The New York herald., 1922-02-07
EIGHT TREATIES ARE
PRODUCT OF PARLEY
Six Are Completed and Two
Others Agreed To in
Substance.
RESOLUTIONS TOTAL IA
Ten Separate or Joint
Declarations of National
Policy Made.
CHINA GETS NEW START
She Will Insist on All Of
Japan's 21 Demands
Being Abrogated.
CHINA GETS NEW START

WASHINGTON, Feb. (Associatet
Press).-Six completed treaties, tive
others agreed to in substance, four
teen resolutions and ten separate o.
joint declarations of national polio,
comprise the formal and tangible con
tribution of the arms conference nego
tiations to history.
BY the major agreements of tn,
conference the great Powers put {
tai ships, abjure submarine warfare
against commerce and use of poison
gas, give China a new bill of right.
based on territorial integrity and the
open door and set up new interna
tional concord to preserve peace IL
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,
tions there are stabilized.
Treaties which Are Complete.
These are the six treaties which. dur
ing the twelve weeks Of negotiations
here. have been brought to final COM
pletion:
1. Naval limitation treaty, by
which the United States, Great Brit
ain, Japan, France and italy agree
to scrap or convert sixty-eight capt.
tai ships and so limit future con-
struction that after ten year build
ing holiday their first line naval
strength will remain at $4,000 tons,
$4,000 tons. $4,000 tons, 175.00o tons
and 175OO0 tons. respectively. The
respective tonnage of airplane car
riers is limited to 135O00 tons each
for the United States and Great Brit
ain. 81 900 tons for Japan and 6o.0G0
tons each for France and Italy. In
dividual capital ships are to be no
larger than 35.c0o tons and carry no
guns in excess of 16 inches. Air.
craft carriers are limited similarly
to $1,000 tons and auxiliary craft to
10000 tons, and neither can carry a
gun larger than inches, MA forti-
fications status quo'' Is set up in
the Pacific, under which the United
States agrees not to further fortify
the Philippines and Guam, and
Japan agrees to observe the same
restrictions in Formosa, the Bonins
and the Pescadores.
2. The submarine and poison gas
treaty, to which the same five Pow
ers are sgnatories. BY Its terms
the Powers agree as among them
selves not to use submarines las
commerce destroyers.' in all cases
to observe the rules of visit and
search and to regard as a pirate
any submarine commander who vio-
lates existing law AS among them
selves they outlaw use of poison
gas altogether.
3. The four Power Pacific treaty,
by which the United States. Great
Britain, Japan and France agree
to respect one another's rights in
relation to their insular possessions
in the Pacific and to meet in con-
sultation whenever those rights are
threatened. The Anglo-Japanese al
lance is automatically abrogated
when the new treaty finally is rati-
fled.
4. The general Far Eastern treaty,
signed by the United States, Great
Britain, Japan, France, Italy. China,
Belgium, Portugal and the Neither
lands, binds each of them to respect
Chinais integrity. The open door
policy is to be applied in detail and
every opportunity Is to be given the
Chinese people to develop stable
government 1t is agreed that no
treaty infringing these principles Is
to be concluded, that no contracts
violating them are to be upheld,
that discriminatory practices in the
Chinese railways is to end, ana that
China's rights as a neutral are TO
be respected in future wars.
s. The Chinese tariff treaty, adhered
10 nv the same nine nations, pro-
viding international machinery for
an Immediate revision of Chinese
customs duties on q basis of per
cent, effective and periodical re-
visions thereafter, together with
changes which will permit IMPOSE
ton of surtaxes
6 The Shantung treaty between
Japan and China. by which shan
tunR is restored TO Chinese control.
Rv one OF tho uncompleted treatie'
a,yreed TO I'm substance during the con
ference Japan gives the United State!
tbc lonr sought cable and wireless priv
ileges on the island of Yap, and by th'
other the five principal Powers and Th'
Netherlands allocate the former Ger
man owned cables In the Pacific SO tha
one roes to the United States, one Il
Jauan and one to the Netherlands.
Fourteen Resolutions.
Briefly the fourteen resolutions receiv
ing conference approval embody the fol
ln,xfnr decirions: