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Show NAVAL TREATY ACCEPTED AT OPEN SESSION Adoption Means Huge Saving, Sav-ing, Secretary Hughes Tells Conference PROGRESS IS RAPID Terms of Shantung Settlement Settle-ment Public: Chinese Rights Returned WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Pormai as-'sent as-'sent of the five powers to the navnl j limitation treaty was given ai the ple I narj) session of the Washington con-Inference con-Inference today. The action was tal.en after pi -sen I tation of the treaty by Chalrmar I Hughes and his brief discussion, fob I lowed b M. Sarrsjut of the Frencl delegation expressing the adherens I of France. Tho separate treaty re j gardlng submarines and poison ga: was then presented b JSllfru Root. On S rolleall of the five delegations the submnrine treaty formally was I approved. The .session adjourn' d e.t p. m 1 to meet again at the call of the Chair ; man &( n EXPLAINS Mr. Root said the treaty he present-j present-j ed was a supplement to the nava agreement "You will perceive." he said, "tha , this treaty doc-- not undertake to cod fify international law with respect tc visit and search and seizure, of mer ; chnnt vessels. What it does under ! take is to state the law of nation; with respect to the visit and starch 0 ; merchant Vessels nnd that under n 1 circumstances are submarines exemp I from such hum: nc ml?. "Cynics have said that in the attest I of war these rules will be minted.' Mr, Root continued. Cynics arc always near-sighted, vv. may -rant that thej rule limiting the use of Implements of warfare may be violated In the stress of war. Put beyond rules and government govern-ment there rests th public . pinion of civilisation And th.- public opinion of the world can punish. ' IK MAM . Rl I.I 8 l L VTED Nations violating the humane rules, I Mr Loot said, will be visited With I "punishment that means national ruin." This treaty, he declared "Is an attempt to crystallse In simple and ' unmistakable term? tin opinion of civ-' ; titration Of all that exists. Senator Schanser followed Mr. Root land expressed Italy-s approval of the( submarine treaty. pefori thephnno session concluded Its Wbrk Mr. Hushes rend into the I record a lengthy statement from the ! minutes of the conversation, which1 ; form a part of the Shantung settle -j ment between China anel Japan The entire time of today's plenarv session of the conference Uie fifth in ! its course had been up to that mo-! mo-! ment consumed with the presentation and adoption of committee resolutions providing for ihe return of certain sov- icntles to China :md the announce ment of the settlement of the Sban-1 Sban-1 tung dispute The naval treaty was not read, bur Secretary Hughes outlined its terms 1 and declared that so far as capital j ships are concerned, 'tho integrity of I the plan proposed on behalf of the 1 j American government has been main ! talned " DESCRIPTION GIVEN. A description of the terms of the i naval limitation treaty, which will be found in another column, outlines the I insults agreed upon between "the big I five," following the dramatic an-inouncenient an-inouncenient of the American proposals propos-als b Secrctarx Hushes ;it the opeu-inq opeu-inq session of the conference on No vember 12. Just before the presentation of the naval treaty and after tho resolution j affecting Chins had been quickly 1 adopted without dissent, the Shantung j agreement was announced and de-I de-I scribed with satiafacUon by the repre-sentatlves repre-sentatlves of China and Japan. BALFOUR'S SURPRISE, j Arthur Balfour, heading the British 'delegation, described it as "the crown inc. work of Secretary Hughes and in representatives oi China and Japan," Jap-an," and then threw In another surprise sur-prise b the flat announcement thai 1 (Continued ' Page i" ) NAVAL TREATY 1 IS PRESENTED Arms Parley Holds Epochal Open Session at Washington Continued from Page Otic.) bi n announced by the tw delegations concerned lie Shantung treaty between Chins ind Japan, consisting of eleven iftioles I in addition to a number of annexes provides for return by Japan to China j I Of the territory nnd property 'n Shan-I lung as reported previously, In Associated As-sociated Press dispatches The Japanese agreed to turn over the Bhantung railway at a valuation of r3.00,0oo gold marks plus Japanese expenditures