Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-02-09
Settlement of Shantung Contro-
versy Announced to the
Arms Conference.
NAVAL TREATY IS APPROVED
Agreements on Poison Gas. subms
rInss and Chimes Questions Also
lndorsed-sensts passss Foreign
Debt Rsfundlng Blii--Senstor
Kenyon 10 Made Federal
Circuit judge.
by EDWARD w. pickAHn

Q ECHETARY of State Hughes and
~ Arthur j. Balfour accomplished a
great feat of real diplomacy last week
when they succeeded tn ~persuading
China and japan to accept the compro-
mise arrangement by which the long
standing and troublesome Shantung
| controversy 10 brought to In end. The
settlement was announced OH Wednes-
day to the nfth plensry session OF the
| conference, and both the statesmen
voiced their personal rejoicing over II
because IL was their own plan. Mr.. Bal
\ fUur went further and told something
that aroused the conferees to cheers.
He said that Great Britain had decid-
ed to enter at nce into negotiations
for the restoration TO China OF the ter
ritory of Wei-Hai-We which IL has
held under lease since the time when
Russia seized Port Arthur. Thus China
Will. get back sovereignty over her
most ancient and most thIckiy-popu-
lated province In It's entirety.
In all major details the agreement
between Japan and China Is as was told
In these columns a week ago. japan
1t to get out of Tsingtao and the salt
fields within six months. and Is TO give
up the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railway with
In nine months.
The one discordant note In. Washing
ton was sounded by Ma 500. represent
alive OF the Canton government. He
asserted the Chinese people would not
recognize the treaty agreed upon In the
conference.
Mr.. Hughes presented TO the on
ference the completed draft OF the
naval limitation treaty with the agree
ment on Pacific Notifications. and II
was formally adopted. No material
change In the treaty as already de-
tailed had been made, and the Pacific
agreement also stands In the main as
formerly described. According TO the
fortifca tions- clause the status quo
must be maintained by America In
the Philippine and AleutIan islands;
by Great Britain 10 Hongkong and the
islands east Of no degrees
longitude by Japan In the Kurile,
BONN and Loochoo islands, Amami-
Oshima, Formosa and the Pescadores-
In presenting the nve-power naval
pact, Mr.. Hughes said:
This treaty absolutely ends the race
competition Of naval ornaments.
the same time II leaves the secur
ty OF nations unimpaired. IL is signif-
cant of far more also, because here
We are talking Of arms In the language
" peace and have taken the greatest
Onward step to establish the reign OF
Albert Sarraut, bead OF the French
took the opportunity again
o correct Misrepresentation concern
ng his country's naval policy. He
aid France bad appealed for only
she must have 10 defend her
eli. and added: 1.-The camouhaged
host Of ImperiaIisfic France which
propaganda parades about the
niverre may still deceive a few art
sss minds. but IL Will soon evoke moth
~ but smiles.r /,
EIihu Root presented for approval
Ave power treaty outIa wing poison
as and the use OF the submarine
gainst merchant shipping. He 4
Iained that IL does not undertake TO
International law To regard 10 \
sit and search. but 10 state the most I
nporfant provisions which siready :
re q part OF the Law OF nations. q
III does undertake" said Mr.. Root, !
o uop Tive violation OF these rules .
ID the doing 10 death OF women and c
IiIdren and other noncombatants by b
the wanton destruction OF u
vessels carrying passengers p
BE- q violation Of the isws ~ war o