The Washington herald., 1921-12-06
CHINESE RESENT
ENJOYS FAILURE
TO HASTEN ACTION
France and Italy Want
Early Decision on
Naval Ratio.
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delegation exactly what France
needs, in his opinion. II is under
stood that the French claim-which |
Italy will duplicates that they
ought to be assigned 100000 tons
of capital ships and $1,000 tons of
SUBMARINES.
Likely to Meet Opposition.
Should these figures be accurate,
it Is likely that there will be a
refusal Oh the part o. the United
states and British delegates TO
agree to them. At the end OF the
proposed ten-year naval holiday.
under the Hughes proposals, the
allotment of capital ships would be.
for the United States and Great
Britain 100000. and for Japan 3O0.-
900. In addition there is the sug-
gested auxiliary naval strength of
100000 tons for Great Britain and
the United States. and 270.000 tons
for Japan.
The French. it has been under
stood. desire to replace certain OF
the units in their navy with fast
cruisers. and they also are Arm in
their submarine demands. If the
| "feelers" were to hold. the Franco
Italian submarine allotment would
be within $4,000 OF that proposed
for Great Britain and the United
States, which Is 10000 tons. anG
would exceed that of Japan. which
is placed at $4,000 tons.
The French delegation has on
several occasions denied that they
had any desire TO be given naval
ratio as great as that of Japan.
and the general opinion of the
American naval experts has been
| that the fnal ratio of the five pow
ers should be 5-5-3-2-2. 1t is
hoped by the French that the con-
ference will take up their problem
very soon. Both Chairman Viviani
| and Admiral De Bon want to sail
| for home on December IA, leaving
| NJ. Albert Sarraut in charge. but II
there is a controversy over the ma
val ratio, they may be held up
until later.
| Spokesman for the American del
egation took occas sion again last
evening to point out that the pres
ent delay should not be miscon-
strued. 1t was explained that the
conference has made crater prog
ress TO date than any previous In
ternational gathering. In fact the
one outstanding danger. they eN-
plain. is that there should be too
great speed. Snap judgment on any
point now under consideration
would make real trouble later on.
ENJOYS to Visit Congress
Senator Oscar W. Underwood. one
OF the members of the American
delegation. has been called to Ala
bama because Of the death of his
mother. This will delay the reach
4 ing Of any settlement on the
Chinese tariff question before the
end of this week
The various reports compiled by
the American advisory committee
of twenty-one remain in the hands
Of the American delegation. 1t -
announced that they cannot I've
made public until after they have
been communicated to the various
committees Of the conference. which
are dealing with the subjects that
are covered by these reports.
Today all Of the delegate. and
officials who are left in Washing
ton are to be guests Of the Con-
Gress at the Joint session when
President Harding will deliver his
annual address on the state of the
nation. This will make possible
still further delay and fill the gap
until the British delegation gets
back here tomorrow.
Early Agreement E,pecteA
Many Of the delegates gbelisse
mat the general agreements of fhe
conference will be compile ted by the
end of the month and that TIA
cleaning up of the minor detals)
Investigations and the like will /be
referred to the bassadors nnd
ministers of the nine powers. who
are residents Of Washington As
an instance Of this il was stated
mat Mi Balfour has engaged pas
sage for England on steamer
sailing from New York the latter
, part of the month.
The American officials and the
administration have up to the pres
ent declined to clear up the mvs-
terry Of whtther the agreements
reached here shall be simply an
nounced to the world as policies or
plans Of conduct, depending for
their effectiveness upon the weight
Of the moral opinion Of the nine ma
hons involved, or whether az least
a part OF the policies should be in
corporatcd into I formal treaty be-
tween the nations most directly in
terested. London adviCes have de-
ciared that tri-partite agreement
! between the United States, Great
frltaln and Japan will replace the
Anglo-Jdpanese treaty. which Japan
VIII voluntarily scrap. Tokyo ad-
wees have limited at a five or six
power agreement which would pro
vide for arbitration and mediation.
Mystery Causes Confusion.
Other plans have been debated in
various capitals but up to the pres
ent there has been no official in
dication of policy from the United
States. Secretary of State Hughes
| VIII not discuss the subject in any
form. President Harding has con-
tented himself with the statement
that he hopes that voluntary as
sociation of nations will develop
and that. possibly. the result of the
/ present conference will be COM
inundated to al other nations with
suggestion tina, they approve.
! The jn"~itahl, rasuIt .- 20 general
/ confusion in III minds Of many of
ficials herr. THIS especially IS 50
= Congress, which e.t l4.I. ~ the
, job yesterday There are matter
. 'hgs e revolt tier. got only
against The naval program Tut
! against suggested agreements that
: might Involve the United states II
. IoreiEr IrTansemsEt9 Il is entire
" within the bounds Of possibility
! tnat this feeling maE find express