OPENS TO-DAY.
CONFERENCE OF POWERS. FORMAL BUSINESS FIRST. AT WORK NEXT WEEK. The great conference of nations—• Britain, America, France, Japan, China and several smaller powers—will open at Washington to-day. President Harding, the author of the gathering, will open the conference, and then formal business will follow, the principal tasks being commenced next week. The programme of procedure divides the business of the conference into two sections—firstly, the armament problem, and, secondly, Far Eastern and Pacific questions. By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 11, 9.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 10. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent says the State Department has announced the formal programme for the first session of the conference. There will be two addresses, one by President Harding and the other by the presiding officer. It is believed Mr. C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State) will be chosen for that post. The Secretariat-General will be chosen, and also two committees of programme and procedure. One will deal with the limitation of armaments and the other with Pacific and Far Eastern questions. The former committee will be composed of the heads of the five principal delegations, and the latter will include, in addition to the heads, four other delegates.
An adjournment will then be taken until November 15, in order to give the two committees an opportunity to meet and reconcile their opinions concerning the conference’s scope. It is the belief of most of the delegates that this can be accomplished by November 15, and reports prepared which may be used as a working basis, at least for the early deliberations. Public meetings of the conference will be held in the Continental Memorial Hall of Daughters of the American Revolution. It was at first proposed to use the Hall of America in the Pan-American Building, but it was found impossible to provide sufficient accommodation there for resident diplomats, the Cabinet, members of the Senate and the House, and the correspondents, besides the delegations. Two hundred and seventy of the thirteen hundred seats have been granted to newspaper men. Unique and complete working facilities have been provided for the delegates and the Press correspondents. ATTITUDE OF CHINA. ‘ MASTER OF OWN DESTINIES’’ Received Nov. 11, 5.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 10. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent interviewed Wellington Koo (China), who said: ‘There will be most uncompromising hostility to any proposal seeking to deprive us of the opportunity of remaining masters of our own destinies. The suggestion that we shall yield to some scheme of international control inspires us with the gravest suspicion.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1921, Page 5
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