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Relegates to Start Detailed Discussion on Chinese Problem Today
MR. HARDING, IN BACKGROUND,
nAWAITS ADVENT OF ANY CRISIS
Reposing Faith in Delegation, President
Withdraws From Active Participation,
But Remains Ready to Intervene.
President Warren G. Harding is quiet- j
1y sitting: in the* background with his |
hand on the pulse of the conference on j
the limitation of armaments, ready toj
diagnose and remedy any unfavorable
symptoms or any crisis which may de
velop. Having launched the conference
by the delfvery of one of the most no- j
table state papers in the history of the I
government, the worth of which was j
temporarily lost in the excitement oc- j
rasioned by the simultaneous presenta- I
tion of the American plan for naval
disarmament, the President has been
content-to withdraw from the picture
until such time as the conference may
require the further services of a plenary
physician who has full power of de
cision in his hands.
When he addressed the conference at
Its opening session. President Harding
gave voice to the hope of the world that
peace on earth and good will might be
reflected in the achievements of this
conference in the direction of under
standing and disarmament. The Presi
dent knew in advance that what he
.said would probably be effaced for the
moment by the sensational proposals of
the American delegation, but he con
tented himself with the erection of the
first monumental milestone which can
always be pointed back to when occa
sion arises?namely, the hope of the
world and the duty of governments to
eee to it that the purpose of this confer
ence shall not fail.
Has Faith In Delegation.
Any on? who knows the quiet de
termination of President Harding
"when he is sure he is right will not
"be confused bv his self-effacement
from the limelight of the conference
at this timo. The American delega
tion is the representative of the gov
ernment of which he is the head, and
with characteristic farsightedness the
President is reposing his faith in that
delegation, which up to this time has
conducted itself with a sense of re
sponsibility and discretion worthy of
the highest traditions of American
diplomacy. The conference itself is
in its infancy. The issues are now
being: fully stated and joined. It is
only when all the snag's have been
uncovered and when some of them
cat.not be dragged out. when the. con
ference itself has reached an impasse,
that the President may be expected
to appear in the role of a mediator,
or, if necessary, to appeal to tVie gov
ernments which sent their delegates
here.
President Harding has the habit of
reposing full faith in the men he ap
points to office and in conceding good
faith to those who are appointed by
others to confer with them. He an
nounced in his opening address that
he had "faith" that this conference
would accomplish along practical
lines what it was . called upon to
achieve. While he spoke earnestly,
yet softly, the President will never
lose sight of the mark he set up for
the conference to shoot at nor fail
to keep the conference aimed, as it is
now aimed under the guidance of the
American delegation, in the right di
rection.
Roosevelt In Same Position.
The last American President to oc
cupy the trategic position which
President Harding now holds was
Theodore Roosevelt at the time of the
Portsmouth peace conference. Al
though the United States was only
the host nation of that conference.
President Roosevelt was kept in close
touch with its deliberations. When !
the final crisis was reached. President i
Roosevelt did not hesitate to appeal, j
not only to the delegates, but to their
governments, for a happy solution,
and his efTorts were rewarded in
spirit and in letter.
It may well be that the present con
ference on the limitation of arma
ment will conclude its work happily
by the methods suggested by the
President in his opening address. If,
on the contrary, in the heat of con
sideration of the details of the pend
ing proposals, both as to armament
and far eastern questions, the confer
ence should lose sight of the main !
objectives. President Harding is wait- j
ing patiently at the White House to
administer the antidote.
(Copyright, 1921.)
Slovakia Declared Satisfied
With Her Autonomous State
BY ALEXANDER BROZ.
(Attache of the Ciechoslovak legation In
London.)
(Special Correspondence of The Stir and Chi
cago Daily News.)
LONDON. October 30.?Many people
readily believe the Magyar propagan
dists who assert that the Czechs con
sider Slovakia as an annexed province,
that the Czechs have broken the agree
ment. according to which Slovakia was
to receive autonomy; that it is not cer
tain whether the Slovaks wish to re
main within the Czechslovak state.
It is worth while, therefore, to re- i
call that neither the Czechs nor the
Slovaks demanded separate Inde
pendence; they demanded independ
ence for the Czechoslovaks. All the
Slovak local national councils, to the
number of over 100, which were form
ed after the military collapse of the
Hapsburg empire, identified them
selves with the declaration issued on
October 30 by the central Slovak
national to the effect that the Slo
vaks regarded themselves as an in
tegral part of the Czechoslovak na
tion.
