Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1921, Page 3

STAR. WASHINGT( Big Developments Seen in Harmony of League Delegates With Former American Opponenis CONFERENCE HERE | CHNESE PRESIDENT SEVEN: REGIONS IN CHINA HELD pRITEGTS PR 1S MDDLE GROLND | DSBS s oo meuin ol INCHNESEHERE MANY IRISH BONDS SOLD. —_— Jobn McCormack, Tenor, Buys Cae of $1,000 Denomination. Encouraged by several substantial purchases of bonds, including one of $1,000 denomination by John McCor mick, noted tenor, those in charge of the Second external loan to Ireland feel confident that the $100,000 quota aliotted to the District of Columbi will be subscribed by December 1. according to Anthony J. Barret chairman of the local committee i charge of the campaign. Frank P. Walsh will preside at mass meeting to_be held under the CONFERENCE ALREADY ° RANKS AMONG GREAT WORLD PARLIAMENTS By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. At the end of the third full week of the armament conference there i6 to be recorded as part of te sum of definite achievements, President Harding’s crystallization of the whole world's purpose for peace; Secretary Hughes' revoiutionary plans for naval reduction; a “bill of rights” for China that assures that nation’s national integrity and free opportunity for self-sover- cignty, thus ending the menace of Armor Plate Orders Reported Canceled By Tokio in Germany AMSTERDAM, December 2— The Nieuwe Courant says today that Japan has canceled large erders for armor plate and barbed wire in Germ: i | : 1 | y. Result of Two Wars. German Interests Pass to ]apan as Believes Results Will position, Continue Openly Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. ) Be Attained. to Voice Disapproval. Three Owned Outright —Russian and Europe Sits Face to Face| {Hopes for Square Deal and| Students, Leaders of Op- Is Found Monster. | presiden of the league’ assembly, | Carefully Refrain From Utterance | i REGARD FOR NICETIES on Any Sentiment Concern- ing League. BY WILLIAM 7. ¥ The the last league of { natic s n thember of the | Washing nee. That lumin- | tangled up with < problems is 15 designed to be s fct show s meeti fetly limited in its scope. A1l un- | ntentionally there has been created a melting pot of n:(umlur.\l.nul-‘ s and prejudices ope sits face | with America, and neither | other onster. The mere | a o, points to srtant develog thongh i commection is provic | e at the conferenee - | Netherl 1s delegation, | Minister Jonk. van Ka . b pre mber ses? sions of U neva Could Turn to Leaders. Should the president of that a ¢ be asked a difficult question, nator Johnson o nator Bol one of the countless dinners of ficial set that ma in nightly acress the social horizon shington would not have to upon his own judgment in mak- reply. He conld easily turn, pro! tt the same dinner table, to Mr. I i ession i W Iy , who b he outstand ntiary of the council of he league. The urbane Mr. Balfour : wild be quite Likely to call into the | her otficial of the) French envoy to Genev, ternational amenities were | observed, all for the full | ¢ enlightenment of inqui it would be na Schanzer. who rep neva, to be asked ind the hard-headed and on; hted Minister ek would not + arned not Ikinds of theor League Propaganda Absent. These gentlemen all trained statesmen for the niceties of change, and n ternational inter- »f them is doing any propag: the league, in which the: Trey are perfectly aware that the league has hecom n issue 1in American domes- politics, and so they carefully ab- ain from the publ utterance of ven the most ocuous sentiments neerning it. With true Dutch pru- . Minister Karnebeek is scarcely willing to admit openly that he reall wus president of the league assembly much less to declare that in his heart he is convinced that the logic of vents is drawing this conference and his league irresistibly together. vertheless, when gathered “under he rose,” with his official and social and his associates in the league cannot decline to answer prop- er_questions, Americans are asking such ques- tions. All far-seeing publicists per- ceive that the Washington conference {cannot be Hmited to its agenda, much a single meeting. Already n has been made for commis- t upon Chinese condi- mination of the facts These commissions can- orphans at birth. All are being discussed s to what sort of continuation con- ference is to be provided for. and what form of association of nations is 1o be the ultimate world organiza- ion. tield. made n th Subject Merely Touched. President Harding merely touched upon the subject that lay “on the surface of his sor once phr; d it, and straightway there arose « world-wide clamor over his meaning. In truth, he meant none of the things attributed to him, ave that he, like all other respon- sible statesmen, is considering how in due time, this notable American conference is t prolonged and ex- panded. It muft not be overlooked that Fresident Harding, as well as his