Show 16 NOW MINOR DETAILS ALONE REMAIN TO BE WORKED OUT RE SULT CALLED US VICTORY bitterness between france and england growing intense As sessions progress japan well pleased with conference washing ton the conference ot of washington la Is practically over all that remains to lie be lone in 1 minor and destelle de stille superficial quarrels and bleke rings the results could be written today these results will be 1 the or of naval construe tonii truc tion bluh measurably wrapping scrapping tile lie existing units 2 tile the postponement and not lot impossibly tile hie prevention of ni all american japanese war 9 tile atio acceptance on tin the part of each country of a set bel of abstract principles in fit tile lie far oust eat without any form or of for their application 4 in some way not yot yet bulte clear ilia elimination of tile anglo japanese alliance tho the price of tile first achievement la Is the surrender hy by file uj united staten stated of the power placed in its hands liy by the last war to become tile alic supreme naval country of the world the price of the becony result will ile ho ill alic recognition of ill alir special rights ant aal interests of japan in it all of the far east but particularly in manchuria such ion duly testified to by the surrender on oil lio lie part if if treat brit gill find tile united states of that lint play nav at al power which would permit successful challenge the price which tile the united states will receive in fit return for tile acceptance of tile the third point wilt will be a japanese agreement to retire from shantung and front froni siberia berla 41 tiro tire anco ance of the lie anglo alliance will be the compensation lint iho mr air will receive for not pressing the far eastern question as if had been expected it would be pressed in tile the beginning these results will bo be regarded in the united butted states us as it grent great victory for mr for american diplomacy 0 in it tin file continent of diplomacy on tile tho continent of europe the washington has already been as a victory for diplomacy even more completed nud ami far reaching than that of tho the paris conference euce ra ineat brita in there hero will ile boa a tendency to depreciate tind regret that no greater curb line lias been placed on japan no serious effort made to reduce french arms and III finally no closer association between the united states and great britain ac dually arranged nevertheless the people will rejoice in the escape front from a naval competition with the united states which they could not afford or front from a voluntary surrender of sen supremacy to which they not pat themselves not improbably tile tho washington can ference will ile be instantly attacked by duall many y so called liberals the world over III fin no relief for existing afflictions ol of 1 mu horld and representing no forward step toward international association or toward tho the league of nations on the other hand thero there will ft be a gen ertil disposition in this country and En england glaud to accept mr hughes estimate and regard tile the washington conference as a fir first at step in the direction of international ter understanding sir mr hughes conception that tile the way to begin was begin and that tile limitation of n naval aval was the one specific and definite tiling which could lie be done liaf haq prevailed lias has made the conference what it has ills been lind tile ultimate success or failure will depend on oil I 1 whether ns as mr believes the present session proves a beginning or au an isolated Isolate tl incident ono one further consequence of the washington conference Is likely to bo be thu tho final dissolution of of anglo french liea tics tile bitterness here between the two nations lias bas been more acute than Is generally known ali M and mr for example have never called upon each cacti other or met except in it the accident of the conference or in an social occasion cislon oc french support or of he american thesis in tho lie matter of submarines lias has aroused a british re estment ent ment which Is likely to disclose self belf la in n h startling fashion after tile conference |