Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-06
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Washington, Feb. Six complet-.
ed treaties, two others agreed to IN
substance, fourteen resolutions n
ten separate or joint declarations OF
national policy, comprise h formal
and tangible contribution of the arms
conference negotiations to history.
BY the major agreements Of tho
conference, the great powers put a
limit on their naval strength in CAPT.
tai ships. abjure submarine warfare
against and use OF poison
gas. give China a new bill of rights
based on territorial integrity and the
open door. and set up a new intcrna--
tional concord to preserve a in
the Pacific. In addition Great Britain
announces her intention Of giving
Wei-Hai-Wei to China, and Japan
hands back Shantung and promises
10 withdraw from Siberia as o as
The Six Treaties.
These are the six treaties which
during the twelve weeks of negotia-
tions here have been brought to final
completion:
Naval Limitation treaty, by
| which the United States. Great, Bri-
| tain, Japan, France and Italy agree
to scrap or convert IS capital ships
and so limit future construction, after
the ten year. building holiday. the
! first line naval strength will remain
at 525, 900 tons, $4,000 tons, 325.00O
tons, $4,000 tons and 175,0Q0 tons
respectively. The respective tonnage
of airplane carriers is limited to 1885,
900 tons each for the United States
and Great Britain. $1,000 tons for
Japan and 10000 tons each for
France and Italy. Individual capital
ships arc to be nc larger than $4,000
tons and carry no guns in excess of
16 inches.
Aircraft carriers are limited SINH.
larly to $1,000 o n and auxiliary craft
to 10000 tons and neither can carry
a gun larger than eight inches. A
Notifications status quo" is set UP
in the Pacific. under which the Unit
ed States agrees not to further forti.
fly the Philippines and Guam and
Japan agrees to observe the same re-
striction in Formosa, the Bonins, and
the Pescadores.
2-The submarine and poison gas
treaty, to which h same five powers
are signatories. BY its "s
ers agree as among themselves, not
to use submarines AS commerce de
stroyers," in all cases to observe thu
rules Of visit and search and to re
! gard as a pirate any submarine con
mander who violates existing law. A!
among themselves they outlaw use o
poison gas altogether.
:. The Pacific Treaty.
s-The four power Pacific treaty b.
which the United States, Great Bri
} tain, France and Japan agree to re
| spect one another'S rights in relation
to their insular possessions in the Pa
cifc and. t. meet in consultatio'
, whenever those rights are Threatened
/ The Anglo-Japanese alliance is auto
matically' ~abrogated when the ne,
treaty finally is ratified.
4-The general Far Eastern treat
between the United States, Great Bri
tain, Japan, France, Italy. China
Belgium. Portugal and The Neither
} lands, binding each of them to resn"c
China's integrity. The open door poll
cy is to be applied in detail and ev
cry opportunity is to he given tn
Chinese people to develop a stabl
government. 1t is agreed that. no trca
, ty infringing principles is to be cor
tracted, that no contracts violatin
e them are to be upheld, that discrim
inatory practices in the Chinese rail
ways is to end and that China's right
as a neutral are to be respected /
future wars.
Tariff Pact
1.-THE Chinese tariff treaty ao
hered to by the same nine nation
! providing international machinery fe
c an immediate revision of Chinese Gus
. toms duties as a basis of v pc
: cent. effective and periodical revision
Thereafter, together with changt
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