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Show i NAVALGROUP WORKING HARD! j Charges Made by Far East-, ern Republic Declared Based on Fabrication I WASHINGTON. .Ian 2. (By The' Associated Press.) Despite the New' Year's holiday, naval experts of th-arms th-arms conference delegations kepi S work today on their task of ironing out details of the naval limitation! plan which It is hope i to put into final i treaty form by the end of the week. With no serious difficulty expected in formulating the necessary technical adjustments to cover ship questions as I icplacement and scrapping of ships,! there was a t-nral feeling today that! the end of the week may see another! plenary session of Lhe conference for announcement, of a formal five-power treaty covering the naval limitation scheme. With this prospect for final disposition dispo-sition of the naval program, there was a general expectation tho conference would be ready to adjourn about the' middle of the "month. SETTLEMENT SEEN. Despite the several troublesome is-1 sues; which apparently have yet to be! cleared away In that branch of the negotiations Including the Shantung fjuestloa on which Japanese and Chinese Chi-nese are now deadlocked, it was believed be-lieved that settlement would not be delayed de-layed beyond two weeks. In connection with Far Eastern questions, the Siberian situation had. been brought suddenly into prominence promi-nence today throuRh publication b the special delegation here from the' Par Eastern republic of copies xof al-j legcd communications hetween the Japanese and FYooeh governments, covering the proposal that the two governments act in concern of it, in the Washington conference with re-: spect to the establishment of a Jap-! anese protectorate ever Siberia. CALLED FABRICATION Although the documents were promptly declared by a member of the Japanese delegation to be a "malicious fabrication" and characterized by a French delegate as "forgeries, stupid-! ly contrived" there was considerable speculation today whether the nccu-j satlon would be brought formally be-1 fore the conference by the Chlneso ori Mnif other delegation when the si-berian si-berian situation Is taken up on the i senda, The Far Eastern represented es themselves not only are not members' of the conference, but are speaking for an unrecognized Kuvernment, which left it entirely uncertain as to what coKnizanco giay be taken of the' cha rfce oo |