The Newark journal., 1922-02-09
Settlement of Shantung Contro- Versy Announced to the
 Arms Conference.
NAVAL TREATY IS APPROVED
Agreements on Poison Gas. subma- rines and Chinese Questions Also indorsed-Senate Passes Foreign Debt Rcfunding eill-Senator
 Kenyon is Made Federal
 Circuit Judge.
By EDWARD w. PACKARD

oY EOW HnO w. FlGNAnO C ECRETARY of State Hughes and o Arthur ]. Balfour accomplished great feat of real diplomacy last week when they succeeded in persuading China and Japan to accept the compro- mise arrangement by which the long standing and troublesome Shantung controversy is brought to an end. The settlement was announced on Wednes- day to the fifth plenary session of the conference, and both the statesmen voiced their personal rejoicing over it because 1t was their own plan Mir. Bal four went further and told something that aroused the conferees to cheers. He said that Great Britain had decid- ed to enter at once into negotiations for the restoration to China of the ter ritory of Wei-Hai-Wei. which 1t has held under lease since the time when Russia seized Port Arthur Thus China will get back sovereignty over her most ancient and most thickly-popu- lated province In It's entirety.
 Tn all major details the agreement between Japan and China Is as was told in these columns q week ago Japan it 10 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 Soo, represent ative of the Canton government. He asserted the Chinese people would not recognize the treaty agreed upon in the conference.
 Mir. Hughes presented to the con ference the completed draft of the naval limitation treaty with the agree ment on Pacific Qualifications, and it was formally adopted. No material change Tn the treaty as already de- tailed had been made, and the Pacific agreement also stands in the main as formerly described. According to the Qualifications clause the status quo must be maintained by America in the Philippine and Aleutian islands by Great Britain in Hongkong and the Pacific islands east of 110 degrees east longitude; by Japan in the Kurile, Bonin and Loochoo islands, Amami- Oshima, Formosa and the Pescadores.
 In presenting the five-power naval pact MT. Hughes said
 "This treaty absolutely ends the race in competition of naval armaments. At the same time it leaves the secur- :ty of nations unimpaired It is signif- icant of far more also, because here we are talking of arms in the language of peace and have taken the greatest forward step to establish the reign of peace"
 Albert Sarraut, head Of the French delegation, took the opportunity agan to correct misapprehensions concern ing his country's naval policy. He said France had appealed for only what she must have to defend her self, and added: "The camoufaced ghost of imperialIstie France which German propaganda parades about the universe may still deceive a few art. less minds. but It will soon evoke noth. ing but smiles"
 Elihu Root presented for approval the five power treaty outlawing poison gas and the use of the submarine against merchant shipping. He ex- plalned that II does not undertake to codify international law In regard to visit and search. but to state the most important provisions which already are q part of the law of nations.
 Tt does undertake" said Mir. Root ito stop the violation of these rules and the doing to death of women and children and other noneOmbatants hy declaring the wanton destruction of merchant vessels carrying passengers to be a violation of the laws of war