Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-14
DELEGATES IN
READINESSF0R
SECOND SHOCK
Relief Is Expressed at
Prompt Clearing of
Atmosphere.
NO. 2 FORECAST
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VII

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA. Re.
covered from the first shattering
effects of Secretary Hughes naval
bombshell, conference statesmen be-
gan bracing themselves for the next
detonation from the same quarter.
They believe the new shock is i'm
minent. They expect it to deal with
the correlated subject of the Far
East.
They are convinced 1t also will be heav--
lily charged with dynamite. One experience
with the Hughes brand of high. explosive
diplomacy has sufficed to persuade them
that when the American blast on the
other branch of the conference is re-
leased, it will tear as many holes in pre-
calculations and miscalculations as Sat
urdaTs sixteen inch pronouncement did.
The broad gauge, hammer and -tOngs,
do -it-at-once program the United States
has submitted for cutting down naval ex-
penditure is an augury to every confer
ence leader that proposals little less
drastic are in store for restoring Far
Eastern and Pacific affairs to 4 peace
basis.
1t was Sunday of>erave heart-search-
ing in Washington conference quarters.
Consultations between delegates and their
naval and military experts and among
the delegates and experts of various pow
ers, were in constant progress. The Brit
ish are awaiting word from Premier
Lloyd George and the admiralty in Lon
don before committing themselves with
any dehniteness to general approval of
the Hughes propositions. At q japanese
press reception last night, Prince Toku-
gawa and Admiral Baron Kato announced
in formal statement that "any doubts
as to the success of the conference which
they had when they left Japan have now
been ''dispelled." But beyond platonic
assurances that the American program
promptly has provided debatabIe basis
for discussion. neither British nor Jap
anese spOkesmen are as yet in position
to pronounce it satisfactory to the point
of acceptability.
HEARS ACCEPTANCE Is
BEYOND QUESTION"
One hears on both British and Japanese
authority that acceptance is beyond
question" but it will be safer to write
history than prophesy on that score. In
conference circles generally wherever men
associated with amy of the eight powers
are encountered there is an unmistakable
sentiment of relief that the atmosphere
has at least been cleared so promptly and
so uneQuivocally.
That sentiment prompts a widespread
notion that Secretary Hughes will lay
his hand Of Far Eastern cards upon the
table with equal courage and comprehen
siveness. Authorities declared he would
hardly have played his naval trumps if
he had not cards just as strong in re-
serve affecting Americas Far Eastern
program. That program, it is felt, Is so
intimately linked with limitation of sea
armament that Afr. Hughes is bound to
come forward with certain corollary pro-
posals
If the United States is willing to scrap
$3.50 ,0OO, 600 worth Of naval construction
and fifteen semi-modern warships already
in commission and in addition concedes
the right of Great Britain for ten years
to have a margin of 100, 600 tons of capi-
taIship superiority, it is patent to con-
ference leaders that the United States will
expect something in return.
WHAT Is EXPECTED
IN BOMBSHELL NO. 2.
1t is in that direction that the con-
ference is expecting Hughes bombshen
number two. Its precise ingredients have
been triumphantly guarded, as were the
contents of number one. But what Wash
ington expects is a pronouncement that
America requires:
/. Abolition of the AnglO-Japanese
alliance.
2. Evacuation of ShantunE by
Japan.
3. Evacuation of Siberia by Japan.
t. Remuneration by Japan of all
claims to special interests" in China
under the Lansing -Tshii agreement OF
1917.
s. REIMBURSEMENT by all concerned
Great Britain, Japan, France and
others-Of spheres of interest in
China.
g. Binding undertakings that pos
session of private property in China,
especially railroads, confers no po-
TiticaI or military rights in any
guise.
T. Agreements that "1ease holds" Of
Chinese port areas, like the British
lease hold of Wei-Hai-Wei and the
Japanese lease hold of kiao-Chau
Bay, are in no respect to be infringe
ments of Chinese territorial SOW
ereignty.
g. An understanding concerning
fortificatiOns in the Pacific. whereby
the United States might forego for
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