her security, she is ready to join every endeavor to avert new conflicts. France and America were yesterday united on the battlefields and will continue to play their beneficient part in deriving from the common victory such results as conform to the idealism i ever animating them. THE OPEN DOOR. CHIEF BULWARK OF PEACE. Washington, Nor. 7. The United Press is informed on the highest authority that the American Government regards the open door doctrine as the chief bulwark of Far Eastern peace. It considers the limitation of armamenta would be dangerous and tend to breed, rather than prevent, war, unless preceded by a definite understanding that *ll Asia shall be open to all alike : for commercial enterprises, free from political dominion which would threaten to make a trade monopoly. Special agreements like the Anglo-Jap-anese Alliance, therefore, are regarded unfavorably by the United States, which will frankly urge that it be scrapped. A SOVIET PROTEST. Helsingfors, Nov. 7. Tehieherin has forwarded to the vari-' ons Governments represented at the Washington Conference a Note protesting against the Soviet not having been invited on the ground that the q lestion directly affects Russian interests.