Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-23
ENJOYS DISCUSS
DETAILS Of FAR
EAST AND ARMS
CUT PROPOSALS
Negotiations Move More
Slowly as the Delegates
Get Down TO Serious Con-
SideratiOn of Problems.
BRANDS PLEA FALLS
ON SYMPATHETIC EARS
Committee of the Whole on
Land Armament viii
Meet Today French Pre-
mier is to Speak.

Washington. Nov. % (by the AS
sociated Press. )-Negotiations re-
lating TO both the Far East and
armament limitation moved more
slowly today as attention of the
arms delegates passed from general
policies to details.
Cnina's economic embarrass.
ments formed the text for the Far
Eastern discussions, which resulted
In the appointment of a sub-com-
mittee of representatives. of nine
nations to study the subject of ad-
ministrative autonomy for China
with particular reference to tariff
.and tax restrictions.
The land armament problem al
$50 was considered at informal con-
ferences and a meeting of the arm
ament committee of the whole was
called for tomorrow, with the ex-
pectation that Premier BRAND, of
France, would say a last word as
to his country's attitude on armies.
Naval Armament.
on the side of naval armament,
informal exchanges continued be-
tween delegates and naval experts
with an air of growing confidence
that details of the American plan
would eventually bring all the pow
ers into agreement. 1t is possible
that the naval plan may receive
some consideration at tomorrow's
meeting of the five delegations
which constitute the armament
committee of the whole, but the
greater attention is expected to
center on land armament in view
of the imminence of NJ. BRANDS
departure for France. 1t is tho
preservation of her army, with the
moral backing Of the principal
powers, that most interests France
at present and It Is known NJ. Bri-
and would be pleased to take back
to France formal conference en-
dorsement of the position he has
taken against material reduction.
Sympathy for France.
Whether the other delegations
will be willing to go so far as to
take formal action of that charaC-
ter, is uncertain, although 1t Is
taken for granted that at tomor-
rows meeting there will be many
general expressions Of apprecia-
ton for the reasons which impel
France TO maintain the largest
army.
Land, naval and Far Eastern
questions were talked over by Sec
retary Hughes today with the Amer
lean advisory committee of 81, ana
after he had presented a report
were instructed to
prepare reports for the American
delegates on details. The subma-
rine issue raised by Great Britain
will be one question to be investi-
gated and another whose inclus-
ion was regarded as forecasting a
new angle Of the negotiations, will
be the use and legitimacy of new
weapons Of warfare. Thus Tar
that subject has not been me1-
toned in the conference.
Chinese Autonomy.
The subcommittee on Chinese
administrative autonomy author
lied today by the full body of dele
gates Of the nine nations, sitting
as a committee of the whole on the
Far East, is expected to find Its
chief task in an attempted re Dr.
rangement of the customs arrange
ments which have kept China
from imposing q duty of more tnan
five per cent on her imports. IN
there Is expected to DC
an inquiry into the international
agreements from which certain
specified items of the republics
tax returns must be turned over
Immediately for payment of for
eign obligations.
All of these restrictions the Chin
ese declare, have resulted In such
n curtailment of national revenues
as to make economic progress i'm
possible. The Chinese delegates
have emphasized the tariff auton-
omy principles as one of the most
important she wished to establish.
and there are said to have been
In todays discussions
that this view had met with much
sympathy among other delega-
tionS.
The committee was author
lied at the suggestion OF Senate"
Of the American dels-
cation.
Progress Is Encouraging.
Although the delegates have not
taken up some of the most trou-
blesome questions involved in the
Far Eastern situation, the progress
made thus far was described In
official circles tonight as highly
encouraging. So rapidly and
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