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'SHANTUNC ISSUE
.SETTLEDINPARLEY
Two P'en2ry Sessions to Be
Held To-Day,
DIFFERENCE NEAR END
viii Announce Naval Treaty Today
and May Ratify Dozen or More
Resolutions Relating to China.

Washington, FEB. l.-Nirtual settle
ment by The Japanese and Chinese OF
the lUng-debated Shantung question
and final agreement on that text of the
iye-pOWCr naval limitation treaty had
brought the arms conference very near
of the delegates expecting TO be on
their homeward journeys possibly By
lhe end of the week.
Prediction the last details of the
plan for restoration to China of Shan
tung province would he settled was
made by DR.. koo. of the Chinese dele
CATION, following an agreement be-
tween the Japanese and Chinese GOV
erng all principles required as b;s
sis for disposal of the TSfnStao-Tsin-
lnfu railroad question. II e basis Of
settlement is understood Ia have been
he compromise plan supported By
President Harding.
Administration officials would nor
comment upon the part Mr.. Harding
himself had taken in the final stages
If the negotiation. 1t was Indicated
.Ir. Harding would not issue formal
statement Oh the subject AT the pres
INT time. but might leave any definite
expression to members of the Ameri-
AN delegation, who also had been
working To bring the Japanese and
he Chinese together.
Meantime the naval committee OF
u.bnln NVos Dlnatinr~ n p;Vp final
lpBroval to the text of The naval
reaty a~ completed by agreement i'll
the naval committee of fifteen on tie
Pacific Notifications article. The
treaty today will be announced To the
world ut the plenary session.
The Far Eastern committee III tine
same time had been called in session
% clean up the collateral issues now
remaining in that field. which, with
Shantung out of the Way. Wa$ expect
ID to take bu- Il few days. 1t was the
expectation Of conference officials an
,ther plenary session would be called
his afternoon, following thar for the
naval announcement, To permit for
nal ratification of the dozen or more
resolutions relating to China, which
nave now received committee approval
)nly.
The Notifications article, which has
been holding up completion of the ma
val pact for several weeks, WIS set
led by an agreement under which the
Qualifications "StatuS quo" now in the
Pacific is to include the American Ale
ltian Islands, a part of Alaska, as
Japan.
The Aleutian group was said in
American naval circles to have little
strategic value in any of the naval
plans of the general BOARD The Jap
anese, on the other hand, are under
stood to have taken the position the
archipelago stretching out from the
Alaskan mainland toward Siberia,
might become a potential factor in the
Far Eastern situation if it became the
site of an American naval base.
AS finally agreed to, the text of the
Notifications article contains authori-
cation for such repair and replacement
as may be necessary to keep establish
ments now existing within the status
quo" area up to their present standard
Of efficiency. This stipulation win
permit the small marine base in opera
ton on Guam TO rem1in, along with
the Notifications that have been i'll
stalled in the past by Japan on For
mosa. 1t is declared by conference
spokesman the language of the pr0vis-
ion IS broad enough to permit bona
fide commercial development of tile
status quo area, even though the
commercial establishment installed
might be capable of conversion for war
uses in case { hOstilities.