Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-02

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| One covenant after eleven weeks of
ital ship strength between the five
| great powers and the other pledges
| them against unrestricted submarine
| warfare and use of poison gas. Within
| a day or two tho plenipotentiaries OF
| the United States, Great Britain, ia
pan, France and Italy Will formally
affiN their signatures.
! At the same session the Far Eastern
! wing of the conference announced Of
| ficially the terms of the Shantung set
| tlement and gave final approval to
| nine of the resolutions adopted in COM
mittee in regard to Chinese problems.
! The agreement on Shantung already
has been put into draft treaty between
| Japan and China and the other Far
! Eastern settlements arc to be embodied
| in at least two general conventions
which will come before the conference
| shortly.
When Japan's intention to withdraw
| from Shantung had been definitely
stated, the British announced lnfor-
mally for the first time that their gov
crnment was ready to hand back TO
China tho leasehold OF wei-Hai-Wei.
The French let it be known tonight.
however, that they expected to treat
directly with China over possible re-
tiremeih from their leased territory at
| Kwans- Wan, decision which
appeared to becloud the prospect or
any general conference agreement re-
garding Chinese leased territories.
Two other conference projects, one
relating to the Chinese Eastern rail-
way and the other to the prohlpllon
OF Importation OF arms into China also
cncountered serious obstacles when the
committco work of the delegates was
resumed today. The Japanese made
some technical objections to the Chin,
csc eastern proposal which. coupled
with Chinese and French opposition
to some features resulted in appoint
mcnt of Japanese-French-Ch Chinese
sub committee to consider a compro-
misc. The Italians ma Japanese pre-
scented such pertinent reserves to the
armament importation resolution thai
it was virtually decided not to press
It for adoption.
The five power naval Limitation
treaty whose text was made public
for tho first time with its submission
at today's plcnary session, contained
no surprises and was approved by the
conference without general discussion
Its terms which had been completely
forecast by published accounts of ths
negotiations provide for 5-5-36-l.t
capital ship ratio for the United states
Great Britain. Japan, France and
lItaIy. respectively, impose various re.
,strictions on the size and armament
Of other types OF war craft and cs-
tablish Qualifications status quo
in tho Pacific. In tho separate sub
marine and poison gas treaty an at
tempt is made TO outlaw submarines
as commerce dcstroyers and to pro-
hibit chemical warfare. The Language
of the convention follows almost eS-
actly the terms of the Root resolutions
recently adopted by the armament
committee.
I t1I ~
naval treaty to the con:crcncc and eS.
planned its provisions and declared 1t
is preserved without Vital change tho
American limitation proposal laid be
fore the opening meeting or tho con-
ference by him November II. He wat
followed by Albert Sarraut. head o,
the French delegation. who disclaimcd
for his country the militaristic pur-
poses he said had been attributed to
1t during tho Washington negotiations
land then the roll of the five powers
was called and unanimous approval OF
the treaty given by mods OF tho head
all around tho table.
Tho submarine and poison gas treaty
was road by Elihu Root. author of the
proposals on which 1t was based. The
covenant. he said. must rest for full
fillmcnt upon the humane public opin-
ion OF tho world which tc trusted to
overthrow the predictions OF the
cynical that the rules lald uoNn
would he violated whenever ary power
In the future found itself with its back
lagainst tho wall.
The only speech before the formal
vote of approval was made by Scna-
tor Schanzer for Italy and voiced gen
lcral approval OF the two treaties. IL
Was with even bricfer discussion that
tho Far Eastern resolutions were
adopted and the big crowd that had
TANNED into Continental hall to sec
the first plcnary session since pccem-
bcr 10. showed many signs of inatten
tion long before tho three and one-halt
hours occupied by the meeting had
elapsed. By the hour OF adjournment
there worc empty seats In the galleries.
Secretary Hughes. as chairman, read
into the record. the nine chinese rcso-
lutions, hurrying thru their involved
phraseology in "A monotone like that of
reading clerks in legislative bodies.
When he had finished ono of the rcso-
lutions hc announced the assent of
the United States and then called tho
names of the other powers about the
table. Each delegation chairman re-
,spondcd with nod of the head and
then after the announcemcnt. "un-
,animously adopted" tho chairman
went on to tho next pass OF tho vol
luminous bundle II resolutions before
him.
! Briefly tho n'ns rcsc,stions thus