for permanent Improvements, Improve-ments, with allowances for depreciation. deprecia-tion. In return fo Chlneso treasury notes running If, years but redeeni-ablfl redeeni-ablfl within five years at the option of China. The agreement for management of the railroad provided for a hlne.se managing director, with a Japanese truffle subordinate and Chines and Japanese chief accountant with Joint powers. The Chinese managing director di-rector would have supreme control of the road. Article one of the Shantung treaty provides thnl Japan shall restore to China the former German leased ter-rltorv ter-rltorv Japan and China each will appoint a commissioner w ith pow ers I to arrange for the transfer of the properties. The transfer would be required re-quired wi'hln tlx months and the Jap-ane.e Jap-ane.e government agrees to hand over to i 'bin. i all archive, deeds ind other papers relating to Klaochow' The second article provides for transfer bj Japan to Chin. Of all public pub-lic property in Shantung wheth'-r or-Iglnall) or-Iglnall) i Jermnn-owned or built subsequently sub-sequently by tho Japanese. One provision pro-vision declares that no compensation shall he claimed bl Japan for nuch Japanese occupation or that of the Germans which Japan had Improved For these China agreed to refund the hare amount of the Jnanese expenditures. expendi-tures. Great Britain would send back to Chi na her lease on Wei HelW1 Secretary Hughes, presenting the naval treaty announced he would not rend it because copies had been distributed dis-tributed (fern-rally. Mi. Hughes gave a somewhat do-talled do-talled review of the principal terms and st.ited that the original American propositions as to capital ships, while changed In details, had adopted It sub- stantiaily. si i ( i -si i i, (i INCLUSION. "The Integrity of the plan presented present-ed on behalf of the L'nited States." .-aid Secretary Hughes. "has been maintained and the spirit In which that proposal was made and In which It was received, has dominated the entire negotiations and brought them to a very successful conclusion." There was applause- when Mr. Hughes said that the United States retained re-tained tho BUjnber of capital ships proposed on November 12, and that Oreat Britain and Japan were situated situat-ed similarly, the latter with the exception ex-ception of the new battleship Mutsul. Tho effect of the retention of the Mutsul. Mut-sul. Mr Hughes continued. nmdo necessary the changes In the original Am er Iran program by which two dreadnaughts of the West Virginia claws are to be completed and the battleship bat-tleship North L'aJtota uml Delaware, then scrapped. In the American proposals. Mr. Hughes' four principles had been governing gov-erning They were, first, that all capital capi-tal ships now building and contemplated contem-plated should be abandoned; second, that there should bo a further reduction reduc-tion of naval armament bv scrapping older ships, third, that reenrd should be had to the existing naval strength of the powers and, fourth, that capital capi-tal ship tonnage should be used as a basis for determining proportions of auxiliary craft. Ml ANs III (.K NAV1M. These four principles, lr Hughe9 ,l,i , "1 I" n applied In n gotiatlng the Daval treaty and had governed Its agreements. Secretary Hughes In closing said that no more necessary or significant treaty probably had ever been negotiated nego-tiated "I Ibvlously it means un enormous saving of money," he said, "and the llltinvr of very heavy burdens from the people." "This treaty absclutelv ends the race in naval competition At the same time it leaves the security of the powers unimpaired, but It means more Tho best thing Is the spirit manifested by which we wore able to reach this conclusion. "We are taking the greatest forward for-ward step to establish tho reign of peace." SESSION OFEX8 , The exact moment of the opening of the session was 11:01 o m. Chairman Hughes began with the resolution adopted In the Far Eastern committee. commit-tee. He brought In first the resolution of December 12 for withdrawal of foreign postofflces from China- Without discussion, the postoffice. resolution was udopted and tho ion-ference ion-ference then went into other Far Eastern Eas-tern resolutions In iiulck succession the two open door resolutions and two resolutions pledging against discriminatory