In view of these facts, therefore, it
Is neither accurate nor just to say that
the Czechs consider Slovakia as an an
nexed province, or that they deny the
Slovaks their right of self-determina
tlon, for it is precisely because the
Slovaks made use of their right of
self-determination that they are in
the Czechoslovak state. Of course,
there was no plebiscite, but to every
one who knows how the Czechs and
Slovaks struggled and fought in union
during the great war in order to
achieve their independence it must be
obvious, that this was a sufficient
proof of their will as regards their
state allegiance.
Pittsburgh Agreement.
The so-called Pittsburgh agree
ment. or resolution, of which the
Magyars are attempting to make cap
ital In their agitation among the
Slovaks, was arrived at on October 8,
1S18. at a meeting of representatives
of the Slovaks in the United States.
It was signed by President Masaryk,
*ho was then in America. This reso
lution contained a scheme for the ad
justment of the relationship between
the Czechs and Slovaks. However, it
contained no reference to the manner
In which a suitable system of admin
istration was to be insured upon the
territory of liberated Slovakia, the
aim of the American Slovaks being
to assure the future autonomous
status of Slovakia within the Czecho
slovak state.
Slovakia, however, actually possess
es an autonomy, since it has a min
ister plenipotentiary and decides
about its own affairs. In accordance
with the principles of the constitu
tion, the whole republic is divided
Into twenty autonomous areas, six of
which compose Slovakia. These areas
will be administered by the Slovaks
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themselves by means of autonomous \
bodies containing about forty mem- j
bers who will be elected by the votes
of all citizens, irrespective of sex. on i
a svstem of proportional representa
tion. These areas thus have all the
attributes of democratic local autono
my. From the representative bodies
of all the areas will be elected an |
administrative council, for all Slo
vakia. also by proportional represen
tation. This council will be composed
of twenty-four members, eight of
whom, under the presidency of the
director of Slovak administration,
will attend to the executive authority
for Slovakia. Hence, the adminis
trative autonomy of Slovakia is as- ,
sured on the one hand by the terms
of the constitution and on the other
by actual practice.
Few Seek Foil lie? I Autonomy.
Absolutely political and legislative
autonomy is not desired by the great
majority of the Slovak people. Such
autonomy would necessitate financial
autonomy as i#ell, but Slovakia,
plundered as it was by the former
Magyar regime, is not financially self
supporting. A further reason why the
majority of the Slovaks do not de
sire political autonomy is that they
do not regard themselves as form
ing a subordinate minority in the
state, but wish to take an active part
in the affairs of the state on an
equal footing with the Czechs.
There is, however, a party in Slo
vakia?the so-called peoples party?
which, under the leadership of Father
Hlinka, is endeavoring to obtain
political autonomy. But this party
is in the minority. At the parlia
mentary elections in April, 1919, it
obtained only 231,000 votes out of
a total of 1.000.060 Slovak votes. Tet
even this party takes its stand un
waveringly upon the basis of the
Czechoslovak republic. Neither in the
national assembly nor in the senate
does it ever take action as an in
dependent body or as an independent
political club. Its twelve representa
tives are members of the "Political
Club of the Czechoslovak People s
Party." the chairman of which Is
Mgr. Sramek. a Czech, the vice chair
man being Father Hlinka.
Since being liberated from the Mag
yars Slovakia has made great prog
ress. especially as regards education.
During the Magyar regime all schools
were in the hands of the Magyars.
With the exception of a few schools
where the work was carried on by a
handful of teachers who were evan
gelical for the greater part, the in
struction was Magyar, both in letter
and spirit. After the liberation of
Slovakia it was necessary to provide
schools of a Slovak character, at least
in those districts inhabited by Slo
vaks in compact masses. As the
number of Slovak teachers was in
sufficient. the work was carried on
with the help of Czech educators. To
day there are more than 4,000 ele
mentary schools, secondary schools,
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"5-5-3" RATIO INDORSED
BY ENGLAND, ACCORDING
TO CURRENT REPORTS
Bj tlie Associated rress.
