PROPOSED RENEWAL OF TREATY

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 113, 13 May 1921, Page 7

PROPOSED RENEWAL OF TREATY

OPPOSITION BY CHINA

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NEW YORK, 12th May.

Mr. B. L. Simpson, adviser to the Chinese President and Government Statistician, is .here conducting a campaign for the support of the United States and Dominion of Canada against a renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. He has already interviewed the Canadian Premier. ' '

China, he says, seeks the elimination of Article 21 from tho Treaty Covenant referring to the Monroe Doctrine, because she says that the British and Japanese will claim that the treaty is a regional understanding, so becoming the acknowledged law in the Orient".

Mr. Simpson predicts that Canada will make'a stand at the Imperial Conference next month against a renewal, of the treaty on the ground that it contains a danger of war between the United States and Japan; as China is contemplating appealing to the United States to stop Japanese oppression, and Japan's reply will be to ask for British support.