South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-02
Five Power Naval Limitation
Pact Formally Present
ed to World.
RESTRICTION ON GAS
AND SUB is PLEDGED
Hughes Principles, as Set
Forth Nov. II, Fully En-
bodied IN Treaty.
By Associated Press


WASHINGTON. Feb. -
The Washington negotiations
for limitation Of armament
reached their contamination
Wednesday when a plenary ses-
sion of the arms conference gave
definite and public approval to
the two treaties limiting navies
and restricting the use of new
agencies Of warfare.
One of the covenants thus
sealed after ! weeks Of debate.
establishes a fixed ratio Of CAPT
tai ship strength between the
. FIVE great powers. and the other
pledges them against unrestrict-
ed submarine warfare and use of
/ poison gas. Within a day or two
the plenIpotentiaries OF the United
States, Great Britain, France. Japan
and Italy viii formally affix their
signatures.
At the same session the far east
I ern wing OF the conference moved
/, forward toward completion OF its
tasks by announcing officially the
terms OF the Shantung settlement
and by giving final approval 20 nins
of the resolutions adopted On COM
mittee in regard 10 Chinese prob
lens. The agreement on Shantung
already has been put into a draft
treaty between Japan and China,
and the other far eastern settlements
are 20 be embodied in at least two
general conventions which VIII come
before the conference shortly.
British Give Up Lcasehold.
AS soon as Japan's intention 20
withdraw from Shantung had been
definitely stated. the British an
nounced formally for the first time
that their government was ready 70
hand back 20 China the leasehold Of
-Hai-Wei The French let 10 be
known Wednesday night. however.
that they expected TO treat directly
with China over possible retirement
from their leased territory az Kwang-
chow Wan, a decision which ap-
peared 10 becloud the prospect of
any general conference agreement
regarding the Chinese leased terri
tories.
Two other conference projects.
one relating TO the Chinese Eastern
railway and the other TO the prOhibi-
ton OF importation of arms into
China, also encountered serious OBJ
stacles when the committee work OF
the delegates was resumed Wednes-
day. The japanese made sons
technical objections TO the Chinese
eastern proposal, which. coupled
with Chinese and French opposition
10 some features. resulted in sp-
pOlntment of Japanese French
/ Chinese subcommittee TO consider
a compromise. The italians and
japanese presented such pertinent
reservations 10 the arms importation
resolution that it was virtually de-.
cided not 10 press it for adoption.
No Surprises I'm Naval Treaty.
The five power naval Limitation
treaty. whose text was made public
for the first time with it's submission
at Wednesday, plenary session.
. contained no surprises and was ap-
proved by the conference without
general discussion. ITS terms. which
had been completely forecast Nv
published accounts of the negotfa-
tons, provide for 5-5-3-1. 6-1-g
/ percent capital ship ratio for ths
/ United States. Great Britain. Janan.
/ France and Italy respectively. inn
/ pose various restrictions on the sizs
1 and armament Of other types %
( warcraft and establish fortifca-
/ tons status quo in the Pacific
In the separate submarine and
poison gas treaty am attempt r.
/ made 10 outlaw submarines as CONF
merce destroyers and TO prohibit
F chemical warfare altogether. ThaI
/ language of the convention follows
. almost exactly the terms OF the Root
/ resolutions adopted by the arma-
ment committee several weeks ago.
Sec'y Hughes presented the naval
Limitation treaty no the conference.
and IN a speech OF 40 minutes e.
planned its provisions and declared
/ IL preserved without vital change the
/ American limitation proposal aid
/ before the opening meeting OF the
+ conference by him on nov. -. HaI
+ was followed by Albert sarraut.
head or the French delegation. who
1 disclaimed for his country the MILF
f tarist-c purposes ne said had been
eea-t 40. $500 .a ae AaAa aaa- N..r
f ton negotiations. and then The roll
7 OF the five powers was called and
unanimous approval az the treaty
given by mods of che head all around
the table.
Root Reads sub Treaty
The submarine and POISON So
treaty was read bv Euhu Root. au-
thor Of the proposals on which e
was based The covenant. DE SAID.
must rest for uIduuent upon de
humane public opinion az the world
which ne trusted go overthrow the
/ predictions OF "the cynical that the
rules laid down would be violated /.
+ whenever ans power an the future
found Itself with its back against
the wall The only other speech
f before the formal vote o. approval s
was made by Sen. Schanzer to-
/ italy and voiced general approval q
/ the two treaties.
IL was with even briefer dtscue.