As an aftermath of the Saturday
conference between Secretary
Hughes, Mr. Balfour aiifd Admiral
Kato, it was learned on highest
authority that Great Britain has
indorsed without reservation the
"5-6-3" ratio proposed In the
American naval limitation plan,
qualifying her acceptance as one
"in principle" only because of he#
desire to propose modiiication of
the submarine and replacement
feature.
This conference also was said in
authoritative Japanese circles to
have "cleared the air" of many
misunderstood points and to have
u*Med to the confidence that an
i :itual accord would be reached.
Conference Committee Will
| Discuss Many Scattered
, Spheres of Influence.
BV Jl'NIL'S B. WOOD.
"What Is China?" will be the first
question discussed by the conference
committee on far eastern problems now
that Chttia and Japan have publicly
presented their generalities on that
portion of Asia. The committee must
decide whether it Is going to consider
China as it was sixty years ago and
China as it still is looked upon in the
popular mind or China as It is today,
making a careful discrimination as to
what portions of it have been parti
tioned among other powers, what por
tions are foreign concessions and what
portions are more or less permanent
spheres of influence. The men who
speak for China consider ail of the
China of sixty years ago as China to
day and go so far as to hope for a de
cision when the foreign encroachments
will terminate.
Great Britain Holdings.
Shantung Is the latest of these 1
acquisitions and the one most fre-1
quently mentioned. China, however, i
refers as well to others more sancti
fied by time, and compared to the age
of China, they are quite recent.
Great Britain holds Hongkong and
Wei-Hal-Wei. Though Britain prop- i
ably would be willing to relinquish
Wei-Hei-Wei, she feels differently as
to the island of Hongkong, whf're j
she would prefer to extend hor juris
diction beyond Kowloon on the op
posite mainland. She also has plans
as to Tibet as a sphere jof influence
at least.
France occupies Indo-China with a
well defined sphere of influence in
Yunnan province of China proper.
Portugal occupied Macao, which is
I little more than a cathedral and
many dilapidated gambling houses,
but is one of the few mites-remalrf
itig to that once great colonist nation.
Japaa'a Sphere of Influence.
Japan holds a lease on the L#iao
tung (Kwangtung) peninsula, with
the cities of Port Arthur and Dairen.
which she does not Intend to cancel
even If it is necessary to fight, while
her sphere of influence in Manchu
ria and outer Mongolia is equally
well defined.
In addition to these definite areas,
all powers maintaining treaty rela
tions with China, including the United
States, have business and residence
concessions exempt from Chinese
jurisdiction in the largest treaty port
cities and enjoy extra territorial
rights through the republic.
In south China, the Canton govern
ment firmly holding tjie rich prov
ince of Kwangtung ana claiming con
trol over more than half the old em
pire, requires a further definition of
"What is China?" This is the pro
gressive part of China, closely re
lated to the United States by emi
gration and teaching, men with short
hair and women with unbound feet,
and requires consideration if the con
ference Is to assist Clna toward a
permanent settlement of her Internal
troubles.
together with commercial and tech
nical institutes, and the nucleus of a
university at Bratislava. Moreover,
eighty German schools have been
established, where under the Magyar
regime there were none.
There can be no doubt that certain
mistakes have been made, especialy as
regards the administration of Slo
vakia. Such mistakes, however, were
bound to occur in view of the fact
that the country had to be built up
from nothing. Moreover, the whole
of the system of administration, of
justice, of food sullies, was differ
ent in Slovakia from that In the Czech
regions. Owing lo the lack of com
petent officials among the Slovaks, it
was necessary to supply Slovakia
with Czechs, who were thoroughly
efficient In their home duties, but were i
bewildered when faced by adminis
trative conditions entirely strange to |
them. Hence arose some dissatisfac
tion among the Slovaks. However,
the agitation against the Czechs In
Slovakia is due mainly to unjust gen- )
eralizations drawn from Isolated In
stances.
Slovakia, though much neglected by
the Magyars, la a country with a
prominent future. North Slovakia has
state-owned forests the value of
which is enormous. The country also
contains a large number of spas and
some of the most beautiful scenery
In the world. When sufficient railway
communication has been established
Slovakia may become a second Swit
zerland. She has abundant supplies
! of ores and her connection with the
'industrial district of^Ostrava-Karvln
and the electrification by waterpower
snould transform the country Into
a rich Industrial district.
"DISARMAMENT," SUBJECT
OF POEM BY WHITTIER
John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the
following lines many years ago. The
passage Is, perhaps, more suggestive
and potential at the present moment
than at any time since. Its concep
tion and. at the suggestion of W.
Burton Benham, 1354 Parkwood place
northwest, they are herewith re
printed:
DISARMAMENT.
"Put up the sword!" The voice of Chrl?t once
more , |
Speaks in the pauses of the cannon s roar
O er fields of corn by fiery sickles reaped j
And left dry ashes, over trenches heaped
With nameless dead, o'er cities starving slow
Under a rain of fire, through ward* of woe,
Down which a groaning diapason nins
From tortured brothers, husbands, lovers, sons,
Of desolate women in their far-off homes.
Waiting to hear the st*p that never comes!
O men and brothers! lot that voice be heard.
War falls, try peace; put up the useless
sword! . ? .
"Hate bath no harm for love," "and peace
unweaponed
Conquers every wrong!"
URGED TO REGisTER.
Unemployed- Veterans Asked to Re
port to H. D. Boyer, Chairman.
Unemployed veterans of the world
war are requested to register with
Harrison D. Boyer, chairman of the
unemployment committee of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, at 1207 F
street northeast, in a statement is
sued today.
The statement added: "All firms,
corporations or individuals in need of
help of any kind are aaked to get in
touch with the chairman of the com
mittee, who will send men qualified to
fill the vacant position. The veterans
are not seeking charity, but a?k for |
u cuaucc U> earn their living."
Desire Seen to Only Super
ficially Consider Delicate
Issues Involved.
by'ieroy t. veii\ox.
Japan's general reply to the prin
ciples advanced by China for the
guidance of the conference on the
limitation of armament in dealing
with questions pertinent to China,
while couched in terms which per
mit that issue to be joined on a
basis of friendly consideration and
discussion, upon examination and
analysis is found, seemingly, to lim
it both consideration and discussion
"to policies and principles which are
to guide future actions" of all na
tions in China. If it shall appear, in
subsequent developments in the con
ference, that this is, in fact, the Jap
anese position, it means that Japan
is in favor of maintaining the status
quo in China and is opposed to any
retroactive action by this conference
looking either to ail examination of
treaties, agreements, concessions or
other advantages obtained in or from
China in the past.
Problem for China.
While this conclusion of the Japa
nese statement is a formidable sug
gestion in itself, the opening indict
ment of China by Japan that "exist
ing difficulties in China lie no less in
her domestic situation than in her ex
ternal relations," is likewise a tough
nut for the Chinese to crack. Between
these two suggestions lies Japan's op
position to foreign intervention In
China, her statement of desire to per
mit China to work oyt her own des
tiny and her reiteration of adherence
to the policy of the "open door," her
denial of desire for "any special rights
or privileges" in China and her oppo
sition to a withdrawal of extrater
ritorial rights in China at this time.
Taking the Japanese statement as a
whole, it appears that Japan has no
desire to extend her position in China
beyond what she now has. that sjie
desires peace and quiet in the far east
on the status quo, and that ?he will
be satisfied hereafter to take no spe
cial rights and privilege? in China.
General Principles.
The Chinese question has not yet been
presented to the conference in Washing
ton as the naval armament question has
been presented by the United States.
China's broad brief of general prin
ciples has been enunciated and Japan's
broad brief has now been received.
Many of China's principles are ad
mittedly contingent on a restoration of
a strong central government iji China,
and, to that extent, are forward look
ing. Japan's proposal is also with an
eye upon the future. Neither presents
a program in detail. The docket of
topics to which the principles announc
ed by both are to be applied is con
tained in the agenda of the conference
itself, and the next meeting of the com
mittee on far eastern questions will de
termine how and to what extent the
conference will go into each subject.
(Copyright, 1921.)
MEMORIAL TO MR. HUGHES
HAS MILE OF SIGNATURES
180,531 Names Affixed to Docu
ment Expressing Gratitude of
Women for Parley.
Expressions of gratitude of nearly
200,000 women of the United States
and presidents of national women's
organizations, representing: a com
bined membership of 2.526.684, to
President Harding for calling the
conference on limitation of armament,
and the prayer that its fundamental
purpose may be achieved, were con
tained in a memorial presented at noon
today to Secretary of State Hughes by
Miss Anna A. Gordon, national presi
dent of the Woman's Christian Tem
perance ITnion. The memorial is 6,011
feet 4 inches, more than a mile, in
length.
