The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-02-08
NO. g
FAREWELL TALKS AT
ARMS MEETING
Address BY President Harding
and Final Adjournment
Monday.

Washington, Feb. 4.-The arms
conference made the last ectry on
its record of achievements today
and prepared 70. sine de adjourn
ment Monday.
At a fOur-hOur plenary~ session
two more treaties and half a dozen
supplemental resolutions were pass
ed through the fEal stage of confer
ence approval and then the delegates
exchanged farewell! cour5esies in a
series Of speeches expressing univer-
sal satisfaction over the results of
the history-making twelve weeks of
negotiations Just ended.
Mondays session will be devoted
entirely to formal sigma ture of the
conference treaties and to an ad-
dress by President Harding. voicing
his appraisemeut Of the work ac-
compltshed by the conference he
called into being. Most OF the
treigu delegates plan to leave wash
instoR oa MsRaay -er Tuesday. ---'-
The two treaties accepted formal
ly at today's session both relate to
China, one providing for a revision of
Chinese customs system and the
other embOiyiug E,ihU Root, -FOUR
points" and the amplifed open door.
Some OF the separate resolutions put
on the record deal with collateral
Ch!uee questions, but Included in
the lot was It supplement- to the
four-pC"er Pacific treaty excluding
from the scope Of the agreement the
principal islands ct the japanese
empire.
Japs and Chinese sign
! few hours after Tie u.c-svy
session adjourned the .Japl-e-- and
Chinese met and affixed their s.Ena-
tures To che treaty by which Slan-
tung IS to lie returned to Chinese con-
position in the conference program
ShantUug question occupied q key
position in the conference rrgram
tire negotiations BY which ic was sel-
tied proceeded outside t.e Cocser-
euce proper and only the two Or ell
tai powers were made parties to tie
resulting treaty.
Every delegation had q vo.ca &,
the final session of oratcry tina; reily
brought the work oi.th4 ca5ererc- %
a close today, and every spoke7a.an
predicted ttaC the negotiations Of
Washington would uu.k i.r-c &. .ae
history OF the world. Secra..ry
Hughes for che United States ald
Arthur J. Ba!four for Great Britain
hailed the conference accomr.tsh-
meHts is usherins in rev srs' Of
international understandings a.G II,
bert Sarraut for Fame. eu..-.-ed
the record Of achievement o. cal-
stituting the "loftiest vr=c-d f
mankind" Similar eyp-.s..5ns
came from all the otaeg aa..caaI
groups.
Genoa Conference Mentioned
Embodied in Italy's last message
to the conference, voiced by senator
was q reference g. the
coming economic conference - be
held at Genoa, coupled wi,h au ex-
preston of hope that tae Ugited
States would not now withdraw
from the councils OF the powers.
The economic situation must come
more and more to the front as the
world attempts to scale down arma-
ments and return to the ways Of
peace.
The utterances of the statesmen
of the powers during the ina! per-
iod Of oratory were delivered.
strangely enough. to a hall almost
empty of spectators. The p.erary
session had Tapped far over the
lunch hour before il had completed
me tedious formalties of approving
treaties and resolutions already
made public and what had original
" been a crowd of many hundreds
iwindled gradually away until the
had many entire rows Of
seats without a single occupant.
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