New Britain herald., 1922-02-06
Parleys Pave Way To Final Settle ment Of Pacific Prob lems And Also Chinese Questions
shant;ng Is Given Back by Japs-Use of Poison Gas in War Forbidden, as Are Subs Against Merchant Ships.

Washington, Feb. (By Associated Press)-Six completed treaties, tKo others agreed to in substance, four teen resolutions and ten separate or joint declarations Of national policy comprise the formal and tangible contribution of the arms conference negotiations to history.
 Great Achievements. ~
 By the major agreements of the conferencA the great powers put a. limit on their naval strength in capi- tai ships, abjure submarine warfare against commerce and use of poison gas, give China | new bill of rights based on territorial integrity and the open door and set up. new interna- tional concord to preserve peace in the Pacific. In addition, Great Britain declares her intention to restore Wei Hai- to China and Japan hands back Shantung and promises to with draw from. Siberia as soon as condi- tions there are stabilized.
 These are the six treaties which, during the 12 weeks of negotiations here have been brought to final com pleton:
 Naval Treaty
 Naval limitation treaty, by which the United States, Great Brit ain, Japan, France and Italy agree to scrap or convert 6S capital ships, and so limit future construction that, after ten year building holiday. their first line naval strength will remain q tons, 175,Oo0. tons, and 175,0o0 tons, respectively. The respective tonnage of airplane carriers is limited to 135,- 900 tons each for the United States and Great Britain S1,Oo0 tons for Japan and G0,0o0 tons each for France and Italy. Individual capital ships are to be no larger than 35,000 tons and carry no guns in excess of 16 inches. Aircraft carriers are limit ed similarly to 27,oOo tons and auxi- iary craft to 10000 tons and neither can carry gun larger than inches. Qualifications status quo" is set up in the Pacific, under which the United States agrees not to further fortify the Philippines and Guam and Japan agres to observe the same restriction in Formosa, the Bonins and the Pes cadores.
 Sub and Gas Treaty.
 2-The submarine and poison gas treaty, to which the same powers are signatories. By it's 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 commander who violates existing laws AS among themselves, they outlaw use of poison gas altogether.
 Pacific Treaty.
 3-The four power Pacific treaty by which the United States, Great Brit ain, Japan and France agree to re- spect one another's rights in relation to their insular possessions in the Pacific and to meet in consultation whenever those rights are threatened, The Anglo Japanese alliance is auto matically abrogated when the new treaty finally is ratified
 Far Eastern Treaty.
 1.-The general Far Eastern treaty, between the United States, Great Britain. Japan, France, Italy, China, Belgium, Portugal and the Neither lands, binding each of them to re- spect China's integrity, the open door policy is to be applied in detail and every opportunity is to be given the Chinese people to develop a stable government. It is agreed that no treaty infringing these principles is to be concluded, that no contracts vioat- ing them are to be upheld that dis