"The magnificent program given to
the conference by you on November
12," the petition said, "has met with
the loud acclaim of the entire world.
We pray this keynote may be ap
proved by the conference in harmony
with the prayers of those whose pe
titions we bring you today, and of
hundreds of millions of other women
the world over for peace on earth and
good will to men."
? Accompanying Miss Gordon when.
I she presented the petition were Mrs.
I Ellis A. Yost. Washington representa
illve: Mrs. Emma S. Shelton and Miss
Claire Lusby of the District of Colum
bia. W. C. T. U.
Included among the signatures on
[ the petition of the national presidents
of women's organizations was the
name of Mrs. Truman Newberry of
Washington, national president of the
Needlework Guild of America, with a
membership of 500,000.
The total number of signers of the
petition by states was 199,531, includ
ing 559 from the District of Columbia.
GOVERNMENT RETAINS
FEE TITLE TO OIL LAND
Secretary Fall's (Decision Denies
Application of Honolulu Con
solidated Company.
Secretary Fall Saturday promul
gated an opinion denying applica
tion for mining patent of the Hono
lulu Consolidated Oil Company for
2,000 acres of oil land In Naval Pe
troleum Reserve No. 2. in California,
thus permanently retaining In the
government fee title to the lands and
their oil and gas deposits. The lands,
however, will be leased on a royalty
basis, the Honolulu company doing
the drilling and producing as the gov
ernment's lessee.
The lease on a royalty basis. It was
announced, will be In accordance with
recommendations of experts, who urg
ed early development to save the oil
from later damage and to meet in
"immediate need of an additional fuel
oil supply" for the American Navy.
In leasing the land? on a royalty
basis the Navy will* take its share
in kind of all oil produced.
The secretary's decision tnded a
long controversy waged in the courts
and before the Interior Department,
patent rights having been claimed
not only by the Honolulu Company,
but by the Buena Vista Land and
Development Company.
FRIENDSHIP IS VITAL
Lord Biddell Says future of World
Bests on TT. S.-British Relations.
America and Great Britain most take
the lead in ending wars, Lord Ridden,
representing the press of England at
the arms conference, told a large audi
ence in Wallace Memorial United Pres
byterian Church last night.
"The future welfare of the world,"
he said, "depends not so much on the
scrapping of navies, nor the limitation
of land armaments as it does on the
good feeling between England and
America."
Lord Ridden, who is a close friend
of Lloyd George and has been a fre
quent visitor to the home of the great
English statesman, drew a picture of
the premier's family life.
The publisher represents the News
paper Proprietors' Association of Great
Britain and it is througnr&lm that Eng
lish opinions on contggssce matters are
distributed to the pressor this country.
Rev. J. Alvin Campbell, pas'or of the
ciiuicu, jtrouid.-d.ii. Uc wirric?
FLAGS AT "DISTRESS"
IN HONOR OF FOREIGN
ARMS DELEGATES
Several establishments located
on Important thoroughfares of
Washington are unconsciously fly
ing flags of "distress" in the case
of th? display of foreign flags in
honor of the delegates to the
armament limitations conference.
The Dutch and Chinese flag* in
many Instances, are being flown
upside down.
According to the legations of
' these countries, the Dutch flag
should be flown with the red at
the top, and the Chinese with the
crimson as the flrst color. Japan
has two flags, one of a white fleld
and red sun in the center, which
Is the merchantman, and the other
with red tun in the middle of the
flag, with red rays projecting to
all corners of the white fleld. This
Is the "man-o'-war" flag. Of the
two. according to authority, the
merchantman is the one most
widely used.
MNGffiFAST
STREETS RENEWED
One Dead After Clash of
Rivals Early Today?Many
Injured Sunday.
By the Associated Pre**.
BELFAST, .November 21.?One man
was killed and another was wounded
in a renewal today of the rioting
which broke out in the Seaford dis
trict in East Belfast yesterday when
rival factions clashed. l*our persons
were sent to hospitals a/id numerous
others were slightly injured in yes
terday's disturbance.
Today's recurrence of the trouble
was met promptly by the authorities
and the situation was speedily brought
under control.
''BLOODY SUNDAY" RECALLED.
