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Show musmi QUESTIONS UP A.nns Conference Hastens Task; Will Sign Treaties Trea-ties Monday WASHINGTON, Feb 2. (My the Associated Prcjss.) Its naval diOU l.slons concluded and the results wrlt- jten into treaty form, the arms conference confer-ence turned Us full attention to the i par Eastern situation again today with thi hope of bringing the Washington hi :otkitions finally to an end tills, : week. The famous "HI demands" was tlio immediate business before the Fur i ' stern' commute und at the lime time aub-oi mnilttoo met to try for omproinliui on tho Chinese Eastern I ' I 'all way problem. i , 1TIK8 PLANNED Meantime a possibility devaloped' I that tho Far Eastern declelons of the conferonco might be put Into three treaties Instead at two. Some confer-' I once leaders went to wrlt a treaty on I tho four Hoot p lnclpleB. and tne open' ! !uur, unother on customs arrange j mente in Qhlnu und a third to cover other Far IZaatorr. resolutions udopt-. udopt-. .' by the eonferenae. In the Far Eas-j tern committee, urranpements were' : made for speeches by the Chinese, jo ian so and American delegations on ;h- L'l dem&ndi The general tenor be-to be-to Indicate that the adjustment ul-ready ul-ready reaohed on the Shantung ques-, 'lions i iid ti e ucilon taken by the con-frronc- on other Chinese problems Involved In-volved In the general treaties to be completed today will make further i nald ition of the 21 demands tin-' necessary. The Chinese Eastern Railway questions, ques-tions, It was said, might be in shape in time for submission today to the-in the-in ede -if delegations. U mi R BAILS TUESDAY It is hoped to hold u plenary session Saturdey wlien tho remaining treaties will bo presented to the full conference, confer-ence, and, receiving the approval of th'.' delegations) will mark the end of th conference proper. On Monday the delegation heads would gather In the department and formally Mgn :1) of the treaties remaining- Arthur J iirnes Balfour wishes to leave Wash-ln Wash-ln ton next Monday night at the latest' to sail on tho Aqultanla next Tuesday, and within a few days thereafter, un-d un-d present plans, all of the delegates v.lM hivo left 'uhlngton. As the result of an Inquiry made by Tin Netherlands provcrnment, notes are now being drafted and delivered to! that government and to tho govern-' mrnt of Portugal, assuring them that' th are Included In all of the guaran-! tees contained in tho four-power Pa-' Pa-' lO Therefora. immai &a. I herence of these two governments to the treaty is held to be unnecessary. The British delegation Is considering! the method by which Wei-Hal Wei shall bo returned to China in accordance accord-ance with tho pledge given Wednes-would Wednes-would he dealt with directly between representatives at Peking and the Chinese Chi-nese authorities there. Thf Hrltlsh government has considerable property In this Chinese port, such as hospitals, docks, warehouses and the like It vras paid today by n British spokesman, spokes-man, that some of these might remain re-main In British possession without, however, affecting Chines property. The port for years has been a favorite ii 1 1th rt-sort for tho personnel of the British Indian fleet when the men were run down by long tropical service-I service-I The regiment of Chin-, pollsters aervlng under British officers at Wel-Hai-Wel, probably would be turned Over to the Chinese government to serve as police, it was said, as some provisions would hav to be made for tho maintenance of order In the port. Nothing has been known officially here as to the purpose of the French government with regard to Kwang-. Kwang-. how-Wan, though tho French dele-gutes dele-gutes have indicated that the French government would deal dlreutly v 1th the Peking authorities with regard to the return to China of that territory, oo |
