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TWO CKNTS I THREE CENTS 1 FOVR CEOTS
In Greater New York I Within ZOO Mile? I Elaewbar?
Nations Urge Harding to Ex
Into Broad Association
3and Conference
of World Powers
Hirohito Is
Made Regent
Over Japan
Crown Prince Succeeds to
Duties of Emperor, Who
Announces That Illness
. Compels? His Retirement
Change Won't Alter
Armament Policy
New Ruler, 20 Years Old
and Liberal. Only Late?
ly Made Tour Abroad
TOKIO, Nov. 25. (By The Associated,
Press).?Crown Prince Hirohito has
been designated Regent of Japan. An
imperial rescript making the an?
nouncement vas issued by Emperor
Yoshihito yesterday afternoon. It read:
"We are unable to attend in per?
son to {he affairs of state, on ac?
count of protracted illness, and ac?
cordingly appoint Crown Prince
Hirohito Regent, with the approval
of the Council of Princes, the im?
perial family and the Privy Council?
lors."
The document bears the imperial
signature and that of the ? Crown
Prince and is signed also by Baron
Makiuo, Minister of the Imperial
Household; Premier Takahashi and the
Cabinet ministers.
Simultaneously a bulletin was issued
stating that the E?iperor's menta!
condition was such as to preclude his
further attention to state duties,
traceable to an affliction of hia in
jfhcy.'It added that there was no seri?
ous development in his physical con?
dition.
Speech and Nerves? Troubled
According to Dr. Ikebe, chief physi?
cian to Emperor Yoshihito, his condi?
tion has changed little since lt.st Oc?
tober. Restraint of speech and nervous
debility are declared by the physician
to be his chief ailments.
The Emperor continues the eccen?
tricities which have marked his condi?
tion, but Dr. Ikebe reports they are
not so frequent as formally. He re?
quires a-sistance only in mounting
stairs. His appetite does not show
signs of serious decline. While there
in no prospect of prompt recovery,
there is no reason to look for an ag?
gravation of his condition in the near
future.
The Emperor and Empress, it is ex?
pected, will pass the winter at Hayama,
removing to the Aoyarna Palace in
Tokio in the spring.
Changes in the make-up of the im?
perial household, including the retire?
ment of Prince Yamagata from his
position as chief of the Privy Council,
. ?re expected by the newspapers.
Will Not Affect Conference
From The Tribune'? Washington Bureau
\ WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.?When the
j doors of the Japanese delegation were
thrown open for a public discussion of
conference topics to-day Prince Toku
gawa, one of the delegates, appeared,
holding in his hand a paper announc?
ing the new regency in Japan.
, Gentlemen, I have come before you,"
?aid the prince, reading from the
paper, "to an ounce that in considera?
tion of his majesty the Emperor's in
ability ?to conduct in person the affairs
of state, owing to his long-continued
indisposition, his imperial highness the
Crown Prince has to-day (November
25) been constituted regent in accord?
ance with the provisions of the im?
perial constitution and the Imperial
House law.
"Now, gentlemen," continued, the
prince, "I am here to answer any ques
?w-b? regard to the regency."
Will the change in the govern?
ment's head have any effect on Japan's
attitude at t>e conference?" was
asket!
,"^onf in the least," the prince re?
plied. At any time that his majesty
nas recovered he may resume the head
oi the government. He is not seriously
( i". Not strong in his youth, he was so
?eply affected by the death of his
?ther ten years ago that his health
declined. As a loyal subject I most
sincerely hope his recovery will be
speedy."
WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 (By The
Associated PresaV?The announcement
irom Tokio of the regency of Hirohito
*<? expected in Japanese circles here,
as the fecent tour of the Crown Prince
'0 fcurope generally was understood to
I nave been the first sten in the court
?Rangement to give Hirohito the con- j
?;? c!?.i"e empire becauce of the con- !
tinued illness of the Emperor. This I
tour, which was quite extensive, was ?
