Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-05


TREATY TO BE
FURTHER CLARIFIED.
Other Qualifications of the pact aside
from that referring specifically to the
japanese mainland, may be incorporated
in the understanding. Informal CONVEX
sations are now going on with regard to
these and it is expected they will be con
Guided by Jan. II. the date on which A. J.
Balfour, head of the British delegation,
plans to return to England.
The character of these other clarified
tions, if any are to be agreed upon, was
not made clear today, but it was pre-
dicted in responsible quarters that by the
time the treaty is submitted to the United
States Senate it viii be in such shape as
to remove nearly all the senatorial OPP
position except that Of the out-and out
irreconcilables.
At a meeting of the Far East commit
tee, the powers formally ratified the pro-
pOsal granting China per cent tariff.
1t was also agreed this tariff may at
some future date be raised TO ~ per
cent and even to 1912, conditional upon
the Likin CnternaD tax being removed.
An international tariff commission will
sit in Pekin next summer to consider
the increase above > per cent
FARLEY RESUMES
GENERAL ACTIVITIES.
Shaken out Of the lethargy that has
prevailed for some days the armament
conference resumed activities all along
the line and material progress was in
sight in both naval ard Far Eastern
matters.
A plenary session Of the conference was
in sight for Saturday when the Far East
committee resumed its sessions after a
three weeks stalemate.
The principal business Of the open ses-
sion will be the submission and formal
approval Of the naval treaty between the
five powers, all points now having been
agreed upon except that pertaining to the
use Of submarines. An effort probably
will be made to whip a submarine agree
ment into shape for incorporation in the
treaty.
Submarines will be retained as weapons
of future warfare, despite the determined
fight waged by Great Britain for their
abolition, bui restrictions will be placed
about their use so as to confne their
activities to war vessels.
On this point, sharp differences Of
opinion are held as to what constitutes
war vessel and a merchant vessel The
French, Japanese and Italians want to
know whether the placing Of guns on
merchant ships does not convert them
into warships, and they planned to make
the conference go on record In the mat
ter. It is likely to lead 10 some acri-
monious debate.
The day may see the final quietus put
on Chinas hopes Of getting the world to
consider the validity Of the twenty-one
Japanese demands, which were forced on
her in 1915 under an ultimatum from
Toxic.
FARLEY TO MAKE
ATTITUDE CLEAR.
The conference does not intend to con-
slider the righteousness Of these dema nds.
under which Japan gained for herself a
dominant position~in some Of China's
richest territory and # the Chinese
delegates in Washington insist upon re-
newing their protes the conference pow
ers will tell them so fatty
A British spokesman summed up the
conference attitude on the twenty
demands by stating today:
IAN agreement IS in sight to give
China as large a measure OF her in
dependence as she herself has not given
away"
1t is the position of the powers here
that China signed the treaties incorpo-
rating the twenty-one demands They
have been in force five years and it Is
too late now to risk the success of
thee parley by tearing up these treaties
The principal business before the Far
East committee was the ratification OF
the subcommittee report on Chinese
tariff. China will be granted immedi-
ately 5 per cent tariff and there will
be a proviso that this figure may be in
creased to ~ per cent on the recon-
mendation of an international commits
sion some time in the future In Chinese
quarters it was accepted that the ~
per cent tariff is extremely distant.