The Washington herald., 1921-12-28
DEADLOCK FEARED
French Delegates Receive
New Instructions
From Paris.
ANOTHER MEETING
OF POWERS SEEN
Undersea Craft Issue
May Force New Par
ley of Powers.

a very crucial moment in the
naval armament conference vii BE-
reached today.
The naval subcOmmittcc. con-
lIisinG the delegations from the
United states. Great Britain. France.
Japan and Italy, at IL this morn
ing will resume consideration Ur
the submarine question. The French
delegation has received new in
structions from Paris. They refuse
to discuss them. But thCy int
mated that csblcd advices that the
French cabinet intended standing
out for a total submarine tonu:. q
of $4,000 were not far from to-
facts
II they do this the American dele
cation, will be compelled 10 dCcId,
whether they will advocate witt
drawal OF il for decision at another
md later gathering. or, whether
they will risk a complete deadlock
Of the conference 10y msInJA;nIu,.
their position that Japan. France
and Italy shall be entitled only to
the amount OF submarine tonnS g
they now have.
New Conference Rumor.-
Suggestions that possibly another
Conference would be held TO deal
with the submarine problem. at
which every nation having a navy
would be asked TO be represented.
have been current for nearly
week At the White House yester-
day il was stated that President
Harding had given cons deratfon q,
the question. But officials OF he
al
night that they did not believe n
would be wise to delay a decision
by the present conference
There was a general attitude on
the part Of American spokesmen TO
lnJlst that IL would be very wei
10 get through with the presen,
conference before talking about an
other. II also was intimated that
the attitude OF France. where &c. 600
tons is insisted upon. and Jauap
where $4,000 tons has beer asked
Is entirely unreasonable. and tina,
the American delegation was pre-
pared 10 make this very plain 70
the world IL the conference is dead
locked as result.
Bars Further Progress.
Until the submarine ouesrior
many is settled or is sidetracker
'he conference cannot make 4n-
pr3eress. The relationship OF ~.
submarine TO all other auxiliary.
craft is SO close that untn q
-, T,sIon on the former is reached il
PIoNe impossible Go even con-.
sloer questions Of ratio
Chairman Hughes said Las, nil.
that he understood the Frencb dsI.
cation will be ready TO r-o....,
when the naval committee resur,...
its sessions at II o'clock toda,- :,
Tar IL il not known what. the Ia
anese have heard from Tokyo Tbefr
snokesmen say that they will cor,
nunicate any message thar m.
get to the conference before MAJ.
ing it public.
AdNioes from Tokyo last MI, de-
clared thac the delegation has Lec-
lastru>ted 10 insist on Japan boirc
allotted the $4,000 tons includc5 a,
the initial Hughes suggestion. Ian
anese naval experts explained tha,
they had agreed to the capital sbtr
reduction with the definite idez I-
mind that they would not he as,- 81
TO make any further sacrifice so f.T
as submarines and light cruisers
are concerned. With this belle,
well grounded in their minds tn.
delegation was inclined to beiiev
that the proposal of Chairman
hughes that they be content to ac-
cept their present submarine ton
mage was trife far-fetchcd
Italian Delegate. Meet.
Incidentally. the Italian dsleEa.
tion again last night stated that II
is not willing to permit the decision
OF the submarine question TO h.
postponed to some future date. Th-
naval experts claim that IL vouls
be next to impossible for the dele
cation to work out plans for a com
petent naval auxiliary feet withoul
knowing in advance what proper.
ton of that feet was 60 be com
posed OF submarines.
The British delegation win stand
pat on it5 demand that the subma
rine actually be outiawed, although
they will not renew that demand
/ directly at this time Their position
has been made plain by resolutions
inserted in the conference records
and Il will he publicly proclaimed
as soon as il is possible to do ~
In plenary session.
Wants More Gatherings.
Incidentally White House sources
again yesterday made it plain that
President Harding will be dlsap-
pointed should the present confer
ence adjourn without making ar.
rangements for future gather ing'
Of a similar nature. This should
be done, in the opinion of Presideni
Harding, whether this conference T.
a complete success or a partial fail
ure. The spokesman Of the AmeTi-
can delegation last night said that
he had received no oricial word re-
gardine either the Japanese or the
French submarine position.
The attitude Of the American
delegation was described as one n,
waiting" last night The Snhms
rine subject had been divided into
three SECTIONS at the outset
First. there was tho quest on -
| whether submarines we've 90 -
abolished. This has hncn - 4
In the negative. four n1' pa. to