NATIONS IN CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14818, 5 December 1921, Page 5

NATIONS IN CONFERENCE

CHINESE DEMANDS. REGARDED AS IMPRACTICABLE. PROPOSALS REGARDING MANCHUR (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn:.);': X Received December 5, 9.30 a.m. *~ ■ . WASHINGTON, December 4. Baron Kato, having consulted with Tokio, stales that the congestion. of : cables on the Pacific line will cause a' ' delay in the actual announcements till the end of the week, Baron Kato notsf| liking to proceed without the 'Japa-\, 1 nese Cabinet's acquiescence, though | undoubtedly he could do so if ed. The .Chinese are fighting their hardest for the early complete cation of Senator Root's principles, butjr|l this will not be done. ' They <vill be-. '% told positively that any such action/ 1 : is out of the question at this juncture-,-'''■: internal conditions not warranting it,' r and the Powers will' arrive at a complete understanding as to how . to V handle Chinese matters. It is' not thought likely that France , ; will retire from Kwanchoeyan while % the British and Japanese hold Kwoloon and the Liaotung Peninsular- All i round a great deal more has been done than people realise. Mr Reinsch, a former United States Minister to 'China, points out to-night ; ,.: that the consortium never recognised ; Japan's vital interest in* Manchuria, biit **, agreed that no loans should be used in 'M Manchuria affecting the interests 6f ; 'y Japan there. The general impression '(, here is that Japan will never give 'up -.■/; Manchuria. This is confirmed by Mr ' \ Hanihara's speech. ■''«. ,fe v Speculation concerning future ar-.. ;it rangements offers two interesting sug'-- -, gestions-r-first, that Japan should pur-'' chase the whole territory outright i§ from China; and, secondly, that Man-.-.' churia should declare her dence, ask for the protection of Japan, and grant Japan perpetual sovereign.;prerogatives over the Liaotung Penin--/ sula. This latter proposal is to the relations between the Panama"'...£. Republic, and the United States. ; ~„.