The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-12-02
i, 6, STANDS PAT
IN NAVAL RATIO
Replies to Questions by Japan
and British Officers.
WILL NOT ALTER FIGURES
Conferees Vote Foreign Post Offices
Out of China, but Japan Delays
Assent to Date of January
1. 1928.
WILL NOT ALTER FIGURES

Washington, Nov %. - American
naval experts presented to the Jap
anese and British officers detailed an
swers to questions presented last week
as to the American naval program.
The full membership of the technical
commission of the arms conference
was not in session.
The extensive examination Of figures
of all three powers as to existing naval
strength of each country has not re-
suited in any change of the original
figures in Secretary Hughes proposal.
It was said authoritatively that no
mistakes in calculation had been re-
vealed during the discussion by the
experts.
The data admitted by the American
group had to do, it was understood
with questions asked by the Japanese
as to the exact meaning of certain
paragraphs of the American reduction
plan. The specific nature of the points
involved was not revealed.
No Reason to Change.
1t is known, however, that the Amer
lean experts feel they have been able
to show that there exists no reason to
change any of the tonnage estimates
for the three powers upon which the
American plan was based and it is as
sumed that during the week, possibly
in a matter of hours, the naval reduc-
ton problem will be formally returned
to the conference for action.
Assurances that the American calcu-
lations as to existing Japanese naval
strength has been found to be accu-
rate in the American view, lends addl-
tionaI weight to the repeated declara-
ton that the American delegates will
stand firmly for the "5-5-3" ratio pro-
posed for limitations of naval cOnStruc-
ton at the end of the ten-year holiday
period. 1t also would indicate the i'm
probability that the American dele
gates would agree to retention Dy
Japan of the battleship Mutsu, al
though no definite statement in this
regard has been made by any member
of the delegation.
Approve Harding Plan.
Spokesman of two other of the par
ticipating powers, Senator Schanzer
for Italy, whose delegation he heads,
and Vice Foreign Minister Hanihara
for Japan, one of the four members of
that delegation, has joined with Rene
Viviani, head of the French delega-
ton, in indorsing President Harding's
informal suggestion that the present
conference might be a starting point
for continuing series Of conferences
to examine world problems.
Senator Schanzer expressed the con-
viction that adoption of the plan would
represent the greatest and most bene-
fetal result Of the Washington con-
ference, while Mr.. Hanihara said he
believed Japan would be ready to take
part in any further conferences with
the great object of maintaining har-
monious cooperation of the powers
and world peace"
Japan Is BaIky.
A resolution declaring for relinQuish-
ment Of foreign post office privileges in
China was adopted by the nine powers
sitting as a committee on Pacific and
Far-Eastern questions. The date of
January 1, 1923, was set for the aban-
donment of foreign post offices, and
this was agreed to by all the powers
represented except Japan, whose rep
resentatives asked for time to hear
from their government. The Japanese
delegates, it was said, did not object
to January 1, 1923, as the date for
abandoning their post offices, but felt
that they did not have the authority to
agree to that date without referring
the matter to Tokyo.