The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-03
ARMS MEET BIG step
|TOWARD PEACE ON EARTH
LIMITATION OF NAV1ES
AND PACIFIC AGREEMENT
ROOM TO ENTIRE WORLD.
OF WAR ARE REMOVED
Washington Conference VIII Prooa'
bIv Complete Work Early in jan
49,, Rut Other Gatherings OF the
Nations Will Follow.

hIv Complete Wor k Early III jan
uarv But Other Gatherings OF tne
Nations Will Follow.
chr;e+nas this year found the cen
.,r;es-old spirit OF the season. peace
- earth and goodwill to men, long
ton nearer realization as the result Vi
4be accomplishments OF the conference
.to limitation of armament and the
orohlems of the Far East meeting IN
Washington for the last eight weeks
:. 4be call of President Harding. Inc
,,orL NJ the conference has not yet
toan completed, nor will it be until
we'll into January, but the progress
.,roodv made is described in the CAPT
4.1s If the worlds big nations as the
~reatest of any gathering Of its charac-
fer in history.
~ The conference was called to order
~ Saturday, Nov II, the day after inc
M burial OF the unknown
american soldier in the national ceile-
tary AT Arlington, Va. In the elgh'
Ivao<s during which it has been III SEES.
.;on # has accomplished these thihgs'
List of Accomplishments.
The four great powers-the United
c.l ~ Ianan@ Great Britain and France
'' %ave signed a treaty, to run ten
lie and then be subject to renewal
3esigned to preserve peace in the "a
u;6c ocean by recognition OF the ter
r 1;tor;aI rights of each nation.
TiI IT, ,ra 6owers-the United States,
Great Britain and Japan-have agreed
W W ten-vear naval building holiday;
Tbese three nations also have agreed
80 sCran 68 batt1eships, many OF them
t,o,, in course of construction, ana 10
limit their capital ship tonnage tor the
o,,t ten wears to $4,000 in the case
~ The Tinted States and Great Britain
ond 315 600 in the case Of Japan. MS
= The "6ve-hve-three" ratio, proposed
b, Secretary of State Hughes on the
ooening day OF the conference
Anglo-Jap Alliance Strapped
The three major nations have agreed
+ba+ the status quo, or present sltua-
t;on shall obtain with respect to tortl-
Gcat;ons and naval bases in the racine
ncesn go far as insular possessions are
'Oi The Anglo Japanese alliance, the
1 hane Of America, has been renounced
NV the British and Japanese govern
ments. and is succeeded by the new
4 TURNOVER agreement regarding the
Pacific. IT. ;e1ord
NJ Van in the Pacific, has been endeq
Il Inv an agreement between the Onltea
States and Japan, whereby Japan holds
lis mandate to the island, but gives tfie
United States cable and radio PRIV
leges.
China Regaining Its Own.
Nomcntous decisions have been
reached regarding the future relation
shin of the powerful nations OF the
world with China, whereby China re-
gains much of the territorial integrity
and administrative rights it has been
sacrificing since the boxer uprising
late in the last century, gave European
nations the opportunity to make tern
torial and financial raids on the Cnl-
nese government. Furthermore, Japan
q and China. meeting around the confer
ence board in Washington, have gone
farther toward settling the many oil
ierences between them than they nave
in 20 years OF long range negotiations
between the governments OF Tokyo
and Picking. The Chinese agreement,
when finally reached, will take the
form of nine-power treaty and De
signed by the United States, Great
Britain, Japan, France, Italy, Belgium
8 The Netherlands, Portugal and CHINA
All this has been accomplished Ill
seven weeks, and it now appears tnat
another month should clean up all the
work at Washington. Yet when the
conference convened it was freely pre-,
dicted that a general agreement couId
not hope to be reached before spring;
The French leaders, Premier BRAND
and NJ. Vivian, already have return
ed to Paris, and the British leaders
hope to sail for London at an early
date
The Chinese Problem.
The representatives of Japan and
China meanwhile are continuing their
discussions of the problems which IN,
terest these two nations, and rapid
progress has been reported The Shan
tung question is very near solution
and the so-called "21 demands" made
i by Japan on the Picking government
4 are also yielding to frank discussion
4 OF the points involved. SO lar as these
particular Far East problems are IN
voved there seems TO be little now
standing in the way of an ultimate
agreement. The problems involving
Siberia, Korea and Manchurla are
awaiting the general declaration OF pol
icy now being prepared by the apaSn-
n csc government, and this, it IS be-
feved, will clear up these questions
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
1t now seems to be settled definitely
that the conference before adjourn
ment will agree to meet again next
year. Two outstanding reasons are CIV
en- Tor the desire for another meeting
next year and, indeed, for annual meet
ings Of the conference.