lat in the Senate and his pre abinet, is also meeting informally and Her intimately the disti hed officials of the league »f nations who are now in Wash- ington. One of the conceptions of world o-operation_which found favor im- mediately after President Harding™s recent utterances was that of a series «f group conferences—the Washing- ton conference to confine itself to the Paci and the far east, the existing league of nations to be a European federation, and the Pan-American al SPECIAL NOTICES. HAM AND. MESOPO 3000 BCST Wil e the subject of an | i ure by T eorge S, Duncan, | - the Washington Classical Club, in the | Libraty, at ¥ | will be open to tion is give bers of bigh school NUAL M ters of t tion _of . D, for wction of three ors Will be Leld at th the a 501 Tth st . December at S pon. <t Rebe us purtners <hoy Al claims agu Marrell, truding Tusiness, in the grocery | d Le presented | w. 1 OF FURNITTRE and 16; Harris- WANTED — A from New York, | OF RAY d C. Phillips. late @ member of the Broth- Trainmen, will please ndersigned, on a matter of any one knowing her unicate with the un- ned. 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Copyright, 1921, PEKING, Chij December 3. cording to a signed statement, gi at the writer's request, Hsu Shih Chang, president of the Chinese re- public, has the fullest confidence that the Washington conference will give China a square deal. The statement follow: _ “China entered the Pacific ington) conference ready and easer to bear her share of such international burdens as should be imposed on her in the interest of world amity and confident that the the justice of her side in tl such problems as should be pr affecting her inte GILE! (Wash- con: fidence has not been misplaced. China appe; before and with the other powers or pla whose i ot in the rola of u suppliant tiff, but as one of the nations nd relationship to is and far eastern problems as is universally recognized. Desire Lasting Peace. “Our people whole lasting D in the vital, regions. are looking confidenily toward | hington for its achicvement. In | placing her side of rious questions | before” the world China seeks but! justice. We are not animated by sel- | fish desires. by ambition for con-| quest or by any ulterior motivel against any other animated with the other pow sideration to ( understanding of such problems as she, reposing implicit_confidence in the conference. has seen fit to lay before it. “It is with particular gratitude that I hear from China’s delegation in shington that a high moral tone. as.was o be expected, has character- ized the opening stages of the con- ferenc ation. But we are assurance that ve full con- liznce to deal with problems in the two Americus { _That notion has found opposition Was it confidential observations by the league spokesmen to the effec that their countrie nd many other members, are concerned with conditions all around the world, so | that Great Britain, for example, conld | not be confined to any of these } prehend all the nations of the earth. | Central Idea First. 1t would be improper to quote any of the league authorities now in Washington, but the reader will not | be far wrong who surmises that these gentlemen are freely and emphati- | cally declaring, upon every appropri- | ate “occasion, that the one e factor in the league of nation: central idea—its genius, | purpose—and not any p i of words. While the league leader | are undoubtedly getting a new un derstanding of the American view- | point, which was so incompr to them in Europe, they ar same time making plain to nsib! At the 1 owith | i i | | i { troublesome world questions las the most_resourceful whom they may in propriety talk that there is no change of covénant or by- | Wil | laws that the league will not make. |iast night 1 and no guarantees that it will not| give, in order to secure the co-opera- | tion of an America which they now | e as the most eflicient solver of | in economic and moral leadership. Amer- | ica may have a “reserved” seat in the | league, or off the stage. or a private box to herself, whenever she de- | sires it. i the list of guests is ally the most significant fact in the report of la so occasion, so it is true that| | | A eat] Heat T Heat T | |Board of Home { Woolri i Rossie, as relationships of certain | eminent delegates to the Washington | conference means more t any | work they may do in the | Since the Mountain Ameri not got to the League Mahomet, the League Mahomet has come to the | Mountain America. (Copyright, 1921, METHODISTS APPROVE OF ARMS CONFERENCE | the overs Missions Elects Officers and Accepts 1922 Bud- get of $5,325,578. PHILADELPHIA, December Election of officers to approval of | the 1922 budget carrying appropria- | tions of $3,325.578 and adoption of| resolutions indorsing the conference ! on limitation of armament featured | the sessions of the board of home ! missions and church extension of the | Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Joseph ¥. Berry of Philadeiphia was | re-elected president of the board. | Other officers chosen include W. B.f Pilling, Philadelphia; M. E. Rich h, Pa.; Judge H. R. Snavel Kansas City, Kan, and Allen M New' York, vice presidents; W. U. Elliott, Philadelphia, treasurer; | Rev. M. E. Snyder, Trenton, N.