The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-10
COMPLETE TREATIES
NUMBER HALF DOZEN
Two Others Agreed to In Substance
Fourteen Resolutions and Ten
Declarations of Policy

substance, IA resolutions and ten
separate or joint declarations of ma
tional policy comprise the formal and
tangible contributions Of the arms
conference negotiations to history.
By the major agreements of the
conference the great powers put a
limit on their naval strength in cap
tai ships, abjure submarine warfare
against commerce and use of poison
gas, give China a new bill of rights
! based on territorial integrity and the
open door and set up a new interna-
tional concord to preserve peace in
the Pacific. In addition Great Bri-
tain declares her intention to restore
Wei-Hai-Wei to China, and Japan
hands back Shantung and promises
to withdraw from Siberia as soon as
conditions there are stabilized.
These are the six treaties which,
during the IL weeks of negotiations
here, have been brought to final CON-
pletion:
/. The naval limitation treaty, by
which the United States, Great Brit
ain, Japan, France and Italy agree
to scrap or convert 6S capital ships
and so limit future construction that,
after ten year building holiday, their
first line naval strength will remain
at $4,000 tons, $4,000 tons, $4,000
tons, 175,000 tons and 175,000 tons,
respectively. The respective tonnage
of airplane carriers is limiter to 1885,
900 tons each for the United States
and Great Britain, 81, 900 tons for ia
pan and $4,000 tons each for France
and Italy. Individual capital ships
are to be no larger than $4,000 tons
and carry no guns in excess of 16
inches. Aircraft carriers are limited
similarly to $4,000 tons and auxiliary
craft to 10000 tons, and neither can
carry gun larger than eight inches.
A fortifcations 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 the same restric-
ton in Formcsa, the Bonins and the
Pescadores.
Submarine and Poison Gas
2. The submarine and poison gas
treaty, to which the same five powers
are s;gratories. By its terms the
powers agree as among themselves
not to use submarines "as commerce
destroyers," in all cases to observe
the rules of visit and search, and to
regard as pirate any submarine
commander who violates the existing
law. As among themselves they out
la wuse of poison gas altogether.
8. The four power Pacific treaty.
by which the United States, Great
Britain, Japan and France agree to
respect one another's rights in rela-
ton to their insular possessions in
the Pacific and to meet in consulta-
ton whenever those rights are threa-
tened. The Anglo-Japanese alliance
is automatically abrogated when the
new treaty. finally is ratified.
4 The general Far East treaty
between the United States, Great
Britain, Japan, France, Italy, China:
Belgium, Portugal and the Neither
lands, binding each Of them to re-
spect China's integrity; the open door
policy is to be applied in detail, and
every opportunity is to be gwen the
Chinese people to develop a stable
government. 1t is agreed that no
treaty infringing these principles is
to be concluded, that 20 contracts W.
olating them are to be upheld, that
discriminatory practices in the Chi
nese railways is to end, and that
China's rights as neutral ARE to be
respected in future wars.
5. The Chinese tariff treaty. adher-
ed to by the same nine na-ions, pro-
viding international machinery Tor
an immediate revision of Chinese Gus
toms duties on basis of 5 per cent
effective and periodical revlsions
thereafter, together with changes
which will permit imposition of sur
taxes.
6. The Shantung treaty between
Japan and China, by which Shantung
is restored to Chinese control.
By one of the uncompleted treaties
agreed to in substance during the
conference, Japan gives the United
States the long sought cable and wire
less privileges on the island of Yap'
and by the other the five principal
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