Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-07-28
JAPAN WILL
TAKE PART
Mild Reservations Are
Made by Toxic
Government.
TO SHOW HAND LATER
Tokio's Attitude Trusted-Secretary
Hughes Note-Text of Japan's Re-
ply Given.

Washington, July 28.-Japan gave
notice to the State Department to-
day that she accepted in full the in
vitation of President Harding to par
ticipate in the disarmament confer
ence and to discuss the settlement
of Pacific and Far Eastern prob
LENS.
At the same time the Japanese
laid down what must 1e regarded as
"mild reservation" when, in con-
Guiding their note, they suggested
in order to insure the success of the
conference, "that the introduction
therein of problems such as are of
sole concern to certain particular
powers or such matters as may be
regarded as accomplished facts should
be scrupulously avoided"
There is nothing whatever in the
Japanese communication to indicate
what questions Toxic regards as of
sole concern to any individual power
or what matters she may regard as
accomplished facts. This is to be left
wholly to speculation until in the
preparation of an agenda Japan lays
down her hand.
Meanwhile, the State Department
is wholly satisfied with the outlook
for the conference. Officials of the
department regard the willingness OF
Japan to go into the discussions with
out specific reservations as mark OF
her eagerness to agree with other
powers on a solution for the most
difficult international problems now
remaining unsettled.
There is no disposition whatever on
the part of Administration officials
to distrust the Japanese attitude or
to assume that in the conclusion of
her message there is concealed dyna-
mite which may explode the whole
proceeding and defeat the purposes
of the conference.
Japan's note, made public by Sec
retary Hughes this afternoon, is in
response to communication for
warded to Toxic by the State De-
partment on July %, IN which the
hope was expressed that Japan would
accept the Presidents invitation in
full, leaving open for adjustment the
precise agenda to be arrived at lat
err" Prior to the dispatch of that
communication Japan had accepted
the invitation so far as it related
to limitation of armaments, but had
made INJURY as to what Far Eastern
question would be taken up for con-
sideration.
Mr.. Hughes did not wish to assume
responsibility for even tentative
agenda, but took the position that
once all the powers involved had
agreed to attend the conference they
might interchange views as to the
questions to be discussed and agree
upon an agenda.
Mr.. Hughes note bearing upon this
phase of the matter follows:
The Government of the United
States deeply appreciates the readl-
ness of the Imperial Japanese Gov
ernment to accept the invitation to
attend the Conference on the Limita-
ton of Armaments.
The Secretery of State of the
United States in the course of infor-
NAL conversations with his Excel
lency the Imperial japanese Ambas-
sador at Washington has expressed
the hone that the Imperial Govern
ment would not press its inquiry as
TO the nature and scope of the Pacific
and Far Eastern problems to be dis
cussed at the proposed conference, in
view of the fact that it is desirable
that the full acceptance of the, in
vitation of the American Governrhent
leaves this matter open for adjust
ment in the precise agenda to be ar
rived at later.
The Secretary of State is willing
to proceed with exchanges of opinion
regarding the agenda prior to the
meeting of the conference. He corr
siders it inadvisable. however, at the
present moment to hamper the pro-
gram and in particular to delay the
arrangements for the conference