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Washington. Nov. 20 (Sutiday.) That
Japan Is tho final question bark of this
oonferano la even clearer on a quiet
Bandar than It Is In the confusion of
crowded working; days. Tils day la a
pauae, with the churchgolng! and trips to
ls nearbr country, but the hush Is
heavy with surmls about the Intention
f the Inacrutlble Nipponese. "
No matter If tomorrow does belong
t Franca ; that Is merely a staged dem
nitration. The brilliant premier will
' make an adroit and touching speech.
lis will, tell us again that as nobody
.1.1 will guarantee safety to France.
France herself blunt sek security In her
arm and her strangle hold on Ger
many. '
No matter If the rumor prove true that
, Belgium will have something to aay
about her army. To be sure, such a
mora would be outside the main pur
pose of the conferentje, but no more
outside thsn the leading act of Monsieur
BrUnd.
rremter Brlsnd today personally com
municated to Secretary of State Hughes,
Arthur Balfour and Senator Schanser
the substance of his addreaa.
BBIA5D YISIT8 Hl'OHEt
Senator 8-hanser called at M. Brl
and's headquarters In the morning, and
this afternoon the French prime min
ister vlalted Mr Balfour and Secretary
Hughes.
In addition to outlining what he plans
to say In statins; France's case tomor
' row. Premier Brland Inquired as to the
opinions of the American.; British and
Italian delexaten-ln-chlef as to what the
procedure should be after he speaks. It
was understood tonight that as a result
of the conferences, this general program
waa agreed upon :
After Premier Brland's explanation of
Francs' contention that she cannot
Jeopardize her national security by re
ducing her land forces below the present
strength of ftjO.aoo unless there should
bo given her a practical guarantee of
safety. It will be determined not to. un
dertake any limitation of land arma
. menta at the present conference.
Probably Mr. Balfour. U In under
, stood tonlicht, will state that France has
substantiated her claims to a special
'case and, therefore the time Is not pro
pitious for Other nations to insist upon
reductions In hrr navy. The guarantee
ANOTHER BOMB FEARED
None of these things could take first
place away from Japan tomorrow. The
only foreseeable event that could atand
up in Interest against the Japanese
puzsJe would ' be aaother bomb from
Mr. Hughes. ' Such a bomb la faintly
rumored bow and then, as due tomor
row, but the rumors apparently are due
to abellahock; the ahellabock that has
existed for Just eight days. Since the
big bomb of November 12, nobody's
nerves are quite normal. And the sever
ity with which the American attitude
has been explained since that the ratio
of capital shlpe remains as laid down or
we enter the armament race has not
taken away the nervous anticipation of
more shelL
Tomorrow at 4 o'clock In the after
noon Is when serious dealings with Japan
begin again. That Is when the Far
Eastern committee meets to see what Is
to follow up the generous - and vague
sentiments yesterday. Not long can the
question be avoided of what lay behind
these altruistic phrases, which, as Mr.
Balfour amiably pointed out, nobody has
contested for a long, long time.
On the armament question, Japan has
raised the only serious obstacle, but no
body expects her In the end to hold out
against a program on which the United
States and Great Britain unite.
Where she does have the power to
throw In a monkey wrench that can stop
the works Is In the enterprise of agree
lng to some kind of action that will
keep China hereafter from being the
mere prey and . toy of countries which
she looks upon as less civilised than
herself. ,
I am supposed to Interject an edi
torial opinion into these news stories
only seml-occaslonally, but I pause here
to observe that In this opinion of China,
that at bottom she is fully as civilized
as those who .have despoiled her, I heart
ily concur.
05 E MAJT TO DECIDE
The final decision of Japan rests with
one man. That man is not Admiral
Baron Kato. He is not Marquis Shide
hara. He is not any member of the
Japanese delegation. He is not any
leader in the Japanese parliament. Nor
Is he the mikado.
He is an old gentleman of 85,
known as Prince Tamagada. When the
delegation here knows what this old
gentfeman thinks. It will know what it
has to do.
That is the difference between the
Chinese delegation and the Japanese.
The Chinese delegation Is more authori
tative than the government at Pekin
The Japanese delegation must be guided
by the cable.
Prince Yamagada is in practice the re
gent of Japan. The mikado has become
little more than a shell of -authority.
Parliament has gained power in many
departments, but none whatever where
army, navy and foreign policy are con
cerned. The prince is the only remaining older
statesman except Marquis Matusakata,
who is senile and no longer counts The
85-year-old dictator is In lusty health.
but when be dies a system will die with
him. -j
There is no one to take bis place :no
one to carry on the tradition of abso
lute obedience to UwgtaU as distin
guishable from and above the people..
rRKSS RE3I058TBATES
Tamagada rules, but new elements stir
ander his feet. Ask somebody-1 who really
knows the East what Is the most dra
matic incident since the bang of years
ago and he will make an answer you
would never guess. He will cot select
the Chinese 10 points or Mr. Balfour's
speech , or Baron Kato's little runin
with the American program. '
He will select an episode that in our
newspapers served only for a few lines
of passing comedy. Of the Americans
most saturated with knowledge of Ja
pan not one' believed in advance that it
could possibly occur inai a group oi
some 20 newspaper men could call on
Admiral Baron Kato to remonstrate
against the behavior of' Japan and not
lose their official neaas on tne instant.
But they did call and they did remon
strate.
