The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-13
SHANTUNC MUDDLE
AND NAVAL TREATY.
VIRTUALLY SETTLED.
Delegates Give Up Hope of PIE
nary Session This Week
to Announce Results.
BIG FIVE COMPLETES
IT'S FIRST REVISION
Sends 1t Back to the Legal Ex-
perts for Redraft of the
Changes Made.
leY rhe Assoclated Prssal

WASHINGTON, Jan. l2.--Further
details of both the naval treaty and
the Shantung negotiations were ironed
out today but the arms delegates gave
up hope Of a plenary session this week
to announce definite results.
The Big Five" completed its first
revision OF the naval committee and
sent the text back to it's legal experts
for redraft of the changes made. 1t
will meet again tomorrow and a rir-
tually completed treaty may be ready
for an executive session of the full
naval committee on Saturday or Mon
day.
In the ShantungN conversations fur
ther supplemental agreements were
reached by the Japanese and Chinese,
and a promise of progress on the cen
tral question OF the Tsingtao-Tasi-
nanfu railroad, was held by a series
of compromise proposals sugge sted in
formally by Secretary Hughes and
Arthur J. Balfour.
Word Of the resignation OF Premier
BRAND of France created stir in
conference circles. but the disposition
IN French quarters tonight was to
minimize it's immediate effects on the
Washington negotiations. Albert Sar-
raut, bead of the delegation. an
ngunced he would 60 ahead WITH irssg
conference duties pending Instructions
from the new cabinet and Indicated
his belief that the change Of admins
tration would not vitiate agreements
projected here.
Among American officials in the
conference, however. there was some
apprehension that NJ BRANDS retire
ment might have far reaching effect
on the limitation program.
1t was pointed out that the retiring
premier had been directly responsible
foc Frances withdrawal of her ESQ.,
that the temper OF the succeeding
cabinet on that subject could onlysbe
conJectured.
Included in the few treaty pfovis-
ions not yet finally accepted an the
informal conversations OF tie big
Five" are understood to be yne sec
tions relating to disposition of
scrapped ships and fixing i status
quo for Pacific Qualifications. on
the former, however. the chief dele
gates are said to be in virtual agree
ment, while IN regard to Qualifications
the instructions awaited from Toxic
are generally expected to make an
early settlement possible
Although described by delegation
spckesmen as representing no serious
divergence of views, the discussions
over methods Of scrapping have
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naval experts of the conference. In
their subcommittee report the experts
recommended that permission be given
for conversion of prescribed Narshins
into ether types Of craft, and they
have urged that the provision would
re2resent large financial saving be-
Q cSFsse of the necessity OF construct |
ing new vessels of various classes in
the near future.
Thus, none of the five powers has
at present a modern airplane carrier. /,
and the ratio agreement permits them
to build from two to five each. If
5attleships partially complete but fall |
ing outside the list of retained vessels
eoculd be remodeied into airplane car
rier types, 1t is argued much OF the
money already spent on hulls could
be saved
Opposed to this is the view that TO
discarded batt.eships into am
othe type of war YES Ell would not
be In q. cord with the aninlating pur-
pose Of the washington conference.
This position is understood to have
been taken in the Big Five" meetings !
ny Secretary Hughes. To support it i
the argument was made that as
matte of policy the conference should i
give practical demonstration of its
desire tc reduce armament by speci-
tying that the surplus ships must be
Put out oe business altogether.
reply from Toxic now Is expected /
By the japanese by Sunday and they |
believe the tentative wording worked
out by the Sig Five viii be accept
ed Originally the fortifications
gresment provided that Islands legit-
Inatelly within the homeland" OF the /
United states or Japan should be af- /
fected by the treaty. but that on all
other islands in the region OF the Pa
eific. Notifications should be kept in |
their present status. When they came /
to details. however. the plenipotentia
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