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Show I DOZEN INTERNATIONAL PACTS TO EMERGE FROM CONEERENCE With Sessions Halted By Reason of Fierce Blizzard, Bliz-zard, Delegates Spent Saturday Awaiting Word From Peking on Harding's Proposal on Shantung LI JU. B) (.1 ORGE EL Mtr Ml S International News Service. ' WASHINGTON Jan 23 -Upward KH of a fin-, n Internal Imn I IimMpb are Wm 10 emerge finally from (ho .irruament BV conference, it was disclosed in offi- HgH clal quarters tonight as the parley ffW cloned lt eleventh week. 9J Tii1 exact number ol treaties in not BB yet know n t (he powers themselves HBB? Up in today, however, they have KHfl either completed or have begun work BBBl on eight .ind If (nay lie nressnry to KBj' increase this number to Incorporate EHj all the loose ends of the historic meet-lng. meet-lng. In addition t the treaties, there EJU probably will b also a number of RSI other International declarations, that BHl cannot be properly classified as KB The eight treaties thus far apparent- El L. ly are The five-power naul treaty I The four-power Vnclflc treaty between the United 9ta(es, Japan, Great Hrltain and hrance S Supplementary treaty to No. 2 defining the homeland "f Japan. . 4 The nine-power treaty Incorporating Incorpor-ating the various decisions t ha t have been reached 1 giving China greater Voice In determining lir c n affairs ft Another nine-power treaty re--"finlng (he open door nnJ Containing the four Hoot principles for Its appli- cation 1 6 The treaty heiween the United 'States nnJ Japan over Yap 7 The there-cornered treaty between be-tween the l'nlie.l StateSj, Japan and Holland over the disposition of Germany's Ger-many's former Pacific cables S The treaty between Japan and China on Shantung. SIBERIAN QUESTION. Them also Is the Siberian question to be disposed of, but It was said by a member of (ho American delegation i"iiiKh( that no decision had yet been reached as to how the pollcleB voiced by the powers here will be consolidated. consoli-dated. drafting ihee documents is a tedious tedi-ous and long-drawn out procesi hich accounts for the snail-like pace which iii- conference has traveled this week Virtually no progress at all was made today Washington was snowbound snow-bound and so was the conferen a whirling drifts ouishl. vicudiU growing deeper, the delegates, for the moKt part were content to llngor by their own firesides and (trail on the rabies from Pekln and Toklo to bring the word that will permit closing up comparatively minor matters. The chief outstanding differences was that that the American delegation made on the famous demand has apparently ap-parently borne fruit It has steadily bem asserted In British and Japanese quarters that the J demands, as such, would not be discussed tn lh Washington Wash-ington conference. CB .l OF I HOST. Today, however, there was a change of front In (his respect. An official spokesman for (he British delegation stated that the far east 1 ommlttee at it ttexl meeting probably would consider con-sider certain aspects of (he 21 demands de-mands Just what aspects of the famous demands de-mands will be considered was not disclosed, dis-closed, but it is believed that Japan Is prepared to renounce group V of the demands. Croup V contained what the Chinese termed "the most Infamous Infam-ous of the Infamous lot " and were I never accepted by the Chlneae as incorporated in-corporated into the treaties of 19 15. as were the other groups. Group V provided that China should mPloy Influential Japanese advisor in her political financial and military affairs, Joint Japanese and Chinese poll', po-ll', oontrol of all China, would haw pledged China to purchase. 50 p i en nf 1it munitions of woi froi Mid would'havo prohibited China obtaining ob-taining a foreign loan of any sort from any country without first consulting Japan PROGKKHS DRLAYED, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2B (By The Associated Cress ) The Shantung tie-up tie-up and Washington's blizzard combined com-bined to block again arms conference i progress today, hut the delay did not dim prevailing confidence that nil the conference Issues noon would b car- l ncei iorwuru 10 niunuu, So far on Shantung was concerned, it was a day of waiting fur the mediatory media-tory effort of President iiarditu; to nave Its effeot at Peklnt and Toklo ah indications pointed (o 11 decision earl nasi wees, and all delegates appeared ap-peared confident that the decision would be for s settlement along tho lines of the compromlso supported by tho president The postponed Japancae-Phlncs" meeting) 11 waH llrL had nothing to do with the TSIngtao-Talnanfu railroad rail-road Issue, over which Ihe Shantung negotiations are deadlocked, but merely was to have put into treaty, language tho agreements already reached on collateral subjects. DIFr ITRKNC IE OF VIEW. In the Chinese eastern railway dls- cusslons, which are a part of tho far eastern committee negotla'ons, differences differ-ences of view have developed which in any rase sem likely to delay 11 elecl-slon elecl-slon for several days while the powers fully determine their respective attl- 1 1 1 d S , It was said tonight that the Chinese oastern problem might become one of I the most difficult of tho lesser issues 1 of tho conference becnune of the situ-' atlon of the road, partly In Sib- rlan and partly in Chinese territory-It territory-It became Increasingly eipparont today to-day that the big question In the Shantung Shan-tung controversy was whu. degree of control Is to be retained by Japanese over the Tslngtao-Tslnanfu rallroadi while China Is paying ror It. With that out of the way, It is conc-eded. settlement of tho other details will he easy. |