?frangid in order that be ore taking up I
_ (Continued on pngo tfiroe)
Japan's Cabinet Votes
For 70 P.C. Naval Ratio j
rress. Sav* Council Also In-i
stru'tc?l Delegate? to Demand j
Scrapping Pacific Bases
' Prl?Kl?\ Nov- 25 (By The Associated,
?U>Xh~~A (ab'"et Council held yes-'
? il?,iu,.a"ordin?r to the newspapers,
"suited in a decision to instruct the
??*?*nese delegates to the Washington
t?rnere-nce t0 do theil' utmost to rrtftin
?.."," 70 Per cent ratio with regard to
| a*m armament.
It uppearK to have been the attitude
? tn,. ministers that leas than a 70 per I
' ??tin >'?, yuld be ?"sufficient for tne !
> ??tonal defense. j
?*?? d ?W\ Shty,bun" 8*y8 St ?,80l
strL ,Lded ,by the ?Wert to In
1 ,i,,luma,1!lln? ??pMc fortifica-!
*?? k g,n* thflt thpse fortifications ,
. ,Bp?m, \ considered apart from the!
1,0 ,"" of n?val .v.(|,,1<.ti?n I
1,000 Cripples Storm Hospital
Seeking Aid From Dr. Lorenz
Police Reserves Called as Lame in Wheel Chairs and
on Crutches Overflow Street; 115 Examined and
One Operated On; Expert May Slay Indefinitely
More than 1,000 cripples and their
friends besieged the Hospital for Joint
Diseases yesterday seeking to gain the
i attention of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, Aus
i trian expert i in orthopedic bloodless
surgery, and it was intimated that if
the interest in his work was main
; tained Dr. Lorenz might remain on
j this side of the Atlantic indefinitely.
| He said he was shocked at the amount
of deformity in New York.
Police reserves were called out to
cope with the crowd. Inside the hos?
pital nurses and internes had to keep
the waiting line in check as Dr. Lorenz
j moved from one cubicle to another.
By 1 o'clock 115 had been examined
! and one operation performed. The re
! maining 90 per cent of the crowd was
?turned away. The clinics will continue
each morning until all have had a
chance to be examined. Many times
during the morning Dr. Lorenz drew
the enveloping sheet from a childish
form and gasped at what he saw, ac?
customed as he is to this form of suf?
fering.
"In all my career as a surgeon 3
never have seen such distress of thi:
?character as at the Hf.rlem Hospita
j to-day," was his comment at the enc
of the morning. "Spinal trouble, su
? V
I perinduced by infantile paralysis in
i most cases, appears to be ten times
more prevalent in America than in all
the rest of the world. I am appalled
j at the' situation. The last infantile
paralysis epidemic showed three times
' as many casualties here as in Europe.
. I cannot explain it. Relief for the
sufferers is problematical because of
the destructiveness of the infection.
Where tissue has been destroyed there
can be no cure. All wc can do is to
dispose the muscular force remaining
in the best possible way. It would take
one operator six months to perform
all the operations I have advised from
my examinations this morning.
The clinic was scheduled to open at
9 o'clock. At 4 a. m. a knock was heard
on the doer and a trembling voice
begged admission. The night at?
tendant looked outside and found a
cripple on his-hands and knees. He
was assigned to the first of the twenty
rooms where Dr. Lorenz makes his ex?
aminations, and when, after five hours'
wait, his turn came, treatment was
prescribed ior him, to be followed by
an operation if unsuccessful.
Outside the crowd kept increasing in
volume all morning. Old and young,
on crutches, in wheel chairs, in auto?
mobiles, hobbling along as best thejj
could with the help of relatives.
Children stumbled along in braces df,
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Enright Sails
To-day to Tour
South America
Inspector Boettler Is Re?
tired on $2,450 Pension;
Commissioner's Vacation
Will Last for Month
Resignation Is Rumored
Name of 'Father John' Daly
Persistently Mentioned
as Official's Successor
Police Commissioner Enright sails
to-day for a month's vacation, during
which he will tour South America
Coincident with the announcement of
the Commissioner's vacation came the
information that one of his most trust?
ed aids, Inspector William P. Boettlor,
had been retired from the department
on a pension "of $2,450 a year.