In Japan they qould not have called
on him at all. There they are so far
removed from the great ones that It
would not enter into the head of one
cf them to send in his decorative visit'
Irg card to one so august as the admiral
tsron.
Even now the wise ones are wondering
what will be the outcome of the unpre
cedented act. Today I heard an excep
tionally well informed specialist In Jap
anese matters say he believed at least
half of them would lose their jobs.
Others wonder If things are moving
faater than we think in old Japan.
ECONOMICS COME 3SEXT
If Japan stands as a clear first in
uiiderlylng interest the second place
nhould go to the rumor that plans for an
economic conference are already being
laid.
The rumor may be somewhat ahead of
the actual formal facts, but there is no
dcubt that economic and financial mat
ttrs are showing their troublesome heads
with every passing hour, and that the
Interest in having such a conference is
strong.
My own Judgment is that it will not
be called until the smoke from this con
ference has died down. Two things will
probably prevent either such a confer
ence soon after this one or the alter
native of interjecting economic and fin
ancial matters Into the present parley.
One is the fear of complicating matters
so that the two main purposes will not
bo accomplished. The other is the fear
of alarming that element in American
opinion that does not like the sugges
tion of looking Into the whole question
cf what part war debts are playing in
the psbsent industrial turmoiL
tal ship than th Hujhaa program sO-i
tows tnenv
The United States cannot afford to
permit Japan's, offensive fighting
strength to increase y this amount
The time for the exercise of statesman
ship at the conference has now arrived.
There are numerous difficulties In the
way of winning Japan to the American
position, yet, if ibis Is oot done, either
the conference win be a failure or
America will have to make greater sac
rifices than any other power.
The Japanese reactionaries are un
familiar with sentiment and interna'
tional morality. They feel no world re
sponsibility ; only a responsibility for
securing a proprietary interest in China
for Japan.
This gives the Japanese negotiators an
advantage. Both the United States and
Great Britain have to recognise the
force of a moral public sentiment In
formulating their policies. There is
danger, therefore, that the Japanese re
actionaries may count upon western
"public opinion to compel an acceptance
of Japanese demands rather than see
the conference fail.
A struggle of momentous character
has been proceeding between the Japa
nese military party and the Japanese
Liberals since the Invitations to the
wasnington gathering were issued. The
militarists want to use the conference
as a means for demonstrating to China
that the western powers axe afralit of
Japan and that China has no alterna
tive beyond accepting Japanese dicta
tion at Pekin. The Liberals desire to
convince the world of Japan's good faith
and wish to make China Japan's friend.
This conflict will determine whether
the Japanese government shall continue
as a military oligarchy under the con
trol of mediaeval clan rulers, or
whether a democracy shall be estab
lished with a ministry responsible to the
people.
The first week's proceedings at the
Washington conference baa gives un
fortunate proof that the. sinister power
behind the Japanese government is not
yet being overcome. This is the real
reason why the present deadlock baa oc
curred. The bene is now between the
conference and Japanese militarism.
Ths conference can go a long way to
ward giving the militarists in Tokio a
fatal blow. But not if the various dele
gations at Washington remain divided.
Japan will prove herself fully a match
for a divided conference.. The United
States will be defeated in its purioce if
It continues to bold an aloof attitude and
refuses to engage in any cooperation.
Chicago Thousands
Cheer Italian Hero:
Speaks at Banquet
(By United JJew)
Chicago. Nov. 21. Chicago gave Gen
eral Armando Diax, Italy's war hero, a
tremendous ovation Sunday.
He was greeted by 60.000 cheering
Americans of Italian descent upon his
arrival, while guns on the lake front
boomed an uprorious salute. His prog
ress to his hotel waa virtually over flow
ers, as bis former countrymen tossed
their nosegay contributions in his path.
Following the official welcome and
speeches, he attended mass celebrated by
Archbishop Mundelln and was accorded
the degree of honorary doctor of laws
by Loyola university.
He later reviewed a parade of 60,000
veterans of the World war, patriotic so
cieties and school children. The parade
of Italian and other national societies
with many striking costumes added color
to the long procession.
General Dlas spoke later at a banquet
in bis honor.
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BANK ROBBED OF
MANY SECURITIES
Spokane, Wash-. Nov. 21. (V. P.)
Several thousand dollars In securities
were looted from the state bank at
Spangle early this morning, according
to reports from President Newland of
the bank reaching F. S. Alkus of the
Burns Detective Agency and the sheriffs
office here.
Breaking in a back door, the yeggs
smashed and battered their way through
a solid brick wall into the vault ' Once
inside they- rifled many safety deposit
boxes of securities. Jewelry and cash.
The main safe of the bank was not 1
touched, the reports said. A check of
the amount missing is being made, a
telephone message from Spangle said
The same bank was held up several
weeks ago, a girl cashier being chloro
formed and shot through the arm, ac
cording to her story to officers. . The
robbers were never captured.
The sheriffs office here has a posse
out attempting to trail the bandits' car
through the snow.
JOSEPH BEYER, 8. DIES
Centralis, Wash., Nov. 21. Joseph
Bever, aged 86, Civil war veteran, died
Sunday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Verna Huntington, in this city. He
had lived here for IS years. Another
daughter, Mra W. P. Hudson of Port
lands and a son. E. E. Bever, of Lewis
ton. Idaho, also survive.
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