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Show DISPLEASED Willi m III PARLEY REFUSAL OF JAPAN TO RELINQUISH RELIN-QUISH MANCHURIA RENEWS WITHDRAWAL TALK Japanese Find Shantung Unprofitable And Seek To Trade It For Advantage; Ad-vantage; China Will Not Get Japan Out of Manchuria Washington A forecast of what China will get out of Washington conference con-ference was made Sunday by a member mem-ber of the American state department who is thoroughly familiar with far eastern conditions and with inside negotiations ne-gotiations at this conference. These things are : 1. Complete restitution of Shantung, providing Japan's rights in Manchuria are recognized. 2. Restitution of the British leasehold lease-hold at Wei.Hei-Wei : the French lease at Kwangchouwan. 3. Increase of tariff rates 4. Removal of foreign postoffices. 5. Conditional removal of foreign troops. 6. Commission to study withdrawal of extraterritorial rights. 7. Reaffirmation of the territorial and administrative integrity of China, with a new definition of the "open door" nnd a recognton of what constitutes con-stitutes China. None of these things has been done yet except the last, but the conference Is moving toward some such consummation. consum-mation. China will not get Japan out of Manchuria, Man-churia, nor will she get back the British Brit-ish strongholds in China. Nothing but force can remove these things, and America has Informed China that she cannot expect America to go to war for her or to put herself In a position where war Is probable. Without formally recognizing Japan's Jap-an's "special interests" In Manchuria and thus strengthening her hold there permanently, it is evident that fbe A-merican A-merican policy is not to insist on the American Interpretation of the "open door" in that part of the world. To insist upon it means war, and the American delegates feel that the people peo-ple would not back them np In this. To insist upon It also would Imperil the success of the conference. The big thing that is being done is to start China In the way of helping herself. If she wants to get rid of Japan Ja-pan she will have to do it herself. The question of financial aid for China has gone under the surface during dur-ing the week. The statement of Mr. Hanihara. "Japanese delegate, in committee com-mittee that the international consortium consort-ium had recognized Japan's rights In Manchuria has not made the consortium consort-ium any more popular with the Chinese, Chin-ese, and his statement Is denied by consortium authorities. A new consortium con-sortium will have to be arranged If Chinese cooperation Is expected, nnd without the Chinese the bankers can do nothing. Chinese today express disnpolntnient over the trend of affairs nnd talk again of withdrawing from the conference. They declare they will not recognize Japnn's Manchurlan leases, and if file conference does they will walk out. Japan is making a special drive for this, and there Is danger that the delegates dele-gates will maneuver into some statement state-ment of position that will afterward be interepeted by Japan ns the Lanslng-Ishi Lanslng-Ishi note was Interpreted. It is the hope of the American delegates that through public opinion nnd the attitude atti-tude of the nations, informally expressed, ex-pressed, Japan may be led to change her tactics in the far east. The Siberian situation has not come up yet, and Mr. Hughes' declaration of the duty of the other nations to set up n "moral trusteeship" over that country coun-try remains to be translated into something some-thing definite. Chinese and Japanese delegates v.flll meet Monday for further conversations over the Shantung In the presence of American and British observers. Japan Jap-an has found that occupation unprofitable unprofit-able and wants to get out. but nt the same time wants to make a bargocn over withdrawal. |