Anniversary Masses Held in Many
Churches in Dublin.
By the Associated Piths.
DUBLIN. November 21.?The anni
versary of "bloody Sunday" was cele
brated in many of the churches by
masses for the repose of the souls of
the victims. There was a procession
which paraded the square of the city
and then went to Glasnevin cemetery
to decorate the graves of those who
fell during the disorders.
It was one year ago when a number
of military men and auxiliary police
officers were killed during the morn
ing hours ai d there were reprisals
during the afternoon at a foot ball
game in Croke l*ark, where there
were numerous casualties. It was^
also on this day a year ago that three]
Irish prisoners were shot and killed j
while ehdeavoring to make their
escape from Dublin Castle.
CORTEGE THREE MILES LONG.
Ten Thousand Persons at Funeral
of Alderman Barry in Cork.
CORK, November 21.?Ten thousand
persons attended the funeral of Al
derman Barry yesterday, who was
shot and killed white leaving the Bal
lykinlat* camp recently., The cortege
was three miles long and included
thousands of volunteers and eight
bands. Volleys were flred oVef the
grave. i
Bishop Cohalan and eighty of his cler
I gy attended the funeral, as well as a
I representative of Eamon de Valera; :
with the lord mayors of Dublin and ,
Limerick and many members of the j
[ dail eireann. ? i
BARON SHIDEHARA BETTER
Though Improved, Ambassador Is
Still Confined to Bed.
Baron Kijuro Shidehara, ambassador
from Japan and one of the empire's
plenipotentiaries to the conference.
was still confined to his bed by illness
at his residence, 1321 K street north
west, and unable to attend today's
open session. Masanao Hanihara, vice
minister of foreign affairs in Tokio.
is temporarily occupying Baron Shide
har.a's place in the conference. Ac
cording to Capt. Maskharu Kojima.
the naval surgeon whd is attached to
the delegation. Baron Shidelxara's
fever, which reached a temperature
above 102 Saturday, was slightly
moderated today. His ailment has
been diagnosed as acute gastritis and
enteritis.
Though there was some relief from
the abdominal pain on the left side
today, the attending surgeon said that
probacy several days' rest will be
necessary before the baron can re
sume hfc official duties.
MAY BUY OLD SHIPS NOW.
Henry Ford Weed Not Wait on
Scrapping1 Program to Get Steel.
If Henry Ford of Detroit wuts to
buy warships for the steel they con
tain he need not wait for the scrap
ping of the battleships proposed by
Secretary Hughes In tthe Interests of
peace, as a choice lot of old naval ves
sels are to be offered for. sale to the
highest bidder at the Washington navy
j yard December 15 next.
The list includes the cruiser Brook
lyn. Admiral Schley's flagship at the
battle of Santiago bay; the cruiser Co
I Iumbia, once the pride of the Navy; the
1 cruiser Memphis, the monitors Puritan,
j Miantonomoh. Ozark and Tonopah and
several naval yachts, transports and
I freight ships. These vessels have been
oondemneci as obsolete for naval pur
[ poses. They are in various parts of
the country, but the bids for their pur
chase for industrial purposes will be
opened at the local navy yard on the
1 date named.
FRENCH SHIPYARDS SOLD.
__
Buildings Costing Over $2,000,000
Purchased at Auction for $35,100.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. November 21.
?The buildings of the Foundation
shipyards here, erected and equipped
by the French government, Jn 19X7, at
a cost of more than two million dol
lars, were sold at auction today for
$35,100. The Oliver H. Vanhorn Ma
chinery Company of New Orleaas
was the purchaser.
The yards were to produce a new
type of so-called unsinkable ship.
Five of these crafts were launched
and are in operation now as tankers.
Subsequent to the armistice, France
found the venture unprofitable and
ordered the plant disposed of. For
several days auctions of equipment
have been in progress, although the
total obtained from all the sales Is
placed at less than $60,000.
Besides the Vanhotn Company, the
only other bidder today was L. Gold
man of Chattanoegra.
GERMAN ENVOY AT PANAMA.
PANAMA. November SO^-Wllhalm
Erythropol. former German minister to
Salvador, has arrived to assume his
new post of minister to Panama and
the Federation of Central American Re
publics. He will present his creden
tials shortly.
