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A REPORT

UNIV. OF

BY

WESTEL W. WILLOUGHBY

Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University;
Formerly Legal Adviser to the Chinese Republic;

Technical Expert to the Chinese Delegation to the Conference
on Limitation of Armament, at Washington, D. C.;
Author of "Foreign Rights and Interests in China"

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PREFACE

It is a remarkable fact that, with the exception of a part of one session which was devoted to the situation in Siberia, the entire work of the Conference at Washington, so far as it dealt with political questions in the Pacific and Far East, was concerned with the affairs of China. An account, therefore, of China at the Conference will necessarily cover almost the entire proceedings of that body upon its purely political side as distinguished from its deliberations and discussions with reference to the reduction of existing, and the limitation of future, armaments.

The present work is in the nature of a report upon the work of the Chinese Delegation at Washington, but, not being official in character, there will be an opportunity for the author to speak, upon some points at least, rather more fully and frankly than it would be appropriate and expedient for the official representatives of the Chinese Government to do. It is, however, proper to say that the author served as Technical Expert to the Chinese Delegation throughout its work at Washington; that, in that capacity, he had access to all the records of the Conference so far as they related to China; that he was kept currently informed of the proceedings of the Conference and of its com

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The discussion, or rather the statements made, in the conference relating to Siberia, are given in the Appendix.

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