Middletown transcript., 1922-02-11

Hanfhara followed, each signing his
name to all five documents.
President Harding arrived while the
Japanese were signing but waited in a
cloakroom for the ceremony to be CON-
pleted. Minister De Beaufort and
Jonkheer Van Blokland, the two dele
gates Of the Netherlands, finished sign
Ing at 1919. Their Government was
party only to the two Far Eastern
treaties.
Viscount D'Alte and Captain Vas
concellos, the Portuguese delegates, also
mad but two treaties to sign and they
finished at 10.50h. That ended the
| signing.
President Harding then entered the
hall a minute later. Audience and
delegates rose and applauded for half
minute, while the President bowed his
appreciation to all sides. Without an
introduction the President began read
ing his address.
IThe President, as he read slowly
from his manuscript, frequently was
matted by bursts of applause. He fin-
ished speaking at 11:1O o'clock and
then delegates and spectators bowed
their heads as a benediction was pro.
nounced.
There was long applause when Pres
ident Harding digressed to say:
F"While the settlement of the Far
Eastern question was not of direct
import to the United States. we re-
1oice in common with the world that
understanding has been reached"
AS the President named the Amer
lean delegates and thanked them for
their services to the nation there was
applause at the mention of each dele.
gates name. There was more ap-
plause when the President thanked
the advisory committee for its serv,
ices.
At the conclusion of the Presidents
address the entire party stood and
applauded while the executive took
his seat.
AS the applause had died away Rev.
Mr.. Abernathy stepped forward and
pronounced the benedction.
May 1t be in the heart of every
nation and every man." he besought
ito hasten the bringing of the era of
good will"
The prayer ended, Secretary Hughes
raped with his gavel and announced:
THE Conference is adjourned sine
die"
Six Pacts Were Made.
Six completed treaties, two others
agreed to in substance, ii resolutions
and 10 separate or joint declarations
OF national policy comprise the formal
and tangible contribution of the Arms
Conference negotiations to history.
By the major agreements of the
Conference the great Powers put a
limit on their naval strength in capi-
tai ships, abjure submarine warfare
against commerce and use Of poison
gas, gave China a new bill of rights
based on territorial integrity and the
open door and set up new interna.
tlonal concord to preserve peace in
the Pacific. In addition, Great Britain
declares her intention to restore Wei |
Hai-Wei to China, and Japan hands |
back Shantung and promises to with
draw from Siberia as soon as condi. |
tons there are stabilized.
These are the six treaties which,
during the u weeks of negotiations |
here, have been brought TO final com.
pletion.
Ship Limitation Treaty.
1. Naval limitation treaty, by
which the United States, Great
Britain, Japan, France and Italy agree
to scrap or convert 6S capital ships
and so limit future construction that.
after 10-year building holiday, their
hrst-line naval strength will remain at
$4,000 tons, 525,000 tons. 315 900 tons,
175,000 tons and 175,O00 tons, respect.
lively. The respective tonnage of air
plane carriers is limited to 135.OOO
tons each for the United States and
Great Britain, $1,000 tons for Japan
and 10000 tons each for France and
Italy. Individual capital ships are to
be no larger than $4,000 tons and
carry no guns In excess of 16 inches.
Aircraft carriers are limited similarly
to $1,000 tons and auxiliary craft to
10000 tons, and neither can carry
gun larger than eight inches. A forti-
fications status quo" is set up in the
Pacific, under which the United
States agrees not to further fortiry
the Philippines and Guam, and JaDan
agrees to observe the same restriction
in Formosa, the Bonins and the Pes.
cadores.
Submarine Treaty.
2. The submarine and poison gas
treaty, to which the same five Powers
are signatories. By it's terms the Pow
ers are signatories. b. its terms the
Powers agree as among themselves
not to use submarines "as commerce
destroyers," in all cases to observe
the rules of visit and search and to
regard as a pirate any submarine com.
who violates existing law. AS
among themselves. they outlaw use
of poison gas altogether.
Pacific Treaty.
8. The Four-Power Pacific Treaty
by which the United States, Great
Japan and France agree to
respect one anothers rights in rela-
tion to their insular possessions in the
Pacific and to meet in consultation
whenever those rights are threatened
The Anglo-JaDanese Alliance is auto
matically abrogated when the new
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