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Show Nevada Senator Submits Four Reservations In Resolution. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2" -Four res ervatlons on the league of nations' covenant are embodied in a separate resolution prepared today by Senator J Pittman of Nevada, a Democratic mem ber of the foreign relations' committee, commit-tee, in the senate today. Senator Pittman said the resolution I was in line with the suggestion made j to the foreign relations committee j yesterday by President Wilson that if j reservations are to be made they should be embodied in a separate resolution reso-lution and not in the resolution of ratification rati-fication which might make new negotiations. nego-tiations. Senator Tittman said the resolutions had not been submitted tcuibe president. presi-dent. They are simply those proposed by a group of seven Republican sena tors and deal with the right of withdrawal with-drawal from the league, Article Ten, 'domestic questions and the Monroe doctrine. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 China re-gards re-gards American acceptance of the Shantung provision of the peace treaty as "a deviation from the American policy of friendly co-operation" toward the Chinese government, the senate foreign relations' committee was to!d today by John C. Ferguson, an American Amer-ican and an official adviser to the Chinese president. While not speaking officially for the Chinese government, Dr. Ferguson said he based his statement on an intlmat" knowledge of Chinese official opinion. China's case in the peace conference confer-ence was based on the unanimous ad vice of some of the ablest International Internation-al lawyers of France, Russia. Belgium and Holland who agreed that tli-Chinese tli-Chinese declaration of war nullified the 1915 trealv by which China agreed not to take exception to any settlement Japan might make with Germany re carding the German possessions in Shantung. oo |