-J..| | | | | | recording secretary; Rev. D. D. For- sythe, Philadelphia, corresponding secretary, and William Boyd, Phila- delphia, chairman ecxecutive commit- tee. The were gest HMems in the budget' 4,294 for church extension and 32, <4 for field maintenanc Other items included $230.000 for administration expenses, $259,000 for partmental work and $230,000 for re construction work, including schol ship aid for theological students. Confidence that the “issue of the conference will mark the beginning of an era of world peace” was pressed in the resolution indorsing the arms conference. Copies were sent to President Harding and Secre- tary of State Hughes. Mrs. W. P. Thirkield, wife of Bishop Wilbur P. Thirkield of Mexico, and president of the Women's Home Missionary So- ciety of the church, in her annual re- port showed the membership of the society to be 423,139, an increase of 112 per cent in the last eight years. —_— CONFER-AT LUNCHEON. Japanese Entertainment Leads to Navy Ratio Discussion. Kotaro Mochizuki, representative of the opposition party in the Japanese parliament, entertained yesterday at a luncheon at his apartment in Stone- leigh Court, which developed into the nature of a parliamentary conference. Included in the gathering, in addtijon to the host, were seven members of the Japanese parliament, among them representatives of the government as well as the opposition party of the house of commgns. The guests Were S. Matsucka, M. P., editor of Miyako of Tokio; Dr. K. Hayaski, M. P., professor of foreign law, Koi-o-Giyuku University, Tokio, and councilor of the department of foreign affairs; D. Tagawa, M. P., president of the Tokio board of muni- cipal works; S. Yokoto, M. P., chair- | man of the legislative bureau of the Japanese cabinet; M. Kawahara, M. P.; T. Yamamoto, M. P.. and K. Tomot- suno. M. P., the latter three all mem- bers of the government party in the house of commons. The conference dealt with and con- sidered the subject of the ratio to be fixed. lai Sevei regions once a part of China proper which have been ceded or leased to foreign governments form the subject of a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Soclety. These regions, which have actually been transferred, either by lease or cession, are not to be confused with the so-called “spheres of influence,” which are more or less indefinite and mauny of which are not recognized by footsteps, and at one time the world was informed of a new lease of Chinese territory nearly every month. Germany tried to lease Kiaochow bay, on the Shantung coast, in 1896, but China refused her offer. In Novem- ber, 1897, Germany seized the bay ostensibly because two German mis- sionaries had been killed in Shan- tung. In December the Russian Asiatic fleet steamed into Port Ar- thur, 200 miles north of Kiaochow, and announcement was made that it would winter there. In March, 1898, Germany obtained a ninety-nine-year BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Protests from Chinese in different parts of the United States against di- rect’ negotfations between China and Japan over Shantung are pouring in on the Chinese delegation, according to the student leaders, who are openly voicing their disapproval here. Auto- mobiles filled with students and car- rying signs warning the Chinese dele- gates against the course they had lease of approximately 100 square miles on the shores of the bay which she had seized; and the same month Russia obtained a twenty-five year lease to Port Arthur and a part of { the Lisotung peninsula, with the right to_extend the lease. “Only a tew weeks after the leases the Chinese. “What once threatened to be the great international ‘sport’ of annexing parts of China began with the arrival of the first Kuropeans in the far east,” says the bulletin. ‘““Those who been induced to take through the good offices of Great Britain and the United States. drove slowly through the streets yesterday. Another group of about twenty students paraded to the headquarters of the Chinese dele- gation on Massachusetts avenue and | b blazed the trail around Africa, across the stormy Indian ocean, and up the ast coast of Asia to rich Cathay were Portuguese. For half a century came and went in their trading ships, but by 1577 they felt the need of a station to facilitate their com- merce, and settled at Macao on the southeérn coast of China. A region Of about four square miles was set aside for them partly as a reward for ance in breaking up piracy in the nearby waters, and has been claimed by Portugal ever since. Formal transfer of this tiny fragment of China wax made by