Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-29
BLIZZARD AND SHANTUNG
T|E-UP BLOCK PARLEY
Delay in Negotiations Does
Not Dim Prevailing Conf
dencc of Settlement.
HOPE ron AN ,sAnl.r DECISION
Postponed Jnpnncsc-Chincsc Meeting
lins Nothing to DO with TsiuEtao-
Tsinnnfu Railroad Issue, officials
Assert.
IBy Associnted rress.l


WASHINGTON. Jan. cS.-The shan
tung ttc-up and the blizzard that
paralyzed traffic and communication
in Washington combined tn again
block the progress OF the arms con-
ference today. but the delay did not
dim prevailing confidence that all the
conference issues soon would be car
ried forward to solution.
SO far as ShantunE was concerned.
IL was wholly day Of waiting for
the mcdiatory effect Of President
Harding TO have it's effect at Picking
and Tokyo. All indications pointed TO
decision early next week and all
the delegates appeared confident that
the decision would be for Il settle
ment along the lines OF the con..-ro
mise supported by the President.
Hoth Meetings Cancelled.
hoth or the meetings planned for
today by subdivisions OF the confer
'hce wer" Cancelled becaus. or tn.
storm. one of these meetings was
10 nave brought the Japanese and
chinese delegates together to b,pir
grating Shantung treaty and IN,
a. a.
subcommittee considering the Chinese
Eastern Railway
The postponed Japanese Chinese
meeting. II was explained. had n,,b
ing to do with the Tsingtao- Tsinaniu
Railroad issue over which the shan
Jung negotiations are deadlocLca
nut merely was to have M, into
treaty language the agreements al.
ready reached on collateral subjects
III was said this work could he de.
iaEed until Monday without DELAYING
the final wind-up OF the negotiations
s:ncc experts of both rroups were
busy on their own account, rc,,irc
the treaty text into shane.
Chinese Object 10 rIau.
In tho Chinese Eastern Ralluav
discussions. which are par; Of the
far Eastern committee negotiations
differences Of view nave dcvclopcJ
winch in any case seem likely TO de-
lay decision for several days >ybile
the various powers fully dctcrmin.
their respective attitudes. The chi.
hese have objected To the plan for
international financing for the road
worried out by group OF experts.
ana also TO the proposal for policing
'hc !lhe with Japanese guards
IL was said tonight that the Chi
n"se Eastern problem might become
one OF the most difficult of the lcss.,
issues u! tho conference. because of
The situation OF the road. partly i'm
siberian ana partly in Chinese terri
tory The present system Of admin
istraton hX. an intcrallicd board
seems certain 10 lie pcrpetuatcd. hut
the financing and policing proposals
are Tar from settlement.
1t became Increasingly apparent to-
day that the big question In the
Shan'unG controversy was what de-
gree OF control is To be retained by
Japan over the Tsingtao- Tsinanf,,
railroad during the period while
CHINA is paying for IL. with that
out Of tho way. /, Is conceded. set
Element OF all the other details viii
he easy. The japanese seem dis
posed t" insist that a japanese Of
hci"l with real authority be retained
~ both tho traHc and auditing de-
partments. but Chimes. delegates are
uncertain whether their goycrrrncn,
VIII consent 80 such proposal.