The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-23
NO PROGRESS
ON PROPOSAL
FOR LAND CUT
None of the Powers Advance
Con crete Pronouncement
Supporting French Attitude
Toward Reduction Of Army.
BRANDS LAST TALK
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-The DEL
egations of the five powers discussed
land armament today. but odefi-
mite declaration of policy resulted
from their deliberations.
None Of the powers, it vas under
stood, presented any proposal looking
toward a concrete pTonouncement sup
porting the French attitude toward
army reduction, as outlined to the
full conference, in plenary session
Monday, by Premier BRAND.
Premier BRAND, attending his last
meeting of the armament group before
his departure for France, made brief
presentation Of the exact position o.
his government, and ii was said that
general discussion, followed along
the lines of that in which the powers
expressed general appreciation of the
French position at Mondays session
The debate led the delegates into
consideration of specific problems of
land armament and it was decided to
appoint subcommittee to deal with
such subjects as aeroplanes, poisonous
gases and other auxiliary means OF
warfare.
BRAND Satisfied
After the two hour and a half ses-
sion was over, the French premier,
despite the failure to make a joint
declaration of policy, expressed gen-
| eral satisfaction with the direction
/ discussions had taken.
! 1t was also indicated by the French
| delegates that NJ. BRAND would re-
| turn to France confident that the na-
tion's attitude had the sympathetic IN
| derstanding of the other national
| groups and that France had nothing to
| fear from subsequent negotiations on
| land armaments.
| Heads of delegations of the FIVE
! powers agreed to meet later in the day
| to form the subcommittee. and TO
| consider duties of the subcommittee
Wanted Expression.
| The premier wanted to take home
with him a definite declaration OF the
powers supporting France in her de
| termination, not to weaken materially
her army, but ii was recognized that
| important obstacles might lie in the
way of so formal a pledge
Before the meeting the French dele
gates let it be known that they would
make no direct request for a precise
declaration from the conference, but
| they evinCed an expectancy that the
other powers might on their own mo-
ton express in a collective written ex-
preston their spoken views at Mon
days open session.
| Far East Progress
! With the first action of the confer
| ence looking to specific application Of
| the general principles adopted with
relation to China taken in the appoint
ment of a subcommittee of represen-
tatives of the nine nations to study
| the whole question of administrative
autonomyn for that country, the far
eastern committee of the whole was
expected to develop further today its
course of procedure on Chinese cues.
| tions
The progress made thus far in ne
| gotiations regarding the far eastern
situation, including the appointment
of this committee, which will give par
t1cular attention to the tariff and tax
restrictions imposed on China by the
powers, was regarded in official quar-
ters today as highly encouraging. al
| though it is recognized that some Of
the most troublesome questions have
not yet been taken up.
Begin important Work
The American advisory committee
of q entered upon its more important
work in connection with the confer
ence today following a conference with
Secretary Hughes yesterday in which
he reported on the present status Of
the negotiations.
Il number of subcommittee of thu
advisory body were instructed after
the conference to prepare reports for
the American delegates on various
subjects Of detail including one on the
use and legitimacy of new weapons Of
warfare,a subject that has not vet
been mentioned in the conference
proper.