The Washington herald., 1922-02-04
CLOSES ON MONDAY
Results Satisfactory to
President Harding and
Secretary Hughes.
s NATIONS AFFIRM
OPEN-DOOR POLICY
Unfinished Business May
Become Basis for An
other Farley.

cdlleO Dy FreSlQenI harolns OA
August IL. 1921. reaches the final
stage with a plenary session today.
At that time will be submitted
and approved the final treaties
dealing with the Chinese and Far
Eastern problems.
The success of the conference
was declared in administration cir
cles last night to be complete. Final
signatures of the treaties, of course.
will go over until Monday of next
week In certain instances.
But the concrete result, now ap-
parent. was described on the high
est authority as:
The greatest single move ever
made in the world toward an end
of war and an establishment OF
concorn among nations"
President Harding yesterday
could hardly resist the temptation
to talk at length on the work OF
I the last three months. Neither could
Secretary of State Charles Evans
Hughes, who. as director general OF
The conference, chairman and many
times mediator. never lost hope that
the inal result would be satisfac-
tory to everyone.
Results Are Summarized.
The best manner ofssummarizing
the work of the conference for the
benefit OF The Herald readers, would
seem TO be a comparison OF the
final results with the agenda that
was read by Chairman Hughes to
the assembled delegates at the
opening of the tnitialj plenary ses-
sion on November IA
Tae initial sua5est ssaS~ grouped
under the head of>sEfmitation of
Armaments." as follows:
Limitation of naval armament
which shall be discussed.
\. Basis of limitation.
p. Extent
g Fulhllment-
The result OF this discussion was
,eveaIed in its complete form at
the plcnary session held last We'd
nesday. At that time . sweeping
naval limitation treaty. to be en-
tered into by the Cnited States
Great Britain. France. Italy and
Japan was made public.
Made Suggestion Effective.
II carried into effect the start
ling suggestions revealed by Chair
man Hughes. speaking for the dele
cation representing the United
States. at the opening session, in
which. after declaring:
The way to disarm is to com.
mence,"
Proclaimed to the world that the
nava' race between the United
States. Great Britain and Japan
should end at once with the scrap
ring of certain vessels, built and
that in the future the ratio between
these powers should be: America,
5; Great Britain, 5: Japan 3.
To this limitation France anc
Italy entered their complete agree
ment, their proportion being estab-
lished and agreed at LIS; LIS.
The negotiations that led up 70
this agreement were most pro-
tracted. At times 7. appeared that
they would prove futile. At the
outset the Japanese objected to the
action OF Chairman Hughes and the
American delegation in insisting
that the great battleship Mutsu be
scrapped. 1t was hard for the
American and British delegations tc
understand the reason why Japar
opposed any such action. they fcI,
that they were giving up in return
almost as much as the Japanese
And there was no particular gen.
tinent among the various deieea
-tions to see why any surrender
should be made to the Japanese
opinion.
Explains Japan's Position.
In fact Chairman Hughes f1atly
declared that the yardstick lha,
had to be applied to the naval re-.
duction was one of measurement
and that the Mutsu fell outside o.
the inches suggested"
Admiral Baron Kato yery early
in the negotiations explained tbs
position of Japan in a manner thai
quickly swung sympathy to her no.
sition. He pointed out that IN.
great battleship. after all. had been
made possible by the personal sac
riices Of the common people of the
ancient --ingdom he represented
Her workers, her school children
ere men and women of the country
bad been taught that the Mutsu
carried inside of her great stee
frame the spirit of the new ia
pan" that had emerged triumphant
from the series of wars that had
brought the Japanese nation into
the forefront of the nations of TIE
world.
Agree on Amendment.
There was a very general sympa-
thetic reception by the conference
of the position OF japan as uttered
by one of its chief delegates. Final
iy. after very extended discussions
II was agreed that. while the naval
ratio originally suggested by the
United States must be preserved, II
could be amended in so far as the
list of Ships to be scrapped was
concerned to allow the japanese
government to retain the Mutsu
To do this IL was necessary that
Japan scrap two earlier type YES.
sells; the United States complete
two OF the West Virginia type and
scrap its two lowest on the list,
and that Great Britain should be
permitted to construct two. new and
Continued Oh Page Too.