Seaweed has lately been found.tol
rn ^'.ije geliitiu of a vgry high qual-I
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GERMANY'S DESIRE FOR BASE |
LED TO SHANTUNG PROBLEM
Seizing Missionaries' Slaying as Pretext,
Lease at Kiaockow Forced, to Be Fol
lowed by Spread Through Province.
"What Is the 'Shantung question.'
aftQr all, and what part do Klaochow
and Tsingtao play In It?"
This question Is answered In a bul
letin issued from the Washington, .
D. C? headquarters of the National 1
Geographic hoclety, as follows:
'The 'Shantung question' had Its
genesis when Germany, eager to com
pete with other Kuropean nations,
which were becoming more and more
important in the far east, determined
to have a port and naval base of her
own on the shores of northeast China.
It took definite shape when. In 1R97,
two German missionaries wye killed
In teeming Shantung, most densely
poplated and economically and sen
timentally one of the moBt important
of China's provinces. By way of in- j
demnlfying herself for the loss of her
nationals Germany forced China to
grant her a ninity-nlne-year lease
on an area roughly ten or twelve
miles In diameter on the coast of
Shantung at the entrance to Kiao
chow bay. and to seutralize a zone
thirty-three miles wide, skirting the
entire bay and including the leased
region. On the leased plot the Ger
mans built a typical German town,
Tsingtao.
Germany Expands Holdings.
"The leased and neutral zones to
gether comprise a relatively small
part of the 56,000 square miles of
Shantung. So fur as area Is concerned.
It Is, very roughly, as though Virginia.
Maryland and Delaware were substi
tuted for Shantung, the District of
Columbia for Tsingtao, and, for the
neutral Klaochow territory, a fan
shaped area of Maryland counties with
a radius equaling the distance between
Washington and Baltimore.
"When this most stubhorn of far
eastern questions first emerged, with
Germany and China as the chief par
ties concerned,Jt seemed to l>e only a
'Klaochow quiBTon.' But the Kiao
chow 'inph' rapBkr developed into the
indefinite, but fl&ming Shantung 'ell'
when Ofrmanfs economic designs
were understood, and the later amend
ment of the plans made the problem
still broader. For the agreement In
cluded concesslo?s tp build railways
outside the leased and neutral areas.
In Shantung proper, ajid, coupled with
the railroad concision, was the right
to exploit mines In zones twenty miles
wide traversed by the railroads.
"The 255-mile railway line from
Tsingtao to Tsinan, the capital of
Shantung-, was opened in 1904. When
in 1914 Japan announced that she
would support Great Britain's in
terests by taking the town of Tsing
tao the Chinese wished to send
troops to make the attack a concerted i
affair, but were dissuaded. When j
Japan had stormed the town and i
taken it from the Germans the 1
Chinese considered the matter mere- |
ly a 'Tsingtao question,' but it rapid- j
ly grew into a 'Shantung question' !
again when secret treaties were dis- j
closed whereby Japan had obtained
more than a year before the peace
conference the engagements of Great
Britain, France, H^issia and Italy to
support Japanese claims to all priv
ileges which Germany had acquired
in Shantung. Akhkpugh the Chinese
delegates protested that when their
country entered the war against Ger
many and abrogated all treaties with
the latter the territories and conces
sions automatically reverted to
China, the Paris council fallowed the
secret treaties and provided in the
treaty of Versailles for th'1 transfer of
?all rights formerly belonging to Ger
many' in Shantung, to Japan. The
Chinese refused to sign the treaty;
and there the matter may be said to i
rest, though it has since been the sub- I
ject of almost ceaseless diplomatic j
discussion.
Is China's Holy Land.
"Most of the coast of Shantung is j
rough, but within this minor barrier '
much of the province is plains ooun- j
try with unending fielcs of beans and j
kaoliang, a kind of grain sorghum. !
The level sections of the province are '
traversed by the great Yellow river,
which periodically inundates the
country; and the Grand canal, a
waterway second in importance as a
commerce carrier only to the Yang
tsze-kiang.
"Near the central part of Shantung
rises Tai-Shan, the highest and most
famous of the five sacred mountains
of China, A short distance to the
south of the mountain is a little town
which probably ranks* a** the most
venerated spot in all China, the birth
place and burial place of Confucius,
one of the world's greatest religious
teachers. To .both Tai-Sha*i and the
grave of Confucius at Chow-fu thou- ?
sands of pilgrims journey annually.
