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15-YEAR PEACE
PACT ANNOUNCED
Treaty Limiting Naval ArmameEi
Proclaimed in conference.
BAN ON SUBS AND POISON GAS
Agreement on Pacific Defenses Elm
braced in Naval Treaty-Shantuhg
Settlement is Announced.

Washington, Feb. 2.-In a thBae
hour open session the arms, confereHct
approved both the five-poWer nafu
limitation treaty and the treaty put
ting submarine warfare against m2r
chant craft and gas and chemical War
fare under the ban OF disapproval. The
conference then adjourned on call.
The action was taken after presen
tation of the naval treaty by She
chairman, Secretary of State Hughes
and his brief discussion, followed BY
an address by NJ. Sarraut, of she
French delegation, expressing the ad
herence of France. The separate
treaty regarding submarines, and poi
son gas was then presented by EshI
Ruut, Of the American delegation.
Before the session ended Nh Hughes
read into the record a lengthy STATE
ment from the minutes of the conYer
sations'' which form a part of .the
Shantung settlement between CHina
and Japan.
The naval treaty will be in effect foi
fifteen years. The signatories are the
United States, Great Britain. japan
France and Italy.
For the fifteen years period al feaSi
the pact is designed 10 preserves the
peace of the world insofar as the stop
page of ruthless expenditures in yar-
ship building can prevent conflict
The naval treaty was not reads bui
Secretary Hughes outlined its tc9mS
and declared, SO far as capital Ships
are concerned, "1Ee integrity OF the
plan proposed on behalf of the Afneri-
can government has been maintaited. .
a capital ship is defined in the
treaty as any ship OF more than TO-
900 tons displacement which carr.es IL
gun greater than eight-inch calibre.
An aircraft carrier is defined as Il yes
sci of war in excess of 10000 tons de-
signed for the specific and exclusive
purpose of carrying air craft Stand
ard displacement is defined as the dis
placement of ship fully manned and
equipped and ready for sea Ean is
defined as meaning the ton of, 2240
pounds.)
A description of the terms of the
treaty outlines the results agreeu upon
by the Big Five following the tlra-
matte announcement of the American
proposals by Secretary Hughes at the
opening SeSSiC of the conference No
Vembtr -.
In presenting The treaty Mr. Hughes
gave somewhat detailed review of
the principal terms.
The integrity of the plan present
ed on behalf of the United States,' he
said. has been maintained and the
spirit in which that proposal was made
and i'll which it was received has dom
mated the entire negotiations and
brought them to very successful con-
cluSion."
There was applause when Mr..
Hughes said the United States retain
ed the number of capital ships pro-
posed on November II, and that Great
ilarly, the latter with the exception
of the new battleship Mutsu. The Cf-
feet of the retention of the Mutsu.
Mr.. Hughes continued, made necessary
:he changes in the original American
program by which two dreadnaughts
of the West Virginia class are to he
completed and the battleships North
Dakota and Delaware then scrapped
In the American proposals. Mr.
Hughes said, four principles had been
governing. They were, first, that All
capital ships now building and con
temnlated should he ahand"nnh'. se2