Arizona republican., 1921-12-21

(COntinued rom page oHe) the delegates to the conference in construing the four power agree ment.
 "The president announced tonight that the difference in view in no wise would be permitted to embarrass the conference or the ratification of the agreement He had assumed all along that the spirit of the confer ence contemplates a confidence which pledges respect of territory in every way which tends to promote lasting peace.
 He has learned from the United States delegates that they have agreed to the construction which in cludes the homeland of Japan in the term insuiar possessions and insular dominions,' and has no objection to that construction"
 The language of the treaty thus
 brought into question has also been the subject of senate discussion and in response to inquiries based on the assertions of the opponents of rati- | fication, spokesmen for the Amer ican delegation have said repeatedly that the major Japanese group must l be regarded as included within the l agreement.
 Personal Opinion l When he set forth an opposite view | today, MT. HardinT was said by or | ficials to have acted without con | sultation with his state department | advisers and without any definite
 purpose of announcing the attitude of the administration. It was dec | Jared he merely was voicing per l had m thought O1 | precipitating a clash in conference | circles.
 The effect on the delegates. how ever was immediately apparent | None would comment, but among the | American, British, French and Jap
 anese there was evident desire to | have the attitude of the American | government clarified at once. The | American delegation held a meeting 1 and as Senators Lodge and Under wood were hastening to the white house. a British spokesman was | telling newspaper men that view opposite of that of the president had
 been communicated to the other pow
 CTS by the American plenipotentiaries during the negotiations. Baron Kato, of Japan, was one oi | those who showed great interest in | the President attitude. A pledge of | secrecy, he said, prevented him from | divulging whether there had been an l agreement as to application of the treaty to the principal Japanese | islands. and he added that "the meaning adopted at the signing might | be changed in the future, so l car say nothing at this time" l In British quarters it was said l that the British and Americans who | took the lead in framing the treaty so as to apply to all the Japanese 1 group, and that the Japanese for a time opposed the arrangement. Definition of the geographical scope of the treaty is included ir
 article one of the agreement and
 follows:
 ''The high contra cting powers agree
 as between themselves to respect
 their rights in relation to their in-
 sular possessions and insular dom-
 inions in the region of the Pacific
 ocean,
 As interpreted by Mir. Harding in his conference with the correspond
 ents, this language would not apply
 to the mainland or so-called "mair
 land islands" of any of the contract l ing powers He was said to fec | Japan proper would no more be in-
 cluded among the Pacific islands | for purposes of the treaty. thar
 would the mainland of the United 1 States.