The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-04
VALEDICTORY WILL
BE DELIVERED BY
PRESIDENT HARDING
Treaties Will Be Signed and
Sealed at Final Session of
the Conference.
WORK ON BATTLESHIPS
is TO BE SUSPENDED
Actual Scrapping of Vessels Win
Not Begin Until Treaty
Signed by All Powers.
(5y The Associated Press)


(5y The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.--Except for
the formalities and frills that are to
attend its adjournment, the Washing
ton conference on limitation OF arm
ament and far eastern questions is
over.
At n plenary session tomorrow, the
remaining treaties and resolutions are
to be formally. approved. and the chief
delegates are TO say goodbye to one
another in speeches expressing the
qualification of their governments over
the conference accomplishments.
on Monday, at another public meet
ing. the treaties will be signed and
scaled. and President Harding will de-
liver the conference valedictory in a
brief address.
Already the administration, looking
upon the conference agreements as
accomplished facts, is moving to sus-
pend work on the thirteen battleships
and battle cruisers now under con-
struction but destined for the scrap
heap under the naval treaty. The
president does not plan to actually be-
gin the scrapping process until the
treaty has been ratified by all the
powers. but he has asked the navy de-
partment for information on which an
order suspending construction soon is
to be issued.
In their final round up OF the far
eastern situation. the conference lead
ers decided today to put their. con-
clusions into two far eastern treaties
and a number Of supplementary .reso-
lutionS. One of the treaties will deal
with revision of the Chinese tariff and
the other will embody the Root "four
points and tho open door" policy
Both win have as signatories all nine
of the powers represented here. Ac-
tual negotiations on the far eastern
problems came to an end today with
statements delivered in the far east
ern committee setting forth the post
tion OF the American and Chinese gov
ernments toward the "twenty-one
points" Speaking for China. DIR. Wang
said his government viewed with sat-
isfaction Japan's announcement yes
terday that group five and some other
clauses OF the demands" would be
withdrawn, but reserved her right to-
protest the parts remaining. Secre-
tary Hughes asserted that the Ameri-
can government still stood on its
rights in the matter. as it had asserted
them when the Demands were laid
down by Japan in 1915. and there the
discussion ended without action.
The only treaties 20 be formally Civ
en- conference approval at tomorrow's
plenary session are the two relating
20 China, but at the same time there
viii be a final ratification of the sup
Elementary resolutions that have been
adopted in the far eastern committee
and probably an exchange OF notes to
definitely exclude the Japanese home
land from the scope of tho four-power
Pacific treaty signed December 13. The
session will begin at 10:30 a. m. a
half hour earlier than the customary
meeting time OF the conference and it's
committees. in anticipation Of several
hours of farewell oratory.-
On Monday. the delegates viii sign
the naval treaty, the submarine and
poison gas treaty. the two treaties ra-
lating to China and the supplementary
notes to be attached to the four-power
Pacific treaty. The agreement re-
garding zap TO which the United
States and japan alone are parties.
and the six-power settlement allocat-
ing the former German cables in the
Pacific are not yet in treaty form, but
they are considered as having only
incidental connection with the con-
ference and will not delay the depar-
ture OF ths delegates for home. IL is
expected they viii be pressed TO con-
ciusion in the near future through the
regular diplomatic channels.
It Is also possible that the treaty
between Japan and China, embodying
the Shantung settlement. may be
signed at the conference table at Mon
days. meeting. This question. like that
of Zap and the Pacific cables, Is class
flied by the delegates as standing out
side the conference itself. but the two
interested delegations have signified
that they might desire 10 bring their
negotiations formally 70 an end in the
presence Of all the powers and thus
before all the world.
Tomorrow's plenary session which
really win wind up the work after ex-
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