The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-03
SETTLEMENT OF JAPANESE
QUESTION LEAVES NOTHING
MORE FOR CONFERENCE TO DO
Japan Al Last Moment
Comedies Part of the
Twenty-one Demands,
Thus Giving China
Complete Sovereignty
Over Her Own Do
main


Washington, Feb. 3.-The big
nine" of the arms conference, meet
ing today for the last time. whipped
into shape the treaties relating to
China and issued a formal call for a
plenary session tomorrow to mark the
final windup of the Washington me-
gotiations.
1t was decided to base only two
treaties on the Chinese decisions of
the conference.
The nine delegation heads also dis
cussed whether the formal signing of
the naval and far eastern treaties of
Monday shall be in public or private.
Plans had been made today for the
Papanese and Chinese to sign their
treaty on Shantung, but it was decid-
ed to postpone that also until Mon
day. The only remaining formal
/ meetings of the day were a wind-up
session of the armaments committee
and a similar session OF the far east
ern committee called for late after
noon.
Washington. Feb. 3.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. China's reply to the
Japanese declarations of readiness to
give up entirely the group five of the
celebrated "twenty-one demands as
well as economic privileges secured
Under resulting treaties in Manchuria
and Mongolia was expected to bring to
an end today the arms conference far
eastern negotiations. 1t was planned
a SO to put into treaty form today the
series of resolutions relating to China
fer formal adoption with plenary ses-
SION tomorrow at the cost Of which it
was expected the Washington confer
ence would adjourn sine die. The
S,gnaturs of the plenipotentiaries un-
der the program would be attached to
boh tho naval and far eastern trea-
ties Monday. at single ceremony
It the state department.
Although in announcing before the
f?r east rn committee yesterday the
intention f their government to give
up entirely group five of the de
m2nds. the japanese pledged aban-
donment of that part of the de
mands' program to which China most
strongly Cbj cted as calculated to i'm
/, rair her sovereignty, the Chinese reply
today was expected 20 vaicc renewed
Protest over the whole program. 1t
appeared that the qu stion would be
Z
The Two governments on the confer
; ence record without any attempt to
adopt joint declaration with the pos
sibiliiy to this would he add d for
b nal statement of the American rosl-
tion on the question.
= In addition to the pledge of readi-
; ness to Withdraw the treaty reserva-
tion hy which Japan retained the right
to pr SIS further the unaccepted group
five. which would have required
2mong other things that China en-
ploy Japanese political. financial and
military advisers in her central gov
crnment the japanese yesterday
promised two othsr concessions relat-
ing to the demand treaties. Under
Cne of these she would open up South
Manchuria and eastern Inner Man
gClia to the International consortium
and the other was to renounce all in
tention of insisting that Japanese ad-
visers be employed in these territories
in political. financial or military mat
ters.
Prior to Ambassador Shidehara's
satment of the Japan Sc position ON
the II I'd mands,' the far eastern
committee had disposed Of the Chinese
Eastern railway situation by adopt
ing resolution m rely declaring that
arrangements for better protection
of the road should be worked out in
the near future through the regular
department channels Hope of work.
ing out a real adjustm nj Of the situa-
tion was abandoned because OF
Chinas objection to n proposal agreed
to bv all the other powers, to sub
stitute for the present inter-allied
commission now in control of the road
a finance COMMITTEE to exercise gem
eral financial control and to have
under its authority new police or
gendarmerie force.