the Chinese zovernment in 1887, and since then| “In June Great Britain increased Dehow;and - 3 1 has been without question Portuguese | her holdings ut Hongkong by leas- | tuDE peninsula when she cntered the i el 3 5| i for ninoty-nine years 356 square | war in 1817 ine biz obstecl 1o the Ready to Discuss Angora and Lull Hefore Amnexation storm. | Miicr of ‘sdditional terrilory anune [ I, SOMET an G0 Other Questions Between “More than two and a half centuries | gregating = twenty square miles in | threatened attack on the Versailles sed ufter the founding of Maeao|ares In November, 1899, France|treaty, which awarded Kiaochow 1o Lo before China was again called upon inadded to her lease at Kwang Chow a |Japan. France and Britain. the name of commerce to give away |group of islands dominating the bay. Actaal Facts Baxis. X more of her territory. By that time|Finally, in 1900, came one of the| It wax agreed on the part of the | e Associuted Press, all the commercial nations of Europe, | most ambitious steps of all In the | two dclegations thit in discucsing the| FARIS Decembor 2 —prenier Brignd wnd the United es as well, werelacquisition of territory—the occupa- g esti ' o 1 IS ready tc e a is C ‘tigaged in the remunerative China|tion of Manchuria by Russia, TRI5 | sfrer mmeigon ctho i u:k;',\-,d:fd‘} P meet Marupis Cdrxon fof trade. Friction arose in the early part | brought on the Russo-Japanese war, |(he setual facts and not the academic SN athe, SHUB secretary)of of the nineteenth century between |after whngh both Russia and Japan | yiewpoints as (he basis of discussion, |° r foreign affairs, and discuss | British traders and the Chinese, and’removed their troops from Manchuria, | which will be for the sole purpose of [ ANEura and other questions sting | after a war in which Great Britain | was victorious China, as a part of her indemnity, in 1842 gave Great Britain the Island of Hongkong, a few miles from Macao. This island, with an area of thirty-two square miles and one of the best harbors in the world, was actually ceded and became a part of the British empire. In 1860 Great Britain leased three square miles of territory on the mainiand opposite Hongkong, and shortly afterward this, two, was ceded. hat may be called China’s period ntensive land losses’ extended from {1595 to 1900, with five nations partici- inz. AU the conclusion of the apanese-China war in 1895. Japan not only obtained Korea. over which China claimed a protectorate, but also the large Island of Formosa, with an trea of nearly 14,000 square miles, {off the central Chinese coast New Lease Every Mon “From that time on the political pot boiled furiously among the na- tions wishing to follow in Japan's{ ninety-nine-year leases. mands. Minister of Foreign Affairs v Waenington: and gt Ts mard i1l | OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE INDICATES |Mdiyzre @ beins avelied to bim The China trade bu u, Which PROGRESS OF CHINA-JAPAN PARLEY The following statement was issued y the Japanese and Chi- <¢ delegales after their meeting to discuss Shantung “Issued by the Chinese and Japanese At the first meeting of the Chinese and Japanese delegates held yester- day ut the Pan-American building, relative to the question of Shantung, and in response to the opening re- marks of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Bal- four, expressing their gratification in the ucceptance on the part of China and Japan of their good offiges and their desire to extend their friendly jintervention with a view to securing! a fair and satisfactory arrangement of this question, Baron Kato and Dr. | Sze replied as follows: ‘Japanese statement of the Shan- tung question delivered at the meet- ing of Japanese and Chinese delegates on December 1: “We are sincerely gratified by the opportunity which has been afforded us to meet with the representatives of China in an attempt to arrive at satisfactory adjustment of the Shantung question. We cannot let this occasion pass without express- ing our deep appreciation of the good offices of Secretary Hughes and Mr. Balfour, which has made the present meeting possible. Enger for Settlement. e that Japan is eagerly looking for- ward to an early settlement of this long-pending controversy. We may add that it is the desire of the Japa- nese people to eliminate all cause of misunderstanding between China and Japan in order that these two neigh- ing nations of the far east may future in_perfect harmony. live in And we have no doubt that this sen- timent fully shared by our Chinese friends. “We are not unmindful of the dif- ficulties with which the Chine.e gov- ernment is being confronted in en- tering into direct negotiations on the subject. We are, however, confident that, if approached from a broader perspective, the question should be susceptible of a speedy solution. The true and vital interests of the two nations are in no way conflicting. It is unfortunate that the real issues