The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-25
CRITICISM THAT GOVERNMENT
c1FD DELEGATES, THAT POLITICS
rs BEHIND WHOLE WORKS IS MADE
MEETING CALLED FOR LATE TODAY FOR
REDUCING FIVE POWERED treaty INTO
IT'S FINAL FORM; TOXIC HEARD FROM

WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.-The task
of reducing the five powered naval
treaty into final form will be begun
late today by the naval committee OF
fifteen. composed of the heals OF the
big Ave delegations and their experts.
A call for the meeting was issued
unexpectedly at noon today by Score
tary Of State Hughes, as chairman of
the armament conference. 1t is un-
derstood that the meeting was called
uron receipt Of advices from Toxic
to the effect that the wording Of the
Notifications clause was satisfactory
to the Japanese home authorities.
Havink travelled from Siberia to the
outlying islands OF the Pacific. and
agreed upon virtually all disputed
points, the armament conference came
back to Shantung today as the one big
outstanding obstacle of the program
and adjournment.
There are a multitude of odds and
enjs" relating to China and the vari-
Gus treaties vet to clean up, but they
arc admittedly matters Of time and
detail, rather than real differences.
that require diplomatic interchange.
Every effort will now be bent to-
ward getting China and Japan into
agreement on Shantung. Members of
the American. delegation said today
that the two delegations were very
close together" and that an agreement
might be expected at any moment.
The apparent optimis.n in American
and British quarters. however. was
not reflected among China's delegates.
The Chinese situation is admittedly
still full of dynamite. despite the
rapid progress of the conference as a
whole and the approaching adjourn
ment.
| While publicly hoping for the best.
the Chinese delegates privately init
mate that if Shantung and the q de-
manls go against them, in the closing
days they will have not other reconl Sc
than to duplicate their action in Paris
refuse to sign the treaty. All else
that the conference has done fof
| China vii, be of no avail. the Chinese
assert. unless Shantung is returned te
them. and unless Japan is forced tt
reliquish to some degree the hold she
obtained in Manchuria and Mongolia
through the 2l demands.
The negotiations over Shantuni
were not renewed lay. in order tha
the full Far East committee nigh
have a clear field to gather up all th'
loose ends of its agreements The,
will be renewed tomorrow. with enor
nous pressure on both Chinese an'
Japanese to speed UP an ADJOURNMENT
The Chinese. or nine powered treaty
} remained as the one important con
ference document which is not in deh
mite form 1t must await settlemen
Of Silantung and whatever consldera
tion the powers are going to give IN
81 demands.
The raval treaty will be ausnentc
{ by an exchange OF notes between IN
! FIVE powers concerned. defining tn
limits of Japan proper ard the Iortl
: fira.ions zones of the Pacific TIL
I four powered Pacific treaty will hay
coiicil tackled onto IT, taxing IN
Japanese homeland out OF the treaty
: An open session Of the conferenc
to formally approve the naval treat
/ and the Siberian policies Of the mite
II States and Japan. is probable within
> week. it was SAID today in America
quarters.