Evening star., 1921-11-23
LAND ARMAMENTS
BEFORE DELEGATES
ENCLOSED SESSION
No Definite Declaration OF
Policy Results From To-
days Deliberations.
NO PROPOSAL OFFERED
TO APPROVE BRAND VIEW
Subcommittee to Be Named to
Deal With Airplanes and
Poisonous Gases.
Ry the Associated Press.


Ry the Associated Press.
The delegates of the five powers
discussed land armament today, but no
definite declaration of policy resulted
from their deliberations.
None of the powers. it was under
stood. presented any proposal looking
toward a concrete pronouncement 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 De
brief presentation of the exact posi-
Iion of his government, ana II vas
said that a general discussion 1oi,
appreciation Of the French position
at Mondays session.
VIII Name Committees.
The debate led the delegates into a q
land armament, and it was decided to
appoint subcommittee to deal with
such subjects as airplanes, poisonous
gases and other auxiliary means OF
After the wo-hour-and-a-half ses-
sion was over the French premier.
despite the failure to make a joint
declaration of policy, expressed gem
eral satisfaction with the direction
the discussions had taken.
1t was also indicated by the French
delegates that NJ. BRAND would re-
tion's attitude had the sympathetic
understanding of the other national
groups and that France had nothing
to fear. from subsequent negotiations
on land ornaments.
Statement of Conference.
The formal statement issued by the
conference committee following the
The committee on the subject OF
the Limitation of armament met at
the Pan-American building at 1880
this morning. All the members were
present except Baron Shidehara and
Sig. Media
"After a general discussion of the sub
jects relating to land armament and
new agencies of warfare. these were
of the heads Of the delegations, with in
structions to bring in an order OF proce-
dure with regard to these subjects and
with power to appoint subccmmittees to
deal with the question relating to poison
saA aircraft and rules Of international
law"
No meetings OF the conference or any
of the committees will be held tomor-
row.
Heads Of delegations Of the five pow
ERE aKT99Q u HIccl IdtCi III tLiC Aoy ~
form the subcommittee. and to consider
duties of the subcommitteeS
The delegations OF the f1ve powers
went into the first executive confer
ence on land ornaments today. with
the French group hoping that the ne
gotiations would be pressed to the
point Of = formal expression of some
character before the departure of
Premier BRAND for France.
Overshadows Other Issues.
The land armament discussion over
shadowed momentarily developments
relating to the other questions before
the arms conference, although the
naval experts continued their work
on details Of the American reduction
plan and members of all nine delega-
when the committee of the whole on
the far eastern problem assembled
again late in the day. 1t was indi-
Gated that the far eastern meeting
probably would develop an effort to
include additional declarations of
policy in the Root resolution already
The assembling of the Ave major
ment without waiting for a decision
on naval reductions and the far east
was a deviation from the contem-
plated program of the conference. and
is understood to have resulted direct
" from the desire of the French to
nut the powers on record before the
departure of NJ. BRAND. Land arma-
1nent comes far down on the tentative
agenda of the conference and the
previous intention apparently had
been to let the subject lie over for
the present.
Applause Pleases BRAND.
Members of the French delegation
described NJ BRAND today as satis-
fed personally with the sympathetic
demonstration that followed his
speech at Mondays plenary session.
He was said to feel that these de-
Velopments had largely attained one
of the principal objects of his COM
ing to the conference. but some OF
his associates thought a logical
sequence to Mondays expressions
would be resolution embodying in
compact and definite form the senti-
ments of the several delegations.
The progress made thus far in
negotiations regarding the far east
crn situation. including the appoint
ment of this committee which will
give particular attention to the
tariff and tax restrictions imposed on
China by the powers, was regarded
in official quarters today as highly
encouraging, although it is recog-
some questions have not yet been