Judging from the reports of the Conference which appeared in the Chinese press, the sessions were anything but harmonious, and shortly after the formal—sessions Were over, there appeared a statement in one of the Chinese papers that some Chinese organizations had passed resolution' condemning: the meeting as "an attempt on the part of the Japanese to enslave the other Orientals." The first session had to be postponed for a week owing to the delay in the arrival of the Indian delegate, Bir. Pratapy, Singh-Khan, who came to Shani hajfrom his place of exile in Afghanistan, by way of Japan, in Order to avoid coming in contact with the British authorities; ho is tated to have landed at Woosung at the entrance to the Shanghai he was met by the ates and brought. to, Shanghai, carefully Shanghai foreign settle according to report, he h Nanking for a conference with Nationalist officials, The Japanese delegation, which was the most important and most numerous, was headed by Mr. Imasato, member of Parliament and a follower of the late Count Okuma, who was the father of the "Asia for the Asiatics" movements and was responsible for the first is generally supposed to have been promoted following the passage of the American immigration law barring Asintics from admission and the passage of similar legislation by the British Dominions, Japanese "Aggression" Tackled 'The first clement of discord at' the Shanghai Conference developed when two Chinese delegates troduced a resolution demanding that the Japanese, "if they really' are in earnest regarding the aims of the Pan-Asiatic Conferen should conse their aggressive attitude towards China and withdraw their troops from Manchuria." This motion was seconded by Mr. Pratapp, the Indian delegate, and was carried, all the delegates voting for it with the exception of the Japanese. One of the Chinese delegates told the Japanese that while, as they claimed, it might not be the time and place to discuss withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, if they were in accord with the spirit of. Pan-Asianism, they should set the example for the other nations by clearing their troops out of Manchuria and adopting a different attitude toward the Chinese people. Ultimately the Conference divided into three amps, the Chinese and Indians on one side, the Japanese on another, and the other delegates taking sort of neutral position.
At the second d®y's session the Japanese delegation brought vp three subjects for discussion; (1) that all measures taken with a view to racial discrimination should be abolished; (2) that all naval stations and bases at Singapore and Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, should ied to ensure peace in the that the League of Nations appears to direct its attention chiefly toward the protection of the interests of the powerful nations only. Before these subjects could be discussed to any great extent, the Chinese delegates brought in four proposals as follows:—
1, That the delegates should do all within their power to help Asiatic peoples to secure self-determination, That the Japanese delegates and. Mongolias (0) fo agree. to ib) to agree! military and aval forces from Chit (2) to conclude within six months a Sino-Japanese commercial treaty on banis of, equality; "and.
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