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Show I HARDING OPPOSES CUTTING ARMY I H a s o a & a a. a a a. I LAND FORCES I IN 0. S. HELD I SMALL ENOUGH I Army Declared Near Point ( of Absolute National i Safety I SIBERIA SETTLED I Hughes Sets Forth Ameri- can Opposition to Ter- F ritorial Aggression I WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. (By the ited Presi I Although! Prt dent Harding believes that the work of g the Washington conference eventually gg9 WlH lead to reduction of both n;ial and land armament, h - i.s not pr.-,,:ir- LH od nnlv to recommend anj radical re- H duction In the land force of the Qnlt- I cd States. It was said today at the Whlto Ho n that Congress might vvi'.h the President's approval make some "modest reductions" below the pretf- gH ent 150.000 limit of the American vH Army but that the administration I vould not give its approval to any i - duction which would be forcing the-army the-army below a point of absolute na- flonal safety. B STATE OF DNBI M E Mr. Harding la said to recognize I hal the world :M I in a state ol an- H rest. He Is said to feel that If the na -tione of Europe were tp reduce their ,1 war armies to the same degree, a has ulready been done by this government, i he world situation would be gi H changed. An arniv approximating the pre H r.t strength of 150.000, the Presides Ulid to belle'.' represents 'i prop.-Lmplfl prop.-Lmplfl tO lie World He lVels, It :s H aid that. B i h Of million H or more effectives, does not represent H :-uch nn example, but rather presents a poor picture of what a great deraoc-should deraoc-should do Virtual settlement of the Siberian H question, so far as the Washington Arms conference Is oncerned, wus mi- rstood to have been reached todav at the meeting of the Far-Eastern committee, with the acceptance of th L eg - H plet) withdrawal from Russian terri-tory terri-tory upon establishment of a stable government. ill (.Hi s MAKES STATEMENT Secretary Hughes made .i statement I oi Hi,- position of the United States In eh he n i j under H io have re-afflrmed the policy of tie American government as against ter-ritorial ter-ritorial aggression. Agreement of the Pacific Island for-tificntions for-tificntions Question under which thu aH Bonln Islands adjacent to Japan are not to be fortified ahjo was repotted I fl to have been reached. Japanese delegates. It was said. II agreed to final drafting of the lurviflj treaty io Include a clause prohibiting fortification of the Konin Islands. Vb I treaty clause containing a description of the Pacific which should not l" noint of final ilr.iftlnc' ISBBBsl JAPAN l 9 ' UT The governments signatory to Hie 'four power Pacific treaty it was learn-ed learn-ed today have agreed upon an c-change c-change ol notes defining the treaty as not applicable to the mainland of At the request of Japan, the note have been drafted and approved j3 I the four governments but the date of formal exchange had not been deter-: deter-: mined. Japan requested and the other jH governments agreed it was said today, that the Bonln Islands should be eon-sldered eon-sldered as a part of the Japanese mainland for the purpose of the four . Qfl power treaty. |