The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
EVERY DELEGATION
 SAILS CONFERENCE
 IS HISTORY MAKING
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Continued From Page One) resolutions already made public. and what had originally been a crowd of many hundreds dwindled gradually away until the galleries had many empty rows of seats without a single occupant.
 l Hughes Presents Treaties
 Secretary Hughes, acting as his own reading clerk, presented to the conference in turn the general far eastern treaty, the statements of the Japanese and American governments on Siberia, similar series of state
 ments by the Japanese, Chinese and American governments on the "twen- ty-one demands" and seven of the supplementary resolutions. Senator i Underwood, chairman of the confer ence tariff committee, read the tariff treaty, Senator Lodge presented the supplement to the four power Pacific treaty. and Mir. Root the resolution authorizing a future conference to revise the rules of warfare.
 Resolutions Left Out | As the agreements of the confer ence finally shaped up. nine of the resolutions formally adopted arc left out of the series of treaties, delega-
 
 with subjects which relate to exec utive policy and do not require rati- fication. These resolutions, which are declared nevertheless to stand as binding agreements among the pow ers,. provide for withdrawal of foreign postoffices from China, estab- lishment of a commission to investi- gate extra territoriality in China, regulation of Chinese radio facilities consideration of the question of with drawing foreign troops from Chinese soil, unification of the Chinese rail- roads, publicity of all commitments affecting China, better protection" for the Chinese eastern railway, conference of the powers on rules of warfare, and a request on the part of the powers that China re- duce her military forces.
 Supplemental Resolutions i In addition to these. the confer ence adopted today three supple mental resolutions, one establishing board of reference" to handle questions arising under the general far eatsern treaty, and another pro- viding that until the five power naval treaty is ratified the sigma tories are fin honor bound" not to dispose of ships that otherwise would be scrapped, and the third stipulat 1 ing that the five-power submarine and poison gas treaty shall not come under review by the conference on warfare regulations.
 l The supplemental agreement to ex clude Japan proper from the scope of the four power Pacific treaty. on the other hand, is to be ratified by 1 the parliamentary bodies of the sig l natories as a part of the treaty it. self. It is to be signed at Mondays session, the five power treaty to
 which it refers having already re- ceived the formal signatures of the plenipotentiaries.
 To Be Signed Monday l Besides this agreement, to which the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France are, party, the instru- ments to be signed Monday are the naval limitation and the submarine and poison gas treaties, to which the | United States, Great Britain, Japan. France and Italy are parties, and the general far eastern and Chinese tariff treaties which acquire approval by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, China, Belgium, 1 Portugal and the Netherlands. That will bring the total of signed treaties produced by the conference to six, while two others relating to Tap and the Pacific cables are to be put into final form and signed later. Like the Shantung agreement, these two treat ies are regarded by conference lead CTS as falling outside the province of | the conference negotiations proper.
 The text of the treaty binding the powers signing the naval treaty from selling warships between the date of signing and final ratification was given tonight in the official com munique as follows:
 Tt should therefore be recorded In the minutes of the subcommittee and before the full conference that the powers signatory of the treaty of naval limitation regard themselves in honor bound not to sell any ships between the present date and ratifi- cation of the treaty when such sale would be breach of article XVIII." (The eighteenth article of the treaty binds the signatory powers not to dispose of warcraft "by gift. sale or transfer" in such condition that the vessels might be utilized as warships).