Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-03
S|X-POWER PACT
ON CABLE RIGHTS
DRAFTED by FARLEY

| Associated Press. - The United
States, Japan and the Netherlands
fall heir to Germany's former Pa
cif1c cables under a tentative six
power treaty brought forth in
the arms negotiations.
While expert subcommittee work
| ed on leftover details of the naval
discussions, the delegates Of the
United States, Japan, Great Britain,
France, Italy and the Netherlands
put their heads together and came
| to a general accord over the cable
problem.
Under the proposal, yet to be for
mally accepted, the United States
would secure title to the Yap-Guam
cable, Japan would secure the zap
| Shanghai line and the Netherlands
| would become possessed of the Sec
ton connecting zap and Menado.
The settlement would expand, but
not invalidate the agreement previ-
ously reached between the United
States and Japan alone for a grant
| of American cable and wireless
rights on zap island. The two to-
gether would finally end the contro-
| versy over zap and its cables, which
began at Versailles.
OF the expert subcommittee,
| three reached agreements and a
fourth reported substantial progress.
| The subcommittee on aircraft
completed a report said to recon-
mend against any present attempt
| at limitation of air armament and
to warn against any restrictions that
might curtail commerce. ger :
velopment.
Root Resolution
| Drafting of the Root resolution on
| submarine warfare regulation was
completed by another subcommittee.
Only minor verbal changes were
made in the original proposal to re-
affirm existing principles Of interna-
tlonal law in respect to search and
| seizure.
Naval experts in still another con-
! ference subdivision agreed on a
standard international ton" meas
urement, to be applied hereafter in
] naval discussions in place Of the
! varying units of measure now in
! use. as
The subcommittee which IS
charged with completing details of
| tie naval limitation plan, including
| determination Of methods of scrap
ping and replacement, organized its
method of procedure at-sjts first
meeting and prepared to press its
| work forward by disregarding the
New Year holiday and meeting agt in
Monday.
In the Far Eastern negotiations
| resolutions were not so promising
China reasserted her desire to bring
the deadlocked Shantung problem
| before the full conference and to
again request conference discussion
of the twenty-one demands. Japan
will oppose both proposals, and there
| are indications that she will not be
alone. o. . +.
Meantime, cable advices regarding
| the conference at Cannes and indi-
CATIONS among various delegations
| here revived discussion Of possible
change Of attitude on the part of
| France which would permit an
agreement in the not far distant fu-
| ture on submarines and auxiliary
craft. There was no official back
ground for such an expectation but
| the Cannes deliberations between
| Premiers BRAND and Lloyd George
are to be watched hopefully from
| Washington.
Along with these speculations has
| developed new interest in the pro-
posal Of President Harding for fu-
ture world conferences that may be
| the beginning of an association OF
nations" That proposal, although
thus far one of the informal ele-
ments OF the negotiations here, is
one of the most persistent elements
also and may be brought to the
point of final action before the con-
ference quits. >
New Cable Treaty
| The scope of the negotiations over
the former German cable properties
in the Pacific, centering in the Is
| land of zap, has been broadened
into a six-power treaty definitely al
| locating the German holdings be
tween the United States, Japan and
The Netherlands.
A tentative draft of the treaty was
considered at meeting today OF
the heads of the American, japanese
Netherlands, British, French anc
| Italian delegations, and although fl
nal approval awaits further wore
from foreign capitals. the propose
found general acceptance.
Under the ALLEGATION, which goe:
much further than the separate YaI
treaty which had been negotiated be
! tween the United States and Japan
the American government is to have
full control of the. cable between YaI
and Guam, Japan is to secure the
line known as the Yap-Shanghai- ca
bic, now diverted to connect Yal
with the Japanese Loochoo islands
and The Netherlands is to have tht
line from zap to Menado, a city OF
the Dutch island of Celebes.
It is indicated that the provision!
of the recent American-Jap anese set
tlement, which give the United
States general cable and wireless
rights on zap. probably will be in
corporated in a separate treaty. be
tween those two powers. These pro
visions are regarded as a matter o
interest only to the United State
q and Japan, and their settlement wa
left to negotiation between the tw,
governments by the League OF Ma
tons after 1t had awarded JAP
| anese mandate over the island.
Long Death Roll
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