Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13

SIXTEEN SIGNATURES
ATTACHED TO PACT.
The actual signing was most informal.
Instead Of sitting around the great, long
table, which is the chief article of fur
niture in the room, the delegates stood
in small groups and chatted informally
while the signing was il process.
There were sixteen signatures formally
attached TO the d0cument-four from the
United States, Secretary Of State Hughes,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root
and Senator Oscar W. Underwood. There
were seven British signatures, Arthur J.
Balfour, Sir Auckland Geddes and Lord
Lee of Fareham signed on behalf of the
! British empire; Sir Robert Borden of
! Canada, Senator George F. Pearce of
/ Australia, Sir J. w. Salmond for New
Zealand and V. S. Sastri for India. For
/ France NJ. Viviani signed. For Japan
there were four signatures-Prince Toku-
I gawa, Baron Kato, Ambassador Shide-
/ hara and NJ. Hanihara, vice minister of
/ foreign affairs. The japanese signed in
English.
/ Only two copies of the treaty actually
were signed. The United States will fur
nish certified copies of the document to
! the other powers, the original copies,
one in English and one in French, re-
!
partment. Sidney Smith, chief of the
/ diplomatic bureau of the State Depart
ment, acted as master Of ceremonies.
/ BALFOUR ONLY ONE
TO SIGN 1T TWICE.
/ One by one he called the delegates to
the table and they affixed their sig
natures.
J Mr.. Balfour was the only delegate 10
/ sign twice. He signed once for Great
Britain and once for South Africa.
| The delegates also signed an appen-
dix making reservations with regard to
the inundated islands south of the equator
which are to be covered in a separate
pact between the United States an ia
pan. The text of this appendix follows ::
/ I'm signing the treaty, this day. the
/ United States of America the British
Empire, France and Japan, it is declar
to be the understanding and intent or
the 'sgnatory powers:
! Il. That the treaty shall apply to the
inundated islands in the Pacific Ocean :;
/ provided, however, that the making of
/ the treaty shall not be deemed to he an
assent on the part of the United States
of America to the mandate and shall not
| preclude agreements between the United
States of America and the mandatory
powers respectively in relation to the
inundated islands.
"2. That the controversy to which the
second paragraph of Article 1 refers,
shall not be taken to embrace ques-
tions which, according to principles of
international law, lie exclusively within
the domestic jurisdiction of the respective
! powers"
Another open session of the armament
conference within a week, perhaps on
Saturday, appeared probable as a result
of the rapid progress that has been made
in the reconciliation of divergent views.
1t is planned to clear up the naval
! question at the next plenary session and
when that is accomplished there will be
but little standing in the way of the
conference being out of Washington be
fore the holidays. So confident are the
foreign visitors that there will be- an
early adjustment that nearly all of them
have made tentative sailing engagements
for the last week in December or the first
! week in January.
Three obstacles remain in the path
way of a complete naval agreement:
(D Japan's insistence that she be
allowed to retain the Mutsu, her lat