involved have been very largely mis- | understood in the popular mind. The term ‘Shantung question’ s _itself a misnomer. The question is not one hich affects the whole province of Shantung. The important points now awaiting adjustment relate only to the manner of restoring to China an area of territory less than one-half of 1 per cent of the Shantung pro- vince, and also to the disposition of the railway, 290 miles long, and its appurtenant mines, formerly under exclusive possession and manage- ment of the Germans. There is ab- solutely no question of full terri- torial sovereignty; that is being ex- ercised by China throughout the length and| breadth of the province. More Apparent Than Real. “Careful examination of the corre- EXHIBIT OF PORTRAITS. Work of Pierre Nuyttens to Be Shown at Belgian Embassy. More than fifty dry point por- traits of Pierre Nuyttens, the noted Belgian artist, will be placed on ex- hibition December 10 and 11 at the Belgian embassy, 1780 Massaachus- etts avenue, the embassy announced today. The tableaux, which will. be hung in the ballroom and library of the embassy, include portraits of the King and -Queen of Belgium, Presi- dent Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Mar- shal Foch, Theodore Roosevelt, Gen. Pershing, Gen. Wood and many per- sons prominent in the political and social world. There will also be sev- eral architectural and landscape etchings. M. Nuttens’ poriraits are said to re- veal the character and personality of his subjects in a more striki man- ner than has been accomplished by any other user of the dry point, and at tho same time preserving the qualities of beauty peculiar to this type of works | 1 planted two freshly painted signs in full view of windows and entrances. Mnke Their Appearance. For a time there was apprehension that the delegutes might weaken and fail to appear at the conference as a result of the first public manifesta- tion which has enlivned its sessions had been granted to Germany and Russia_ Great Britain obtained a lease on the shore and Bay of Wei-hai- wel, almost equidistant between Port Arthur and Kiaochow. This British lease was not for a definite number of years, but provided that it was to run for the period during which Rus- sia should hold Port Arthur. Later | They appeared and any secret premo- | in April France entered the competi-| nations for future trouble at Lome tion and ook a ninety-nine-vear| which they may have had did not lease on the Bay of Kwang Chow and| show on the surface. approximately 230 square miles of| When th, inese dcemates territory on the mainland. sented to waive the contention China took ove rmany’s France Enters Fleld. ) 5 Kiaochow and her rights in the Shan- which reverted to China, but with the provision that Japan should have cer- tain economic concessions, “Since 1900 no new areas in China kave passed under foreign control, but there have been important changes in the ownership of some of the seven tracts already alienated. After the Russo-Japanese war Japan succeeded to Russia’s claims on Port Arthur and the Liaotung peninsula, and obtained an extension of the lease to ninety-nine years. As a re. sult of the world war Japan came into possession of the German terri- tory and concessions in Shantung and claims them for her own. “With the removal of Russia and promoting mutuai understanding and g0od neighborhood between China and Japan, and without giving ground for the least inferen: cussion will be based on the treaty arrange- swhich have been in dispute these two countries or between other: “Characterization of Clir. opposition to the Versa and insistance for two ¥ unconditional return of an “academic Viewpoint other protest from the Favor Full Conferen insist that the Shantung 1d be taken up hefe th “We tion Germany from China, the seven tracts | nine ers in full conference,” said under alien control are now in the Huang, one of the elder hands of only four nations. Japan e ina’s principles and holds three; Great Britain, two, and | patriotism are not mer: demic France and Portugal, onc _each.|viewpoints’ and we insist that the Japanese Formosa, British Hong-|powers which signed the Versailles kong and Portuguese Macao are|treaty consider them. We are appre hensive of a repetition of the Japan- claimed as unqualified possesslons. p ese coercien as in the twenty-ome de- The four other regions are held under speaks for the South China govern- ment, 97 per cent of the Chines the United States hailing from that portion of attack on Peking and srondence recentls exchanged be- | 4t P tween Japan and China will shnw‘r“;fih"“ Lhking sove that the divergencies of opinion be- | TUbY merally. i tween the two governments are more apparent than real. We are hopeful that this meeting will be able to de- termine in common accord the essen- tial terms of settlement, leaving the natters of detail or of local nature for arrangement by the commission- ers of the two governments to be spe- 1y appointed for that purpose. duily. Chang pected both closely Tsao Kun, with n aliied the Japanese. are preparing to ol to who shall be its next pre ident. 