The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-07
new ENTENTE
FOR PACIFIC
DISCUSSIONS
Four Power Agreement
Would Not Be Alliance or
Technical Entente - or
Joint Consultation.
SCOPE TO Be LIMITED
CBv Associated Pressp

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE four !
power agreement being considered by
the United States, Great Britain, Ja-
pan and France, it was learned today
from official American sources. would
be an agreement for joint consulta-
tion of any matters affecting inter
ests of those nations i'll the Pacific
Islands, and not an alliance or tech /
nical entente.
The agreement is in process of be /
ing reduced to treaty form it was
said. and if accepted is to be submit
ted to the senate.
The proposed undertaking is de
signed to do away with the Anglo
Japanese alliance, and proposals have
gone to Japan for renunciatiOn of that
alliance, if the new agreement should
be consummated
AS now under negotiation, the agree
ment is to be limited TO the Pacific
islands Under the tentative propos-
ais each of the powers would agree
1 TO consult each other before going TO
war over any differences which might
arise relating to those islands
Var Not Involved.
The agreement American officials
said, would not deal with Notifications
! in the Pacific nor with questions re-
/ lating to the island of Yap. Neithel
would it deal with any matter If
( feCting China. but only those relating
/ 10 islands Of the Pacific.
The questions at issue between tho
United States and Japan, relating tU
! cable facilities and other matters af-
| fecting the island of zap are to be
dealt with in d separate treaty, which
! is said to be near completion.
! The proposed fourpower agreement
to deal with the Pacific islands is
said already to have been given ap-
proyal in principle by British repre-
( sentatives at the Washington con-
ference.
Cabed to London.
The tentative proposal for an agree
ment has been Cabled to London as
we'll as TO Toxic as a result of the last
meeting of the arms conferences Big
Three.
>, Official confirmation that the sug-
gestiOn for d new international con-
cert, has taken definite form, also was
given today by the British. Details
were not revealed but an authorized
! British spokesman said that: certain
I suggestions We're formulated and tele-
graphed to London" after the confer
ence last week between Secretary
i Hughes. Arthur j. Balfour and Ad-
miral Baron KatO.
The British spokesman added that
it might fairly be inferred that if
these proposals should find general
acceptance they would have the effect
of terminating the AnglO-Japanese al
lance for which there would be no
further use.
. Although no similar official state
ment has been made by the Japanese,
it is known that the tentative agree
ment was Cabled also TO Toxic and
the delay in receiving a more definite
statement of position from the Jap
anese capital, IS attributed generally
to questions raised by this new phase
OF the negotiations, rather than to in
decision over the naval ratio.
Meantime the American delegation
Is revealing nothing whatever regard
ing its attitude toward the proposed
arrangement American spOkesmen
hold 10 their insistenCe that the ques-
ton is not at a stage where anything
may be said about il to the public.
Belief that the armament confer
| ence will demonstrate the wisdom of
internationally coming tOgether-na-
, tions facing each other and settling
pIODlelIS NILIOul IeSOIl ~ dl HIS. " DE-
e expressed today by President Hard
/ ing in receiving a large delega.
tion representing the ma ional board
= of farm organizations.
r Acceptance by the Japanese govern
: ment of the American proposals for
: naval ratio now hinges on the ability
} of the powers to reach an agreement
7 for the limitation of Notifications in
= the Far East, according to the British
r view as expressed today 1t was satC
that the Japanese might BE willing tC
/ accept the fve-fve-three ratio on re
= ceiving assurances in certain respects
D and it was further explained that these
2 assurances applied to the reduction o
t existing fortifcations in the western
t Pacific.