THE NEW TREATIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1922, Page 5

THE NEW TREATIES.

TO GO BEFORE SENATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. / \ New York. Feb. 8. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that it is expected President Harding will send the treaties to the Senate on Friday. It is not known whether he will introduce them personally or with a message. It is understood that he sTrenuously opposes the movement which is afoot to add a reservation to the Pacific pact. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Borah is expected to ask for a reservation specifically exempting the United States from any obligation to use force of any kind.

President Harding will urge speedy action >by the committee, which is expected to report within ten days or a fortnight.

The American delegates are preparing a report on the work of tb r> conference wlfieh President Harding will send to the Senate. It is understood that Senator Underwood is calling a conference of Democratic Senators for the purpose and urging the ratification of the measure.

CHINESE CABINET APPROVES. Washington, Feb. 8. A cable from Peking states that the Chinese Cabinet has approved the two treaties to which China is a signatory. The President will issue a mandate concluding the ratification. BRITISH NAVAL RECRUITING. London, Feb. 7. Owing to the Washington decisions recruiting for the navy and marines has been stopped except for boy seamen limited to 40 weekly. The Admiralty is offering free discharges to 1500 stokers. THE JAPANESE VIEWPOINT. Tokio, Feb. 8. The Premier. Viscount Takahashi, addressing the House of Peers,, declared that the Imperial Government did not pretend that the Washington Conference was an unqualified success viewed 1 ! from the individual standpoint. It did believe that, the present agreement’s formed the first step towards the realisation of a real and lasting peace. Such agreements would grow in future, even to an understanding for the total abolition of defence equipments. Count Uehida gave assurances regarding the evacuation of Japanese troops from Siberia when the negotiations with China were completed. The warships now under construction and to be scrapped included the battleships Kaga, Kiji, Owari and Tosa, and the battlecruisers Atago, Akagi, Ainagi and Takao.