1t would have fallen long ago had it not been for the recognition afforded it by the powers. Millfons Borrowed From Japau. WAr 2 “Statement by Mr. Sze' on behalf of| “The Peking governmeat has bor the Chinese delegation: xowedionilllone drom Japan and-made “‘Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour: |Many treatiex with that country “] desire first of all to express, on | which surrendered China’s natural re- behalf of the Chinese delegation, the|SoUrces. —More than sixty treatics sincerc thanks and appreciation for | Nave been negotiating betwecn Peking the friendly und good offices that vou |41 Tokio, the contents o hich iwo gentlemen have offered on behalf | Tt MOt pert tre 1o China of your two countries in briuging | Jiorks They seok o e about conversations with a view 1o a| hupy 1815 Jhpan fgain showed her fair settlement of the Shantung ques-i 0% Yy o xeerting thit 4 pote of tion. T need not add anything more to what I said yesterda the gen- eral meeting of the full commit special ad which the United States sent to Peking should first have bepn prics - A . {vised by Tokin. America did not The Shantung question is one of|aqmit this contention, butaJapan ef- | vital importance to China. Its im- ively gquashed an Americ - i portance to China and the difficulties 1y project and thus won additional needless for us to assure you |results, resulting in a fair and just connected therewith are too well known to all to need any remarks by me today._ It is universally admitted that the Tondition is unsatisfactory and that an early and speedy solution. fair and just and satisfactory to the desires and aspirations of the Chine people, is necessary. ' join with you all in the hope that our ¢onversations will be fruitful of cognitio { her in Shan- " owers ’ ured from Japan in China's 1 sources wer }lishments or increased | fortunes of Peking ofti | th Summary of Loanw. “Some ef the loans ure: settlement. | Bauk of T Thankful for Undersianding. | Ra “‘With reference to the observation| 3 o ratlfoud of Baron Kato that the Japanesc| \yum . oo 5 government was not unmindful of the i ey difficulties which have cenfronted the | Graud canal improvene Chinese government in regard to the | Mitsui company method of settliug this question, the|Ki Hui raiload Chinese delegation is gratified that| these difficulties have been perceived | by the Japanese delegation—difficnl-! ties which have made necessary thel resort to the present procedure which, ! under the good offices of Mr. Hughes! and Mr. Balfour in behalf of their re- | spective governments, has been ini-; tiated.’ ‘This conversation was resumed at 3:30 this afternoon, together with the American and British represen- tatives. Prince Tokugawa replaced Baron Kato in representing Japan at this session. “It was agreed on the part of th two delegations that in discussing thi Shantung question they would take the actual facts and not the academic viewpoints as the basis of discussion which will be for the sole purpose of promoting mutual understanding and good neighborhood between China and Japan, and without glving ground for the least inference that the discus- sion will be based on the treaty ar- rangements which have been in dis- pute between these two countries or others. “An interchange of views on the question of Kiaochow-Tsinan (Tsing- | tao-Tsinanfu) railway then took!| place and this discussion will be con- tinued at another meeting. “The next meeting will be held at 2:30 Monday afternoon.” 125 SEIZED IN DRY RAIDS. Month’s Total of Intoxicants Tak- en Reaches Hundreds of Gallons. Arrest of 125 alleged violators of the Volstead law and seizure of hun- dreds of gallons of intoxicants is shown-in the report of the work of the police prohibition enforcement squad for the month of November. ‘The largest guantity of alcoholic ‘beverages seized in any one precinct ‘was in No. 8, middle northwest sec- tion, wheére 138 quarts of whisky and 100 gallons of wine were among the seizures. ’ IS Total seizures in the several pre- cincts inciuded 684 quarts of whisky, 1,447 gallons of wine, 531 gallons of mash, 133 bottles of home brew, 56 bottles of gin, 50 quarts of alcohol, 6 barrels of hard cider, 72 bottles of peach extract, 26 bottles of cham- pagne, 2 bottles of cognac, 63 bottles of Jamaica ginger, 50 bottles of bit- ters and 260 bottl oftnxtr.u Three wine presses, two one automobile were seised. nt munition loaus (twe Total “Japan thus seeks to get a strangic hold on Chins by keeping the country in u state of disorganization.” pectators of the conference may not grasp all the complicated points at issue n China’s uffairs, but they are receiv- ng an object lesson at Washington of the rivalries and rganization in its domestic affairs. (Copyright, 1621.) PUBLIC DEBT