The presence of these sacred spots
raises Shantung sentimentally above
the other provinces. They transmute
it into the Chinese Holy Land."
Speed of 700 Miles an Hour,
Future Airplane Possibilities
\
Travel Faster Than Earth Revolves?Expert Declares \
Development in Next Ten Years Will Make Hughes'
Plan Worthless?Destructive Power TerrifRc.
! BV HIRAM K. MODEKWKLL.
(Copyright, l?21>
' By Cuble to The Star an*! Chit-ago Daily News.
Copyright. 1921.
PARIS, France. November 21.?"In
ten years or less the Hughes program
will bo without importance as a
measure of disarmament for the rea
son that the progress of aviation
will have rendered the capital ship
useless," w^s the statement made to
1 me by Pierre Etienne Flandin,
| former French undersecretary of
I aviation and president of the Inter
national Congress of Aviation now
| meeting in Paris. "The dominant
I power of the future," he continued, i
I "will be the power that rules the air.
The heavily armored battleship will |
I not be able to resist the high-power j
I ed battle piane? of unimaginable J
! swiftness which research has already
I proved it possible to build."
Of 12,000 Horsrpon^r.
i L/Ouis Brequet. vice-president of the
Association of Airplane Builders, ex- '
plained to me the nature of these pro
posed wan craft. They will weigh
about 100 tons, will have about 12.000
horsepower and a speed of about 200
miles an hour. They will cost about
4,000,000 francs (normally about
$800,000) as compared to 400,000.000
francs ($80,000,000) for amodern bat
tle cruiser. They will have a wing
spread of UAO feet and will render j
the submarine practically harmless. \
The Farman air camion now on ex- i
hibitlon here is said to be the larg- I
i est plane yet built. It weighs ten ,
tons, has 1,500 horsepower and a
spread of 110 feet. At a meeting: of!
the congress attended by President '
Millerand last week M. Brequet as- !
serted that in the near future air
planes carrying: thirty or forty pas
sengers would fly from Paris to Al
giers in seven hours, or at the rate
of 120 miles an hour and at not morv j
than one-quarter of the present f
charge for each passenger. In fifteen '
years he asserted the trip from Xew I
York to Paris could be made in J
twenty hours at the rate of 180 miles j
an hour in planes furnished with lux- j
urious sleeping quarters.
Around World Without Stop,
Eventually, he said, planes will be j
able to make a trip around the earth ;
without ? stop. Other planes, he said, j
should be able to fly 700 miles an
hour at a very high altitude, or at |
the same speed that sound travels. |
Such planes could beat the revolving: ?
speed of the earth and passengers
could see the sun rise in the west
and set in the east.
There are no American exhibits
here, but two American delegaies to
the congress who live in Paris say j
that despite the wonderful progress i
shown by the French they have not j
exceeded the progress made in the j
"United States.
MR. MELLON AND BROTHER GIVE
UNIVERSITY $1,500,000 IN LAND
I
Br the Associated Fres*.
PITTSBURGH, No\ ember 21.?A.
W. Mellon, Secretary of the Tress- ?
ury, and'his broth#r. R. R. Mellon, ^
have given to Mm Cniversity of j
Pittsburgh a plot o? land acquired
at a cost of $1,500,000, it was an
nounced by Chancellor John G.
Bowman. The proiierty. some four
teen acres, lies between the uni
versity and Carnegie Institute, in
the educational center of the city,
and on it will be erected labora
tories dedicated to chemistry,
physics, mathematics and biology.
The gift supplements a former
gift of the Mellons which some
years ago resulted in the opening
of the Mellon Institute of Researcn
as a part of the university.
It is the intention of the uni
versity. Dr. Bowman said, to make
the institution the "world center
in scientific teaching and re
search." The laboratories will be
housed in a community of build
ings of the finest materials obtain
able, with a design of architecture
that will make them among the
most notable in the world. They
are to be equipped with the most
modern laboratories and are dy
signed. Dr. Bowman added, "to
translate industrial success into
terms of human happiness, sta
bility and spiritual strength."
The property acquired for the
university was long owned by the
late Henry Clay Frick, and it was
stated that executors of Mr. Prick's
estate dropped $1,000,000 from the
prloe when it became known that
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