The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-06
ARMS PARLEy
CLOSES WORK
ON TREATIES
Harding Delivers Farewell
Address as Delegates Ad-
journ After Signing Treaties
and Adopting Resolutions.
FUTURE TO Be JUDGE
tBy Associated Pressl

hlstory-maklng conference on
the limitation of armaments and
far eastern questions ended to-
day with the signing of treaties
and farewell address by Presi-
dent Harding. The sine die ad-
journment was taken at 11:13
a. m.
With its work characterized
by Mr., Harding as ''the first de
liberate and effective expression
of great powers in the conscious
ness of peace, of wars utter fu-
tility," the great conference
went to its niche in history to
await the judgments and devel-
opments Of the future.
In the great assembly hall Of the
| Daughters of the American Revolu-
| tion where all its open sessions have
! been held, the delegates of the nine
nations assembled marched in turn to
a space ar the great green baize table
! and affixed their signatures to the
| treaties and agreements, which are all
parts Of the structure built to lift from
a warworn world the burden of cx-
! cessiye naval armament; to promote
the peace of the Pacific; to give a
new bill of rights TO China. and 10
remove from the far east particularly
the clouds of war.
/ Applause Greets Conclusion
| And as each delegation affixed sig
natures, as plenipotentiaries pledged
! the honor of their respective nations
. n the nf he
t agreed upon, the great assembly ex-
/ pressed the hopes of the world in its
loud and prolonged applause
At the conclusion of the ceremony
of signing, President Harding delir-
cred his address formally closing the
conference.
/ Results of Work
Six completed treaties. two others
|, agreed to in substance. fourteen reso-
lutions and ten separate or joint dec
larations of national policy comprise
the formal and tangible contribution
of the arms conference negotiations
= to history
BY the major agreements of the con
I ference the great powers put limit
on their naval strength in capital
ships, abjure submarine warfare
against commerce and use of poison
i based on territorial integrity and the
open door, and set up new interna-
? tional concord to preserve peace in
the Pacific. In addition, Great Britain
declares her intention TO restore Wei
Hai-Wei to China, and Japan hands
, back Shantung and promises to with
, draw from Siberia as soon as condi-
tions there are stabilized.
Six Treaties
These are the six treaties which,
| during the twelve weeks of negotia.
tions here have been brought to final
completion:
l. Naval limitation treaty. by which
the United States. Great Britain. jap
an, France and Italy agree to scrap
or convert 6S capital ships, and so
limit future construction that, after
ten year building holiday, their first
r line naval strength will remain at
1 525 900 tons, $4,000 tons, 315,0 900 tons,
2 175.000 tons, and 175,000 tons, respect
lively. The respective tonnage of air
plane carriers is limited to $4,000
/ tons each for the United States and
t Great Britain, 81 900 tons for Japan
2 and 10000 tons each for France and
5 Italy. Individual capital ships are to
: be no larger than 5000 tons and car
ry no guns in excess of 16 inches Air
craft carriers are limited similarly to
= $1,000 tons, and auxiliary craft to
e 10000 tons
Neither can carry gun larger than
eight inches. A Notifications status
quo" is set up in the Pacific. under
|, which the United States agrees not to
!, further fortify the Philippines and
{, Guam, and Japan agrees to observe
e the same restrictions in Forocoa the
e Renins and the Pescadores.
J. Submarine Treaty.
2. The submarine and poison gas
L treaty, TO which the five powers are
+ signatories. BY it's terms the powers
agree as among themselves not to use
I submarines as commerce destroyers"
u in all cases to observe the rules of
visit and search. and TO regard as q
/, pirate any submarine commander who
violates existing law. AS among
themselves, they outlaw the use of
poison gas altogether.
8. The four power Pacific treatv
by which the United States. Great
\ Britain Japan and France agree 10
\ respect one anothers rights in rela-
tion to their insular possessions in tha
Pacific. and to meet in consultation
whenever those rights are threatened.
al The AngIo-Japanese alliance IS auto
ID matically abrogated when the new
oI treaty is ratified.
a. Far Easternn Treaty.
he 4. The general far eastern treat
d. between the United States, Great
O. Britain. japan France, Italy, China
o, Belgium, Portugal and the Neither
ID lands, binding each of them to respect
/ China's integrity, the open door policy
I'd to be applied in detail. and every
ly opportunity is to be given the Chimes
rn people to develop stable government
= 1t is agreed that no treaty infringing
e. these principles is to be considered
that no contracts violating them ar.
10 10 be upheld, that discriminatory prac-
tices in the Chinese railways is to
le end. and that China's rights as neu-
az trail country are to be respected in
y y future wars
ne 5. The Chinest treaty, adhered to
en- by the same nine nations providing
of