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Show I WILSON REVIEWS I PASTJN CHINA Foreign Nations Obtained Concessions and U. S. Made No Protest. I SHANTUNG SEIZURE League Now Provides Means to Approach Governments And Say "Can't Be Done.'' B SAN FRANCIS O. Sept 17. Re- ! minding that in the past when foreign nations had obtained concessions in China, tho United States had made no protest, President Wilson today declared de-clared the peace treaty -nrith its league, r f nations, provided a ba?is on which i he United Slates could Bay "It can't H be done. ' "And, if necessary," he con tinued, the United States could say It shall not be done " The presid i .spoke at a luncheon given by the as sociated women's organizations H j Touching upon the seizure of Shan- H tung during President McKlnley'sl H term. President Wilson paid a Irihule; H to that executive as "a high-minded) H man " "Whenever, formerly, anything H was done in detriment of the interests of China, we had to approach the government gov-ernment that did It with apologies," H said Mr. V.'ilson. "Now. when you I have the treaty and the league f na- H i-ions, the representative of the United! I, States has the right to stand up and H say 'This is against the covenant of peace It can t be done.' And, if occasion oc-casion arises, we can add. It shall not be don Mr Wilson declared China was I forced to cede the Shantung conces-H conces-H sions to Germany and then was oblig-I oblig-I ed to cede Port Arthur to Russia "Then." he continued, "England must needs have Wei Hei Wei as an equiva H, lent concession to that made to Ger-1 i I many And presently certain ports i ' and territory back of them were ceded upon similar principles to Prance. E i IE I erybody got in except the United . II The scheduled trip to the Stanford , Hi I university this afternoon by the presl Hi dontial party was cancelled aftei Pr - , HI ident Wil-on arrived here. , IK HI NEW YORK, Sepl !". Eariiohn !?- i HI Q Valcra, ' president of the Irish republif . i HI I "aid tonight that ih objections of the i HI I Irish people to tin- pi op. iKue r.l Hi r nation? covenant arc nol at all those sujg I HI k jrestcd by the questions put today to , t HfL President Wilson by the S.n Fran is. .. . HI labor council The second question, Mr. Hf PeValcra added, was framed too Ind- f H inltely to "muko the reply of any value i Mt 'Nobody hat held 'it any time." hr j i Hi said, "that under the covenant tht- r HI United States would be obliged to pu; ' i down a rebellion of the subjects of . n member of the league What has been i Hi H held is that under ihe covenant, the 1 HI I United States would be obliged to cooperate coop-erate with other members of the leapuo i in preventing any nation that mipht b sympathetic With the rebels from Riving Riv-ing them assistance. The framing f the second question is altogether too indefinite to make tlv reply of any value. The point Is, could the United State's rei ocnize the government govern-ment set up by the people of Ireland without violating the terms of the covenant. cov-enant. If, as is certain, the British government gov-ernment protested" "As regards question three, th point la that the i-ipM of national self- k termination ter-mination is in no way recognized in lii proposed foundation for the league, untjh there i - no guarantee that it win be recognised rec-ognised when the league is established. With respect to question four, an J the president's answer. 1 need only to saj that the narrowing down and Hm'ta? i lions of the peace conference to only' in h matters SS affected territories be-lodglng be-lodglng to the defeated empires was altogether al-together out of accord with the aims, of America us enunciated by the president presi-dent and the professions of the entente statesmen dtnnti? th- w.tv The best commentary com-mentary on ail titis is the cabled statement state-ment of fan MacPlierson, thi British rhicf so ere tan for Ireland, appearing in! today's papers; " When Great Britain signed the armistice ar-mistice terms she nsreed to Presid nt Wilson's principles including the light of self-determination lor small nations. Ubt she did not agree to the application get Shantung away from Japan was to go to war. a woman near the front ot the hall asked "What Is the league ot nations for then? ' The president, continuing his sentence, said the league offered for the first time ! o. tribunal before which China cou.d bring her complaints about the wrongs ' I she had suffered for years The crowd j rherri-(l I h.- statement nn |