Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-12-01
U. S. REPLIES
ON NAVY LIMIT
Answers Jap and British Off
GERS Questions as to Reduc-
ton Program.
REFUSE TO ALTER FIGURES
Americans See No Reason to Change
Tonnage Estimates for Three
Powers Upon Which u. S.
Plan ls Based.

Washington, Nov. pa resolution
declaring for REIMBURSEMENT of foreign
postoffice privileges in China was
adopted by the nine powers sitting
as committee on Pacific and Far
Eastern questions. The date of Jan. 1,
1923. was set for the abandonment Of
foreign postoffices, and this was agreed
to by all the powers represented ex-
cept japan, whose representatives
asked for time to hear from their gov
eminent. The Japanese delegates, it
was said, did not object to Jan. 1,
1923, as the date for abandoning their
postoffices, but felt that they did MT
have the authority to agree to that
date without referring the matter to
Tokyo.
Washington, Nov 20. - American
naval experts presented to the Jap
anese and British officers detailed an
swers to questions presented last week
as to the American naval program.
The full membership of the technical
commission of the arms conference
was not in session.
The extensive examination of figures
of all three powers as to existing naval
strength of each country has not re-
suited in any change of the original
| figures in Secretary Hughes proposal.
| 1t was said authoritatively that no
mistakes in calculation had been re-
vealed during the discussion by the
experts.
The data admitted by the American
group had to do, it was understood,
with questions asked by the Japanese
as to the exact meaning of certain
paragraphs of the American reduction
plan The specific nature of, the points
involved was not revealed.
No Reason toiChange.
1t is known, however, that the Amer
lean experts feel they have been able
to show that there exists no reason
to change any of the tonnage estimates
for the three powers upon which the
American plan was based and it is as
sumed that during the week, possibly
! in a matter of hours, the naval reduc-
| ton problem will be formally returned
| to the conference for action.
| Assurances that the American calcu-
lations as to existing Japanese naval
strength has been found to be accu-
| rate in the American view, lends adj
| ditional weight to the repeated declara-
ton that the American delegates will
stand firmly for the "5-5-3" ratio pro-
posed for limitation of naval construc-
tion at the end of the ten-year holiday
period. 1t also would indicate the i'm
probability that the American dele
gates would agree to retention by
Japan of the battleship Mutsu, al
though no definite statement in this
regard has been made by any member
of the delegation.
Formal disposition of the questions
of extraterritoriality and postal
rights ia China, through specific
declarations prepared by subcommit-
tees was the pre-arranged business of
the conference on converting for an
other committee session.
These declarations will express the
agreed attitude of the conference that
the system of foreign judicial courts
and also the foreign pest offices main
tanned within China, shall be with
drawn as speedily as conditions war
rant The virtual decision of the con-
ference to send a commission of inter-
national jurists to investigate the eff
cheney of the Chinese courts was to
be embodied in the declaration relat-
ing to that subject.
Approve Harding Plan.
Spokesman of two other of the par
ticipating powers, Senator Schanzer
for Italy, whose delegation he heads,
and Vice Foreign Minister Hanlhara
for Japan. one of the four members OF
that delegation, has joined with Rene
Viyiani. head of the French delega-
ton, in indorsing President Hardings
informal suggestion that the present
conference might be starting point
for continuing series Of conferences
to examine world problems.
Senator Schanzer expressed the. con-
viction that adoption of the plan would
represent the greatest and most bene-
fetal result of the Washington con-
ference. while Mr.. Hanihara said he
believed japan would be ready to take
part In any further conferences "wlth
the great object Of maintaining har-
monious cooperation Of the powers