Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-28
Instructions to French Dele
gates Are Said to For
bid Compromise
JAPS STAND FIRM
New Conference Forecasted by White
House to Deal With Questions Lelt
Unsettled.

Washington Dec. 2S.-Developments
regarded here as distinctly discourage
ING to the American and British dele
cations to the Arms Conference mark
ed the first day after the Christ
mas recess.
These, summarized, were:
Instructions, which are said to for
hid acceptance of the American COM
promise on submarines will be lald
bfore the Naval Armament Commit
tee tomorrow by the French delegates.
The Japanese, after receiving IN
structions from home, announced that
they would make no further conces-
sions as to Shantung.
The Japanese also intimated that
they might ask exemption OF their
homeland from the Pacific treaty pro-
visions.
On top of this came the definite
forecast from the White House OF a
further conference, probably within a
wear, to take up the submarine and
auxiliary craft issue with other sea-
power nations, as well as the Chinese
question, if these are not settled by
the present discussinos.
The second conference, it was in
dicated, also might consider the Eu-
ropean economic status, although the
President let it be known that ne is
still firmly behind the pending For
eign Debt Refundng bill.
Suggestion for this future conclave
met with cold reception at the State
Department, where keen hopes are
still held for more far-reaching re-
suits from the present one. In some
quarters this attitude was taken to
show.a renewed lack Of sympathy be-
tween the Department and the White
House.
Washington, Dec. 2S.--Following
receipt this evening by the French
delegates of instructions from Paris
on the submarine question and a
brief conference between NJ. Sarraut
and Admiral De Bon with Secretary
Hughes, word spread around Wash
ington that the Hughes submarine
proposals, made last Saturday. were
unsatisfactory to the French.
The latter's position will be set
forth tomorrow in the session of the
Naval Committee, it is stated.
Whether their instructions will lead
them to fiat stand for 10000 subma-
rine tonnage, or will permit them to
affect compromise between that
claim and the Hughes proposal that
they accept the status quo, which
would give them about 81 800 tons, is
not known.
These reports came at the close of
day of gloom and stagnation. The
hope that France would come into line
on submarines did not expire, but it
faded fast. Added to that, as a cause
for pessimism, the Conference found
itself able to do little more in Far
Eastern questions than tinker here
and therein way that gave little
aid and comfort to the Chinese, Jap
an stood in the way of progress, for
after receiving .cablegram from
Toxic the delegates let it be under
stood that they would make no more
concessions in the Shantung railway
controversy.
The net of the day in Far East
ern matters was information that the
Chinese probably will be granted an
effective 5 per cent. customs duty,
instead Of the present nominal per
cent. which actually yields but g 1-2
per cent; and a statement from one
of the japanese delegates that Japan
probably will seek to exempt her
homeland from the four-power treaty.