railroad rail-road practices in China were adopted wthout debate. Every scat In the conference hall was occupied and man spectator stood '1 he audience Includod cabinet officers, supreme court justices, members mem-bers of congress and other offlciuls. The committee resolution providing for withdrawal of foreign troops from China also was adopted unanimously. TARIFF GOES 0 BR Mr Hughes then announced thot tho Chinese tariff resolution would be passed over for the present because of special considerations affecting it. It would come before the conference later, lat-er, he said, embodied In a customs treatv The declaration of the powers asking ask-ing China to reduce her military forces and tho resolution for publicity of foreign committments In China followed follow-ed the same rapid pathway to adoption. adop-tion. RADIO RESOLUTION The conference, then adopted the Chinese radio resolution of December 7, with the accompanying declaration of principles by the powers and by China already made public. That ended the string of resolutions and chairman Hughes nnnounccd amid applause that he hud been Informed that tho Shantung controversy 'hus been settled " Tho chairman then read the points of agreement between the Japanese and Chinese In regard to Shantung, the substance of which prevlouslv had 110ther provision declares that the Japanese consulate, schools and shrines shall be retained by the Japanese. Jap-anese. The third article provides for with-iwal with-iwal of Japanese troop from Shan tung, specially on lh railroad and Including Japanese gendarmes, as soon as possible when the Chinese police are ready to take over the railroad. It Is stipulated that the Japanese troop retirement will he effected by sections Of the railway at dates to be arranged between Japane.se and Chinese uu- thorltle. Entire withdrawal of Japanese Jap-anese troops la to ho effected within three months If possible nnd not iat r thnn six months Tin- Japanese garrison gar-rison at Tslngtao Is to be withdraw n with in .10 days. Article four of the treat;., dealing with maritime custom-, provides thai tho Japanese shall return to China the CUetOttlS house at Tslngtao Article five covers tho transfers of tho Shantung ralluay To sffecl thi transfer, China and Japan are to appoint ap-point three commissioners to compose a Joint railway cnmmKslon Which Is to appraise the railway's actual value and efrahgS for Its transfer In not less than nine months. Tho arrangement for traffic management man-agement and administration of the railroad Is to be in effect pending Chinese jedemptlon of the railway Article six doals with two extensions of the Shantung railway and provides I that the extension shall be "thrown j open to common activities of an Inter-I Inter-I national group" under the Chinese management. Article seven deals with the Shantung Shan-tung mines, which tho treaty provides pro-vides are to be taken over by a cor-1 pnratlon organized under a special charter of the Chinese government In which Chinese and ' Japanese cupltal shall be equal. Article eight provides for the opening open-ing of the former German leased territories ter-ritories to all on nn equal basis find! that foreign rights, established and future, shall he Mspfoted Article nine declares that Japan In tefsets In the salt mines shall bo bought by the Chinese government at a fair i-ompens itlon within six months Mil l IUGE 1 S 1 DEI) By article ten. the lights on two suh-l maiine cnbles nt Shantung are ceded by Japan to Chin l, provided thai Chln-ti shall arrange for Cdbls Undines Und-ines Article eleven provides that Japanese wireless stations in Shantung are to be transferred to China with compensa-t compensa-t Ions "Profound satisfaction" over the sol-Ubmenl sol-Ubmenl was expressed 1 v Tinnu Shl-dehaia, Shl-dehaia, win) also thanked Secretary' Hughes and Arthur J Balfour for their exercise Of "good offices " Dr. Sze, for the Chinese, made a spoe. h touching on Phnntung nnd the other Par En.stern problems considered, consider-ed, by the conference and filed with the secretary-general a record of the attitude adopted throughout the Far Eastern committee deliberations In regard re-gard to Chinese questions. He expressed ex-pressed the belief that the settlement would remove all possibility of misunderstanding misun-derstanding between China and Japan. Ja-pan. oo |