The Washington herald., 1922-02-01
NAVAL TREATY
TO Be READY
BY TOMORROW
Plenary Session of Arms
Conference to Pass on
Three Agreements.

All naval matters included in the
discussion that has been in prog
ress before the naval armament
conference since November 12, will
be wound up tomorrow.
The general naval treaty will be
formally reported and approved at
a plenary session OF the confsfeHce
today. At the same time two addi-
tional hve-power treaties, the f4rst
dealing with submarines which arc
not to be limited because Of the in
sistence OF the French. and the sec
.ond prohibiting the use Of poison
gas in all future warfare, will be
adopted.
The three treaties to be adopted
will have the formal approval Of
the United States, Great Britain,
Japan. France and Italy. Their
principles will be approved by the
representatives Of the other four
powers represented here although
they do not become formal sigma
tories to the agreement.
The treaties covering China still
are in the making. There VIII be
two of these. They are being
whipped into shape by the drafting
committee but whether they can be
submitted to a public session dur
Ing the present week was not GER
tain last night.
Conference officials are very we'll
satisfied with the result to date
The Japanese and Chinese delegates
were in session until a late hour
working out the details of the
Shantung agreement.
Hughes May Repert.
1t is expected that when the
plenary session opens Chairman
Hughes will make a complete re-
port of the status of the entire pro-
ceedings. This will cover the ma
val treaty, the submarine and poison
gas subjects, and all Far Eastern
matters upon which there~has been
an agreement. 1t will be the first
plenary session since December 10.
All OF the delegates are very
anxious to get home and they work
eXpeditiously on all of the matters
remaining unsettled. The naval
committee made up of the repre-
sentatives of the five interested
powers met and received the COM
pleted draft of the naval and sub
sidiary treaties from the committee
Of fifteen. There was a very de-
cided passage of arms between Am
bassador Jusserand, representing
the French. and Lord Lee Of Fare
ham, Of the British delegation, on
the submarine question. Lord Lee
again repeated his structures on the
French attitude on submarines and
denounced them as a weapon that
was utterly valueless either for de-
fensive or offensive. warfare. He
recalled the defense of the subma-
rine by Capt. Castex Of the French
navy, Ain which the latter publicly
declared that the submarine was
the only weapon which will bring
Great Britain and the British navy
to her knees. This proved. In the
opinion of the first lord OF the Brit
ish admiralty. that the only reason
why the French were insisting on
the right to retain the submarine
as a part of their navy was because
II later might be useful against the
British
Jusserand's View Opposite.
Ambassador Jusserand t,ok sharp
issue with Lord Lee. He insisted
that he was placing a false con-
struction upon the statement Of
Capt. Castex and pointed out that
SO far as the French are concerned
they never have entertained any
thing but the most friendly feel
ings toward the British. He also
pointed out that while France has
insisted that she be allowed to re-
tain the right to construct. subma-
rines up to the limit originally sug-
gested by Chairmah Hughes as
proper for the United States and
Great Britain she had no intention
Of building any that have not al-
ready been. authorized.
There was a general discussion
of the subject. but il finally was
laid aside when the suggestion was
made that there would be oppor-