The Washington times., 1921-12-26
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instant favor. nor did they expect tina:
It would be Immediately accepted by
the powers concerned. What they
hoped for was that 1t would relieve an
obviously impossible situation between
France and Great Britain. and pro.
vided the basis for renewed discus
sion which would give promise OF
Leading TO some definite accomplish.
ment.
This, they believe, the new program,
already has done. At any rate, ont
of the American delegates said today.
II has moved Great Britain to aban
don her fight for the abolition of the
submarine. and II has not been finally
rejected by either France or Japan.
Shields has declared he will vote
against the four-power treaty. He
was an ''irreconcilable" in the League
of Nations fight, lining up with
Borah. johnson, Moses and McCor-
mick. McCumber and Kellogg were
mild reservationists." All of the
Democratic committee members are
non-commital regarding the new
treaty except Shields.
willing To Hear Other Proposals.
1t was emphasized today that
there is nothing hard or unyielding
about the new American figures
so 900 tons for each Great Britain
and the United States, 81, 900 tons for
each France and Japan. and 81 900
tons for Italy.
The American delegation is ready
and willing. 1t was stated. to hear
any other proposals which give prom
Use Of an earlier or more equitable
settlement.
The American role In the subma-
rine controversy is that Of benevo-
lent mediator. purely and simply, il
was stated today by one Of the dele
gates.
There In an undercurrent of senti-
ment in certain foreign quarters
notably In the French. that the pres
ent conference pass over entirely
the question of submarines and other
auxiliary fighting craft. and take 1t
up later at some future conference
That there will be another conference
is regarded as q certainty, and the
French believe 1t will be better
than the present one.
lea. there Is opposition to such
course. the Americans believing in
that old proverb: Never put off un
til tomorrow what you can do today"
A future conference, II not uncertain,
Is at least many months away. and
the Americans believe the settlement
Of the auxiliary ship A question in
Washington Ia a naturaf corrolary to
the settlement that already has been
effected with respect to capital ships.
Conference Lays Today.
Meanwhile the conference marked
time today to give the French and
Japanese experts an opportunity TO
study the proposal In more detail. and
perhaps to evolve supplementary pro-
posals.
1t was expected that during the day
reply would be received to the
urgent cables which the French ana
Japanese delegates sent to Paris and
Toxic late Saturday. These will be
communicated to the conference to.
morrow. II received.
So far as the French and japanese
delegations in Washington are con-
cerned, they are dead against accept
ance of the American program az pro
posed. and they have 50 advised their
respective delegations.
Opinions Don't Always Prevail.
1t is recognized. however. that the
opinions held by the delegates them
selves do not always prevail, as was
proven in the case OF the French
capital-ship program.
In any event, the opinion prevailed
In authoritative quarters today that
the submarine controversy will Ger
tainly be cleared up by the end OF the
week
The Far East situation Is giving the
conference leaders more real concern
than Is the submarine question. A
real deadlock exists in the Far East
end of the conference. The private
CONVEX sations between the Japanese
and Chinese over the return of Shan
tung have been discontinued. and in
side the conference itself there has
Eastern matters for more than two
weeks.
Session Hurriedly Adjourned.
At the last meeting Of the Far East
committee, the session was hurriedly
adjourned when China presented the
highly dangerous issue of whether the
twenty-one japanese demands were to
be considered.
emma uefilduus t1dt TIE NhiiQlty wv
these treaties, which she contends
were wrung from her under duress,
be considered by the powers here.
Japan declares they shall not be,
that the twenty-one demands are past
history, and that Japan has treaties
TO show for everything she has OBJ
tained from China
There the situation rests, and II is
causing the conference leaders no little
worry.
All things considered, various dele
gates privately express the opinion,
that IL they get away from Washing
ton before the latter part Of January.
they will consider themselves lucky.