Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-02-10
Settlement Of Shantung Contro-
versy Announced to the
Arms Conference.
NAVAL TREATY is APPROVED
Agreements or Poison Gas. subma.
rInes and Chinese Questions Also
ndorsed-Senate Passes Foreign
Debt Refunding 5lII-Senator
Kenyon Is Made Federal
Circuit Judge.
By EDWARD W. PlcKARD

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G ECRETARY of State Hughes and
~ Arthur j. Balfour accomplished u
great feat of real diplomacy last week
when they succeeded In persuading
China and Japan TO accept the compro-
mise arrangement by which the long
standing and troublesome Shanlung
controversy Is brought to an end The
settlement was announced on Wednes
day to the fifth plenary session of the
conference, and both the statesmen
voiced their personal rejoicing over 1t
because it was their own plan. Mr.. Bal.
four went further and told something
that aroused the conferees 10 cheers.
He said that Great Britain had decid-
ed to enter at once into negotiations
for the restoration to China of the ter
ritory of -Hai-Wei, which il has
held under lease since the time when
Russia seized Port Arthur. Thus China
Will get back sovereignty over her
most ancient and most thiekly-popu-
lated province In Its entirety.
In all major details the agreement
between Japan and China is as was told
In these columns a week ago. japan
it to get out of Tsingtao and the salt
fields within six months, and is to give
up the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railway with
in nine months.
The one discordant note in Washing.
ton was sounded by Ma 500. represent
alive Of the Canton government He
asserted the Chinese people would not
recognize the treaty agreed upon in the
conference.
Mr.. Hughes presented to the con
ference the completed draft of the
naval limitation treaty with the agree
ment on Pacific Notifications, and it
was formally adopted No material
change in the treaty as already de-
tailed had been made and the Pacific
agreement also stands in the main as
formerly described. According to the
Notifications clause the status quo
must be maintained by America In
the Philippine and Aleutlan Islands;
by Great Britain in Hongkong and the
Pacific islands east OF 10 degrees |
east longitude; by Japan In the Kurile,
BONN and LoOchoo islands, Amaml-
0shlma, FormOsa and the Pescadores.
In presenting the fiye-power naval
pact, Mr.. Hughes said:
This treaty absolutely ends the race
In competition of naval ornaments
At the same time 1t leaves the secur-
ity Of nations unlmpared. Ii is signlf.
icant Of far more also, because here
we are talking Of arms In the language
OF peace and have taken the greatest
forward step to establish the reign Of
peace"
Albert Sarraut, head Of the French
delegation, took the opportunity again
to correct mlsapprehensions concern
Ing his countrys naval policy He
said France had appealed for only
what she must have to defend her
self, and added: 1.-THE camOufiaged
ghost Of lmperialstlc France which
German propaganda parades about the
may still deceive a few art
less minds, but II will soon evoke moth.
Ing but smiles"
Elihu Root presented for approval
the five power treaty outlawlng poison
gas and the use Of the submarine
against merchant shipping. He ex-
planned that 1t does not undertake to
rodify international law In regard to
visit and search, but to state the most
important provisions which already
ire part Of the law Of nations.
1T does undertake." said Mr.. Root,
to stop the violation Of these rules
md the doing to death of women and
,hildreL and other noncombatants by
declaring the wanton destruction Of
merchant vessels carrying passengers
o be violation of the laws of war