The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-11-22
No Likelihood of Any
Action Regarding Land
Forces, While the Far
Eastern Question Will
Be Put Aside On Adop-
ton of Generalities

Washington, Nov. 22-(By the Ac,
sociated Press. with the Far East
ern negotiations advanced to a stage
of agreement on the principles by the
powers declaring their intention to
respect the administrative as well as
the territorial integrity OF China, the
washington conference was prepared
to resume discussion on that basis to-
day at a further executive session.
AS proposed by Elihu Root OF the
American delegation, and adopted by
all the nations after two hours of de-
bate in executive session yesterday,
the declaratory resolution constitut-
ing the first definite agreement of the
conference commits the the powers
also to policy of providing fullest
opportunity for development OF sta
Bile government in China and at the
same time refraining from seeking
special rights and privileges that
would abridge the rights of other ma
tlonals. While not providing for set
tlement of any of the specific prob
lens confronting China the declara-
tlon touches in general terms most OF
the principles for which China asked
in her bill of rights" and its adoption
was manifeStly gratifying to her
spokesmen here. The effect of the
declared policy on the internal situa-
tlon in China was generally viewed
today as depending on how far the
administrative integrity and the spe-
clal rights" provisions might be car
r1ed IN their full application. Admiral
Baron kato, head of the Japanese del
egation, has expressed perfect salts
faction with the resolution and some of
the members of that delegation have
. interpreted it as to be applied prob
ably only to- the future They have
so tar declined to go further in their
analysis Of these provisions as their
I apple tion might affect the leases
4 which Japan holds in China, any in
sterference with which she is regarded
as certain to resist. 1t Is also indi-
seated that any attempt to construe
The principle of lad administrative integ-
rity" as putting an end to the extra
sSterritorial rights OF the powers would
meet with opposition from several
quarters.
With negotiations on the American
naval armament proposal apparently
approaching some conclusive stage, it
Arthur J. Balfour and Baron Kato
would resume today their conference
of yesterday which was attended by
naval experts of three powers The
American group in this conference
were understood to have undertaken
to furnish at the request of the other
(, powers certain technical data before
the committee bearing on the naval
n inf aol -
heads of the three delegations chiefly
concerned in the naval plan was tax
en- as an indication of some definite
progress towards an agreement by
the naval committee on the American
proposal.
Washington, Nov. 22-(By the AS
sociated Press s.)-Opinions have been
exchanged among the arms delegates
with such unprecedented directness
that with the conference only ten
days old, some of the experienced dip
lomatists here believe they can see,
almost with Precision what it will and
what it will not be possible to accom-
plish.
Following the example of the Amer
! lean delegation in laying down
sweeping naval reduction proposal at
the opening session, the representa-
tives of the other powers have put
aside almost without exception the
usual diplomatic indirectness that be-
fogs such negotiation, and have re-
versed the dictum Of Tallyrand that
language is given to diplomats "to
conceal their thoughts"
With the respective heads of the
American, British and Japanese dele
cations working in direct personal
conference almost daily In the naval
reduction plan, there are indications
that an agreement on all but details
is near at hand. In the same way read
mess of nations to commit them
selves to general principles relating
to the Far East and the outspoken
objection of Japan to discussing de-
tails of that situation seem to have
crystalized quickly a conviction that
adoption of a set of principles that
those agreed upon yesterday pressage
the outcome of the Far Eastern ques-
X tion.
The whole question of land arma-
ments seems to have been pretty we'll
+ settled by the frank presentation Of
4 the case of France delivered In yes
\ terday's plenary session by Premier
+ BRAND. The French statesmen made
\ It at once apparent that different re-
II adjustments of land forces will be
\ impossible in the view Of France be-
cause Of existing conditions. There
remains the important question of
fortifications on which there has been
~ no expression, but which may come to
the fore when the deliniation of prin-
ciples relating to the Far East have
gone as far as seems possible,
consideration Of the Far Eastern
problems was renewed today by the
delegates Of the nine natl sitting
= again as . commit ttoe of TIE whole