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S Chief Proponent of I Equal Advantages Japan I Wants ants P Privileges B By WILLIAM WILLIAM PHILIPS SIMMS Written Especially for Newspaper Enter Enter- Association Service I WASHINGTON Oct 28 China 28 China will stake ke her very existence on the doctrine of-I of I of ot the open door being made really ef ef- by the great powers powel's at tho Pacific conference Unable to defend herself against foreign foreign foreign for for- eign aggression China Is to realize realize realize real real- ize that unless the United States Great Britain and Japan not only a agree ree among themselves to live up to the letter and spirit of ot this doctrine but enter into somo kind of ot a pact as well to guarantee It against violation she is virtually doomed The situation In China toda today is doomed merely an Intensified form of what It was in 1900 the critical period o of Hay flay when il mi JI Germany had got gt a strangle e eol hold ol on Sh Shantung Shantung Shan Shan- I tung when Russia was preparing to grab Manchuria and France Trance Great Britain and Japan were staking out claims OPEN DOOR VIOLATED Only by the strict application of the open door policy can China be saved now The spirit of the open door doctrine to which all the great rent powers subscribed at the beginning has been flagrantly violated violated violated vio vio- by every everyone one of these powers save the United States Germany Russia and Japan were the principal offenders But these violations came before or during the war when little attention was being paid to what was going on In China I Now it is different Europe has ceased to be bo a market for the surplus good of off I the world The Thear war ar has killed trade there for years to come Asia has become the new battleground of commerce and an any power which tries to i hog hOI this trade by bv any of the old time I tricks will do s so at the price of blood U U. 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S HAS OBJECTIONS I Now China Is Is' Is convinced ced that Americas America's policy at the Pacific conference will be ba what It was when Secretary an announced announced nn- nn It t in 1900 to 1900 to safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial Impartial Impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese empire Believing this China Chin stands prepared to go to the mat with the other powers on this Issue and and to live lI or die b by the outcome outcome out out- come Furthermore China Chin expects the United States at the conference to tell the other powers powers- there what It told Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia In 1902 Russia was about to obtain obtain ob ob- tain from China exclusive rights and I privileges in Manchuria Such arrangements the note stated could but be viewed with the gravest concern by the United States It constitutes con con- I a monopoly which Is a distinct con I breach of the stipulations of treaties concluded concluded con con- eluded between China and foreign powers and thereby seriously affects the rights of American citizens HISTORY REPEATED It restricts their rightful trade and exposes it to being discriminated against with or otherwise jeopardized and strongly tends towards permanently Imp Impairing the sovereign rights of China The only difference In the Manchurian situation now now from what It was wh when n America gave Russia this rap rap over the knuckles Is that Japan occupies the place of Russia and the stakes are more Important important Im Im- Dr Sun Tat Sen and other well med informed Chinese maintain there Is no open door In China today toda They say sav Japan principally principally prin prin- has bas closed it It and are asking asking- If the Pacific conference will onen open It and I nail l It open e as It must be If the peace of t eJ rl I the world o Is to be preserved e BRITAIN HOSTILE I Pessimists In the Far East say sav not only I Japan but Great Ore Britain as well will OPpose on- on pose pose P a practical effective wide open door In China I They claim the United States riven viven i It fair field and no favors fa can cin ruin England and nd Japan Janan In a race raco for trade In the orient There is not enough trade to go round and If It America succeeds Japan and England must fall faiL This being true they argue Japan Tapan wilt wll demand nd recognition of her special rights In Jn Manchuria Mongolia l and Siberia and Great Britain will make malte no great preat outcry against 1 her Britain they say will work her oer own sphere of Influence on the theTa I Ta Yangtze A CHINESE PARABLE The rhe Chinese view Is exactly opposite to I this t n a I prosperous city I Is sudden- sudden i- i ly swept b by a great fire Dr Quo of Canton Canton Canton Can Can- ton said to me For Tor a time the merchants mer- mer m r- r chants of or that city would suffer because the purchasing power of the population ruined by bj the conflagration would be greatly reduced Theoretically 4 two alternatives tl es es would ibe be presented to the merchants the big merchants could burn out all the theother theother theother other merchants thus forcing all the trade into their own hands or they might call calla a meeting meeting- and agree to share what trade there was rimming expenses wherever possible and helping all the they could to get the community on Its Us feet again Dr Quo compared the Washington conference conference conference con con- ference to this meeting of the merchants It remains to be seen he said whether they will go ahead trim ex expenses expenses expenses ex- ex by reducing international armament armament armament arma arma- ment and turn to putting the war stricken strick strick- en world back on its feet thereby feet thereby restorIng restoring restoring 1 ing trade to normal normal or or whether they will I break up In a misunderstanding and set I about to burn each other out to capture the little trade that's left I China at the conference will pin her faith to the open door She must Without Without With With- I out It she must become the new cockpit I i i of a new fight air among on the powers the powers the loser lOiter no matter who wins I I |