The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-07
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and they ought to glow and encircle
the globe"
The president delivered his parting
message to the delegates as soon as
the formal signing OF the treaties had
been concluded. and when he finished
the conference closed, as it had opened
on November II. with prayer. With
in a few hours some Of the foreign
delegates already had left Washing
ton and most Of the others will go to-
morrow.
Four treaties and supplement to
a fifth were given final approval to-
day, but their red wax seals had been
attached in advance and the entire
ceremony occupied less than an hour.
No other business remained and the
seventh and final plenary session came
TO an endsat 11:13 a. m, one hour and
eleven minutes after it was called to
order.
In the order of their signature, the
instruments to which the plenipoten-
tiaries affixed their names were the
four power Pacific treaty supplement,
excluding the principal Japanese is
lands from the scope of the pact; the
five power naval limitation treaty; the
five power submarine and poison gas
treaty; the nine power general far
eastern treaty and the nine power
Chinese tariff treaty. OF the three
other treaties resulting from the con-
ference that relating to Shantung was
signed Saturday and those dealing
with cable rights in Yap and alloca-
ton OF the former German Pacific ca
bles are yet to be put into final form
by direct exchange between the in
terested groups. The four power Pa
cific treaty was signed December 80
The signing took place at the desk
of the secretary general in the center
of the great hollow square formed by
the U-shaped green baise table about
which all the plenary sessions of the
conference were held. Only one dele
gate sat at the desk at time, but to
shorten the ceremony It was arranged
that each should sign in immediate
succession, all the documents to which
his government was party.
Amid applause from the hundreds
who had crowded into continental hall
TO see the wind up Of the conference
the American delegation tiled around
the U-shaped table and into the hol-
low square a few minutes after the
session began. One after another Sec
rotary Hughes, Senator Lodge, Sen
ator Underwood and Elihu Root wrote
their names TO the fire agreements
each touching lightly, as token OF
approval. the seals already set oppo-
site the spaces left for his signature
A hum of conversation kept ur
throurhout the hall, interrupted by
applause as each American delegate
rose and gave way for the next to sign
All of the foreign delegates were APP
plauded. too, as they came up in turn
10 give the concentrating approval OF
their governments to the achleVe'
ments OF the conference.
Called in alphabetical order the Bel
gian. British, Chinese. French. Italians
Japanese, Netherlands and Portugal
delegations followed the Americans
and the hand clapping which followed
conclusion of the ceremony had begun
to die out when it was renewed az the
appearance of President Harding
Many times during his address he was
applauded and when he finished the
delegates and spectators rose ano
Joined in a demonstration which end
cd orly when the Rev. William Aber-