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Show I CHINESE AND JAPS SIGN SHANTUNG TREATY I WORLD LEADERS PRAISE ARMS PARLEY WORK Two More Treaties and Half ! Dozen Resolutions Acted j Upon ADJOURN TOMORROW Balfour Warns Nations Cannot in Future Violate Chinese Integrity WASHINGTON Feb. 4. (By tho Associated Press) The arms made on record of sine die adjournment Monday. iH At a four-hour plenary more treaties and it half a dozen sup plemental resolutions were passed through the final stage of confsrencu approval and then the delegnteq . - H changed farewell courtesies in speech- H es expressing universal satisfaction over the results of the history-mnklng H twelve Weeks of negotiations lust end- H ! Monday's session will be devoted en-tirely en-tirely to formal signature of tho con-ference con-ference treaties and to address H President Harding, voicing hii ap pralssment of the work accomplish. by tho conference he called ftioSt ,H of the foreign delegates plan to - H Monday night or Tuesday H RELATE T CHINA Th? two treaties cepted formal. j I I at today's sessiofn both relate to Chi- H na, one providing for a rev ision of the H I Chinese customs system and the oth-I oth-I or embodying Elihu Root's "four i points" and the amplification of the H open door. Some of the separate res-I res-I olutions put on thc record deal Collateral Chinese questions, but in- IH eluded In the lot was supplem. H to the four-power Pacific treat. ex- I I eluding from the scope of the Ogre . - ! ment the principal islands of the Ja-panes Ja-panes H SIGN SHANTUNG TREAT! A few hours after the plenary ses-Blon ses-Blon adjourned the Japanese and Chi-nese Chi-nese met ami signed the treaty Uy which Shantung Is to be returned to Chinese control. Although the lone- H dsbated Shantung question occupied H I a key position In the conference pro-i pro-i gram, the negotiations by which it H I was settled proc eeded outside the ference and only the two Oriental powers were made parties to th) ( ' INFERENCE I l LOGIZED El d. legation had oice in t'ui I final season of oratory that realty H brought the work of the c onference to J a close today, and every spokesman predicted that the negotiations would hulk large in the history of the world H Secretary Hughes for the United State3 and Arthur J. Balfour for Great Br If? H aln hailed the conference accomplish no -nts as ushering In a "new era' of H International Understanding and A - H bert s, , , r !ut for France eulogized tin H record of achievement as constltUv H ing the ' loftiest precedent of man- H kind." Similar expressions came from all other national groups. H PL! DGES RENEW ED What the negotiations had done .- T H China and for the peace in the crui i 'I H Of th' Par Ifli .. nd the I i r H was the keynote of nearly all concha! -I Ing addresses. Japan renewed h r ; pledges oi fair treatment for Chin through Baron Shldsnara who decli j ed his government wanted only to aid In bringing the Chinese nation to j its proper place In the world, and i Minister Bse of the Chinese delegation ! asserted his people would look up i i the decisions reached here as the bi -; ginning of a new inspiration to go ' I forward to orderly development. Dwelling on the Chinese situation us a cornerstone of the work of the conference Mr. Balfour warned thut no nation in the future could viola 1 the principles laid down here wlthOU sacrificing the confidence of the pow-ers. pow-ers. Hereafter, he said, selfish ag-gresslvSness ag-gresslvSness at China's expense could not be excused on a plea of ignor-ant.- or of private "understandings' with minor Chinese officials. H oo Hi |