Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-04
final TREATIES
ON FAR EAST
COME Up TODAY
Conference, Which Is Pro-
nounced a Great Sue
cess VIII Close Monday
OPEN DOOR AFFIRMED
Thought That Unfinished Bus!nessa
May Become the Basis for Another
Conference.

The naval armament conference,
called by President Harding on
! August II, 1921, reaches the final
stage with plenary session today.
At that time will be submitted
and approved the final treaties deal
ing with the Chinese and Far East
earn problems.
The success of the conference was
declared in administration circles last
night to be complete. Final sigma
lures of the treaties. of course, will
90 over until Monday of next week
in certain instances.
/ But the concrete result. now appar-
ent, was rescribed on the highest au-
thority as:
"The greatest single move ever
made in the world toward an end OF
war and an establishment of concern
among nations
President Harding yesterday could
hardly resist the temptation to talk
at length on the work of the last three
months. Neither could Secretary OF
State Charles Exams Hughes, who, as
director general of the conference,
chairman and many times mediator,
( never lost hope that the final result
would be satisfactory to everyone.
The best manner Of summarizing
+! the work of the conference, would
seem to be a comparison of the final
result with the agenda that was read
/ bv Chairman Hughes to the assem-
bled delegates at the opening OF the
initial -plenary session on November
! ~.
i The initial subject was grouped
under. the head of "Limitatlon; OF
Armaments," as follows:
! Limitation of naval armament which
J shall be discussed
A. Basis of limitation.
! B. Extent.
/ c. Fultillment.
The result of this discussion was
! revealed in its complete form at the
plenary session held last Wednesday
+ At that time sweeping naval limi-
/ tation treaty to be entered into by the
| United States, Great Britain, France
J Italy and Japan was made public
/ 1t 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
! mcnce.'
/ Proclaimed to the world that the
naval race between the United States
/ Great Britain and Japan should end
| at once with the scrapping of certain
vessels, built and building and to pro-
vide by treaty that in the future the
ratio between these powers should be:
American 5; Great Britain, D; Japan 3.
I To this limitation France and Italy
! entered their complete agreement,
their proportion being established and
agreed at LIS; LIS.
The negotiations that led up to
! this agreement were most DrOtracted
At times it appeared that they would
prove futile. At the outset the Japan
csc objected to the action of Chairman
! Hughes and the American delegation
I in insisting that the great battleshlp
| Mutsu be scrappcd. 1t was hard for
the American and British delegations
to understand the reason why Japan
opposed any such action. They felt
/ that they were giving in return al
most as much as the Japanese. And
there was no particular sentiment
among the various delegations to see
! why any surrender should be made to
the Japanese opinion.
In fact Chairman Hughes fatty
declared that the yardstick that
had to be applied to the naval reduc-
ton was one of Measurement" and
that the Mutsu fell outside of the
"inchcs suggested"
Admiral Baron Kato verv early in
the negotiations explained the position
of Japan in manner that quickly
swung sympathy to her position. He
pointed out that the great battleship,
after all, had been made possible by
the personal sacrifices of the common
people of the ancient kingdom he rep
resented Her workers, her school chill
dren the men and women Of the coun-
try had been taught that the Mutsu
carried inside Of her great steel frame
the spirit of the new Japan that
had emerged triumphant from the
series of wars that had brought the
Japanese nation into the forefront of
the nations of the world.
Graham-Ray Pruett came in Tues
day morning with the biggest fox foot
ever seen here. Pruett's dogs ran the
fox into . rock pile Monday night on
the II. J. Harvey place, and when the
hunters sent dog in after Reward,
the fox iun,ned out and was killed.
It was the largest grey fox seen
here in a long time. Graham hunters
killed fox on East River mountain
Saturday and several days ago
honsa dnor of E. T. Tiller treed grey