The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-12-31
NETHERLA ANDS'
RIGHT ON YAP
AGREED UPON
Arrangement Whereby that
Country, as Well as u. S.
and Japan, Given Cable
Rights on Island Settled.
MAKE RESERVATIONS
fBy Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. S1-An ar
rangement whereby the Netherlands,
as well as the United States and Jap
an, are to be given cablerights on the
Island of zap, was agreed to today by
the heads of delegations of the five
major powers participating in the
Washington conference and of the
Netherlands.
Great Britain and Italy accepted the
arrangement with reservations, the
former indicating that British inter
ests might also desire in the future to
have certain rights on the island and
Italy, claiming an interest in one of
the three existing cables that touch
the island.
The arrangement as tentatively
agreed to provides for allotment of the
1ap-Guam cable to the United States
The Yap-Shanghai cable to Japan, and
the Yap-Menado cable to Holland
The end of the naval limitation
work of the arms conference was def
initely in sight today as the naval
experts of the bowers turned to the
task of working out detailed agree
ments on the program now virtually
tee, which was in adjournment today
until next week.
At the same time the Root sub
committee took up today the drafting
of the Root proposal agreed to in sub
stance by all the powers to reaffirm
existing rules of naval warfare against
merchant craft and declare their ap-
plication to submarines and invite ad-
| herence of all nations
One Proposal Left
| Agreement by the naval committee
yesterday on aggregate tonnage limi-
| tations for aircraft carriers left for
disposition on the limitation program
| only the proposal to limit future auxi-
| iary craft to 10000 tons and their
armament of guns of not more than
eight inches. Approval was given
this proposal by all delegations but
| the French, who deferred formal an
swer pending advices from Paris
which are expected to permit the COM
mittee to complete the naval lfmita-
! ton agreement next week. II will
| then take up also the second Root
proposal to prohibit entirely the use
of submarines against merchant craft,
instructions regarding which are now
awaited by both the French an Jap
anese.
| A five power treaty embodying all
the points upon which agreement has
| been reached is in process of drafting
and will include the capital ship agree
ment, the agreement on airplane car
riers, the displacement limitation for
auxiliary craft and the resolutions fl
nally accepted regarding submarine.
/ Clearing the Way.
I With progress in the naval negotiG-
tions clearing the way for resumption
of the far eastern questions, possibly
next week the problems remaining TO
be settled there had received addi-
tional emphasis today in the statement
of one of the Chinese delegates that
they would attempt to transfer the
Shantung issue into the full confer
ence to break the deadlock in their
negotiations with the Japanese. At
the same time the latter reasserted
Yesterday their position that the Shan
of the conference and did not come
within the scope of its deliberations
The tentative draft of a six-poWer
treaty embodying this arrangement in
replacing the American japanese
treaty that had been negotiated re-
, garding Yap was submitted to the
plenipotentiaries at todays meeting.
The treaty was not signed today, the
, delegates being without definite in
struction on the subject. Another
meeting is to be held next week.