GROWS. Increase During November Report- ed at About $160,000,000. An increase of about §160,000,000 in public debt during the month of November was announced yesterday by the Treasury. At the end of October the public debt stood at $23,459,140,- 496.49, as compared with $23,619,085,- 725.87 on November 30. The increase during the month, officials explained, was due to the issuance of $231,000,000 worth of Treasury certificates on November 1, while ‘there were no certificates maturing during the month. _— REGRETS MIX’S SLAYING. Bolivia Conducting Inquiry Into Death of U. S. Citizen. Regret for the killing of Hart Mix, an_American citizen, at Santa” Cruz, Bolivia, has been expressed by the Bolivian government, and the foreign minister is directing an investigation of the occurrence, the State Depart- ment was gdvised yesterday in a report trom Min¥ster Maginnis at Las Paz. Mr. Maginniss stated that the in- vestigation conducted thus far show- ed that Mix had repulsed an tnvasion by Bolivian police in civilian clothes on his home in Santa Cruz on Novem.- ber 29. in the encounter with the police, in which Mr. Mix was slain, three of the police were killed and two wounded. Another American named Metz, an' occupant of the Mix home, was arrested by Bolivian authorities after the encounter, but was released a few hours later after an official in tion. - ¢ in | pledging | 0| and a generation in the far east; th abolition of foreign post offices in China; the termination at an early date to be definitely fixed, of the unique privilege of extraterrito- rialty. which forcigners have so grievously abused, together with the subsegent withdrawal of for- cign troops; the arousal in China herself of a new sense of the na- tion’s internal corruption and weakness, 8o that an early national reorganization seems assured; and, most potent of all conference re- sults, a world-wide awakening to the importance of some sort of in- ternational co-operation for the averting of humanity’s present perils and for the meeting of emergent needs, Already enough lias been done at or through the Washington con- ference to give it rank as one of the great parliaments of men. yright, 1921.) BRANDISWILING TOMEETCURZON i ! {between ! eat Britain, | | the newspaper 1¢ following his return He had been asked his at- arding Lord Curzon's sug- meeting in Paris between ance. Great Bri- | to be followed by a | atherings of the supreme couneil. the lutter contingency M. Bria France and r told « titud, jzestion of {that if any grave problem aros such (@8 & new reparations plan, he would It opp another meeting of the | preme couneil. L. riand declined to comment on | 1ssion ning a mora- | I torium for He said the {eouncil of ministers would meet to- {morrow fo take up the current situ-| {ation. He made it clear that he did | 1 Ny objection to Great Britain | {a neg with German representa- | H ans for the delivery in kind of ! Britain's share in the repara- | tions. ax this was only following the | fexample of France. Optimistic Over Outcome. | |, The premier spoke optimisticaily of | the Washington couferen. He said | lhe left with the impression that | levery one understood the position of France and indorsed her attitude, He had been able 1o dissipate the views held by certain persons that Frane was,ailitaristic. He regarded his trip | as suecessful from this point of view | one. So far as the French navy was | {concerned. M. Brinnd said France; imerely had suggested that if other | nations needed navies of a certain size, France also had the need for a nav, in view of her scattered pos- sessions. | M. Briand expressed the belief that| | the Washington confercnce would not | {take up the reparations questions,| {declaring that its agenda already was [ filled. ! | The Fremch wministerial council is expected to discuss reparations, the | | German moratorium and the Angora |treaty at tomorrow’s session. In of-, cial” circies thesbelief is expressed, {that it is likely the mecting proposed | by Lora Curzon will be held at the @ of next week. { i'remier Briand lost mo time after) 'his return to Paris to take up_lhe, tchallenge of the opposition, Wlch had criticised his cabinet durin absenc n the United States. Going Before Parlinment. ! “I am going before parliament, | suid the premier, “to put myself ut | its disposition for public debate o the sitnation. 1 hope that those who in my absence huve criticised the overnment will take the floor andl themselves, This small war- | ween French public men must ! { The premier had x long conversa- }tion with President Millerand in | ! which he gave the president a full account of his trip to Washington. M. Briand was greeted when He arrived at the ! station by members of th 1200 notables in, oflicial life, ties. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and number of the mem- | ; bers of the American embassy siaff werc present. 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