FAR EAST QUESTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1921, Page 5

FAR EAST QUESTIONS.

PROGRESS AT WASHINGTON. AMERICA AND THE TREATIES. By Telegraph.—Frees Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 27, 9.20 p.m. Washington, Dee. 27. Matters in the Far Eastern section of the Conference are not standing still while attention is being focussed on naval limitation. Besides Chinese and Japanese conversations various subcommittees are preparing recommendations regarding tariff ready for the full Conference. It is understood China will not be allowed the full increase asked for. Other matters are progressing, and it is predicted that once naval matters have been decided the other questions will be settled shortly. It was stated to-night that the treaties will not be placed before the Senate until the Conference is finished, but the opposition there is weakening. Senator Underwood, the Democratic leader, and an American delegate, nas advised that they will not be made a party to the question, at the coming elections of the Congress and the Senate. The Democrats have decided to refrain from criticism, and thus party men on both sides have been counted as supporting the treaties, the only opposition coming from a small group of irreconcilab’les. The real, fact of the matter is that Senators having an ear to the ground realised that the Conference has aroused public opinion, demanding ratification of any instruments having for their object the reduction of the cost of armaments and making toward* peace.