Arizona republican., 1922-02-04
MONDAY WILL
SEE CLOSING
Of HISTORIC
PARLEY
Except For Closing Cere-
monies Confere enc e
Has Ended; Harding De-
livers Valedictory Today
[Republlcan A. P. Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. - Except
for the formalities and frills that are
to attend its adjournment, the WASH
ington conference on limitation of
armament and Far Eastern questions
is over At plenary session tomor-
row the remaining treaties and reso-
lutions are to be formally approved
and the chief delegates arc TO say
goodbye to one another in speeches
expressing the qualification of their
governments over the conference ac-
complishments. On Monday at an
other public meeting, the treaties will
be signed and sealed and tomorrow
President Harding will deliver the
conference valedictory in g. brief ad-
dress.
Already the administration, looking
upon the conference agreements as
accomplished facts, lis moving Il sus-
pend work on the 13 battleships and
battle cruisers now under construc-
ton but destined for the scrap heap
by the naval treaty. The president
does not plan actually to begin the
Scrapping process until the treaty
has been ratified by all the powers,
hut he has asked the navy departs
n,ent for information on which an
Of der suspending construction soos
is to be issued.
In their final roundup Of tiIe Far
Eastern situation the conferen .e
leaders decided today to put their
conclusions into two Far Eastern
treaties and a number of supple
mentary resolutions. One of the
treaties will deal with revision of the
China TARIFF and the other wIA en-
open door" policy. Both viii have
as signatories all nine of the powers
represented here.
Actual negotiation Of the Far
Eastern problems came to agreement
today with statements delivered by
tne Far Eastern committee setting
fcrt4l the position OF the American
md Chinese government on the "2l
demands" DR. Wang said China
viewed with satisfaction Japan's an
that group five and some
other classes of the demand" would
be withdrawn, but reserved her right
to protest the parts remaining. Sec
retary Hughes asserted that tho
American government still stood or
its rights in the matter as it had
asserted them when the demands"
were laid down by Japan in 1915 and
there the discussion ended without
act on.
The only treaties to be formally
given conference approval at ton.or-
row plenary session are the two
relating to China, but there viii be 2
final ratification Of the supplement-
ary resolutions that have been adopt
ed in the Far Eastern committee and
probably an exchange of notes def
initely to exclude the Japanese home-
land from the scope Of the four
power Pacific treaty signed Dec. 81.
on Monday tie delegates will sign
the naval treaty, the submarine and
poison gas treaty. the two treaties re-
lating to China and the supplement
tary notes to be attached to the four
power Pacific treaty. The agreement
regarding zap, to which the United
States and Japan alone are parties,
and the six-power settlement allocat-
ing the former German cables IN the
Pacific, are not yet in treaty form.
II is expected they will be pressed 70
conclusion in the near future through
the regular diplomatic channels.
Secretary Hughes followed the
Chinese delegate with statement OF
the position of the United states. lie
read into the record the note sent 70
the Chinese and Japanese govern
ments May 1S, 1915, stating that the
United States cannot recognize any
agreement or understanding when
may be entered into between CHINA
and japan impairing the treaty
rights of the United States and It's
citizens in China, the political or ter
ritorial integrity of the republic OF
China or the international policy rel
ative to China commonly known as
the open door policy" 80
This statement was In accord WIZ,
the historic policy OF the Unl.eu
states in its relation to China" Mr.
Hughes continued. "and its position
as thus stated has been and still is
consistently maintained"