The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-01-03
phnT1lfy1IAYCL0SE,
ABOUT z weeks
Hope to End Negotiations EVi-
do1i in HiaJ Quarters,
SIBERIA COMES TO FORE
Delegates &xpect to Settle Naval
Limitation and Far Eastern Cues
tons in a Fortnight

Washington. Jan. 3.-The arms con
| ference begins the new year with most
| Of its members looking toward Il final
| adjournment TWO weeks hence. despite
several troublesome ISSUES
one Of the American delegates pre-
dicted the tive-pOWer naval limitation
! treaty would he pat into final form
| during the coming week, and in the
week following Il settlement would be
expected covering the Far Eastern
field. The same expectation was
| echoed in the foreign delegations.
y tendency to press the negotiations
to Il conclusion, even if some Of the
original hopes for accomplishments
have to go by the board. is evident
now III many quarters.
In pursuance of this policy, the ma
val experts who are ironing ouJ de
tails of the naval limitation plan dis
regard the New Years holiday and
spend the day at work. None of them
expects to find serious difficulty in the
technical adjustments remaining to
be formulated to cover such questions
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ping, and there is Il general feeling
the end of the week may see another
DIenary session of the conference for
announcement of formal tive-poWcr
treaty covering the naval limitation
scheme
At the same lime announcement
may he made of the new SiX-pOwer
treaty partitioning die former Ger
man cable properties in the Pacific.
This has not yet received the formal
approval OF all the interested nations,
hut the delegates seem confident unan-
imOus assent will not he long delayed.
The Far Eastern problems. which
will enter their period OF intensive
discussion next week, promise to de-
vel"p some difficult ISSUES The Shan
lung negotiations are deadlocked, the
Chinese request for conference discus
sion of the twenty-one demands is
meeting with determined opposition
from the japanese.
The Siberian situation was brought
suddenly into prominence through the
publication by the special delegation
here for the Far Eastern Republic of
copies of alleged communication be-
tween the Japanese and French gov
ernments covering the proposal the two
act in concert at the conference with
respect to the establishment of Jap
aneSe prOtectorate over Siberia.
Although the documents were
promptly declared by member of the
japanese delegation to be malicious
fabrication" and characterized by
French delegate as ''forgeries, stupid
~ contrived" there was considerable
speculation whether the accusation
would he brought formally before the
conference by the Chinese or some
other delegation. The Far Eastern
representatives themselves not only are
not members of the conference. but are
speaking for an unrecognized govern
ment
-44ff~a Dfenafy session is held this
week it is not impossible that its pro-
gram may include ratification of some
clarifying instrument to det1nessthe
scope of the four-power Pacific treaty
with reference to the principal Japa-
nese Islands. Negotiations for such
Qualification are proceeding the Ameri
cans having given assurance that they
will not oppose a Japanese plan to
declare that the treaty does not cover
the japanese homeland" The pres
ent discussions are said to be tending
towards accomplishment of that end
through reservation signed by all
the four powers.
Opponents of the treaty in the SEN
ate are busy organizing to prevent its
ratification, and are losing no oppor-
tunity to carry their fight to the
country.