Show r tV I V r 0 tor 7 v Ii SHANTUNG CASE I HINDERS CAUSE GAUSE CAUSEs I OF a I IOther Oth Other r Nations Grow Restive While Japan and China China I Wr Wrangle Over Big Program Program Program Pro- Pro gram of Differences I II I WASHINGTON Jan 14 B By lay the Associated I Press The Press The Shantung ne ne ne 1 t took ok another step forward today I the while all other activities of I 1 still arms anus confer conference nce were at a stand- stand j I i the athe Meeting Japanese for and the twenty-sixth twenty time II Chinese agreed I ing some to of complete the preliminary moves looking look look- on I restoration of Klao Kiao CI Chow w territory to China I There mere also was apparent apparent In some I quarters a mounting hope that the question of the Shantung railroad the i only point on which the two dele delegations a- a have ha found themselves deadlocked dead dead- locked would be settled soon on the b basis sIs of American and British compromise compromise com com- promise suggestions now under consideration consideration con con- in Pekin and Tokio The halting halting- progress of the dIscussIons discussions discus dIscus- however coupled with I suspension slon sion of conference negotiations on other subjects led to renewed rumbling rum rum- j bUngs bling s of disappointment from foreign for for- forI I eign delegations anxious to get tet et home homel I Conference officials are talking to tonight tonight to- to night of a resumption of the sessions i of the Far Eastern committee next I week and although twenty tour hours before they had indicated that the thel II committee would not reassemble until ti the Shantung problem had been beena ived solved Besides Shan Shantung ung the general Far I I Eastern issues constitute virtually the only remaining business of the conference con con- con I ference terence A reply still stiff 1 Is awaited from I Tokio regarding regarding- the Pacific fortifications I section of the naval treat treaty but I I meet meat delegates are so confident that the point wi will be easily settled that I they are beginning to speak of the naval na negotiations as a closed chapter I AMERICAN VIEW HOLDS I A view that the Far Par Eastern discussions discussions dis dis- should be held in abeyance I to give free rein for the Shantung Shantung I negotiations has been emphasized in I American American quarters it being argued that the the- Japanese and Chinese groups I were fully occupied with the question question ques ques- tion of the Kiao Klao Chow leasehold and j i that the Far Eastern committee could j not go ahead without them It is evident however that not all delegations agree with the AmerIcan AmerIcan Amer Amer- I ican view vIe After nine weel weeks s of dIscussions discussions dis dIs- and with important political developments de shaping in foreign capitals cap- cap J some delegates delegat's pre are outspoken en in their desire to avoid eve every every- unnecessary unnecessary un- un un 1 necessary delay in the main tasks s. s un j That some spirited clashes b of bf opinion 1 ion are to be expected when hen the Far Eastern meetings are resumed Is I becoming more apparent Today Dr I Chung Hut Wang Chinese delegate Issued a statement reaffirming the determination of of China to press her request for conference discussion of the twenty one demands despite objections of the Japanese Evidences that not only this i request quest but th the Chinese proposal for abolition of spheres of Influence and for restoration restora restora- I tion of ot leased areas face a dubious prospect Among officials close to the Shan Shan-I Shantung Shan Shan- I I tung conversations the tho opinion prevailed prevailed pre pre- today that both China and Japan must be ready to adopt ai a I compromising attitude on the railway railway rail rail- rail rail-I way question which caused the discussion discussion dis dis- I of two weeks ago before I they hoped to reach a settlement It It Itis Is believed a formula und under r discussion dIscussion discussion discus dIscus- sion is that Japan provide a loan of Japanese capitalists for the restoration restora- restora restora-I restora j lion tion of the railway but with the abandonment abandonment aban- aban by Japan of her claim for the appointment of Japanese railway ex experts ex ex- I II to such posts as traffic manager manager mana mana- mana-I mana I ger er and chief accountant I PROGRESS PROGRESS is MADE I The delegates tes today ad a advanced far tar in inthe inthe the discussion of the restitution of ot the leased territory of Kiao Chow The Japanese agreed to turn over to to China all official documents which nave na been accumulated notably those referring to land titles On Monday the dele delegates ates will taI take e up the question ques ques- i tion Uon of how soon the territory Js to I be restored and then go on to tb the I questions of ot the salt fields and theIron tho the iron and coal mines I Meantime the question of Pacific fortifications Is in the hands of the I Japanese cabinet as a result of the new proposal to define detine an exact zone I of limitation of fortifications to the present statute II I It is expected that a favorable an answer an- an anI I saver will be received from Tokio Toldo In I time thyme to complete naval discussions discussions' next week It was learned today that that I Ithe the new zone proposition which emanated ema- ema I ema-I j from the British delegates was i a the cause of a somewhat heated discussion discussion dis dis- when it was broached to 1 the conferees but no one expects a a Serious serious se- se seI se I rious hitch will develop now Plans for the general treat treaty regarding re- re Carding garding the Far East are solidifying The American delegation met today I to give ghe Its f first attention to the tentative tentative tenta- tenta tenta-I tenta tive live treaty draft rat prepared by legal experts The drafting committee I headed heade by Elihu Root also whipped into shape the thc separate resolution suggesting reduction of the armed I I forces of China I I NATIONS DISAPPOINTED I Dr 1 Wangs Wang's assertion that the twenty one demands question would I be pressed before the Far Eastern committee was received with m manifestations mani mani- nl- nl of disappointment In several set sev eral other delegations Japan entered the conference on condition that closed incidents incidents' would not be dIscussed discussed discussed dis dIs- cussed and the representatives of other powers have conceded privately i that they saw no to way bring into I the discussions any subject which any sovereign nation refused to consider In addition some American and other dele delegates ates are known to hold firmly to the belief that the treaties and anti agreements growing out of or the I one twenty demands cannot be Judged I invalid m-a m IId because they were sl signed ned under r duress Dr Wang rang however said that thai it was Inconceivable that the demands demands de t de-t mands should not be discussed by a conference actuated b by a desire to remove Far Eastern embarrassments Prospects of ot Chinese success in the attempt to abolish discriminatory railroad practices and to secure surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render of or leased territories seemed at this stage to be almost as its hopeless as her case a against the demands Japan has indicated she would not give up the peninsula and Port Arthur with a consequent I French rench Insistence on retention of her spheres of ot influence while the question of or preferential railroad rates has shown itself almost Impossible of solution after a a. prolonged ed season of informal examination Neither of ot these points I has come formally before the Far East committee however 01 |