For months before Mayor Hylan was
re-elected it was rumored that, regard?
less of the outcome of the election,
Enright was to retire or to be forced
to retire as Police Commissioner. The
first name mentioned as his successor
was Frederick A. Wallis, ex-Deputy
Police Commissioner, ex-Immigration
Commissioner and the manager of
Mayor Hylan's recent campaign. More
recently and more persistently the name
of "Father John" Daly, former Chief
Inspector and now Deputy Commis?
sioner, has been mentioned as Enright's
successor.
It is an unwritten rule pi the Police
Department that an official who con?
templates retirement and so advises
the Commissioner is_ inevitably grant?
ed that period of vacation which would
be. his if .he remained in the depart?
ment another year.
At the "citizerrs' committee" dinner
given to Enright on Tuesday night to
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his appointment as a policeman Mr.
Enright hinted at a possible retirement
from the Police Department when he
said: , *
"It's a wonderful dream, and I'm
afraid that shortly I will be, awakened
to* find myself back in uniform."
Commissioner Enright has taken
many vacations. Most of them have
been week-ends at the seashore, .but he
has had several lay-offs of considerable
length. His first' was his honeymoon,
his second was a trip to the Panama
Canal Zone, where bje met President.
Harding.
No less puzzling than the Commis?
sioner's suddenly announced vacation
plans is the announcement that In
! spector Boettler had decided to quit
! the department. Boettler has been a
i policeman twenty-six years. He was
made a captain in November, 1908, and
an,inspector by Commissioner Bingham
in 1909. In 1910 Commissioner Baker
reduced him to a captaincy, but hi 1916
he was reinstated by Commissioner
Arthur Woods'.
His .career was uneventful, until the
scandal involving Inspector Dominick
Henry ? developed. ' He w*s assigned *to
an obscure Brooklyn district at the
tinte and was suddenly ?4evated to the
most .important . assignment in the
Board of Inspectors by being sent to
the Broadway district. -He1 remained
there until recently.
At the time the'Meyer committee was
hitting its stride, Commissioner En?
right suddenly announced the transfer
of Boettler to Queens. The move
startled Broadway and those at Head?
quarters. Boettler has been regarded
as a real Enright favorite, as popular
with the head of the department as
Chief Inspector Lahey.
Efforts last night to get Inspector
Boettler or the Commissioner to af?
firm or deny the current report that
they were to be together on the tour
of South America nroyed unavailing.
?
| THE PLAZA?Sunday Dinner Musicales
j in the new Terrace Restaurant. Special
1 dinner. 16.00 per cover/-?Advt.
Irish Allegiance
Issue Threatens
War's Renewal
Craig Firm After Meeting
Premier and Returns to
Report to Parliament;
Feiners Won't Have King
Hope in Week-End Parleys
Belfast Situation Causes
Deep Concern; "Serious
Conflagration" Is Feared!
From The Tribune's European Bureau ;
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Nov. 25.?The final stage
of the Irish negotiations came into
sight to-day as Sir James Craig, the
Ulster Premier, and Prime Minister
Lloyd George met in Downing Street,
came to grips with the crisis and drew
up a joint statement which Sir James
will read to the Northern Irish Par?
liament on Tuesday. This statement, it
is understood, contains the information
that the Sinn Feiners have refused to
admit allegiance to the- British crown,
a concession on. which Ulster insists be?
fore it will consider entering an all
Irish parliament, and which Lloyd
George regards as paramount.
The formulation of a statement
which is to be made public was adopted
as a result of the Ulstermen's protest
against the secrecy of the negotiations
and as an alternative to the publication
of the correspondence between the gov?
ernment and the Sinn Feiners which
the Ulstermen sought. Sir James de?
parted for Belfast with the statement
this evening.
Precarious Stage of Parley
The Irish negotiations were regarded
as having reached a very prt'various
stage, but though Sir James looked
grave when he entered the Prime Min?
ister's offices this morning, he seemed
more cheerful as he departed at the
end of an hour's conversation.
The situation in Belfast had a most
important influence on to-day's dis?
cussions. From the time of the bomb?
ing of a streetcar on one of Belfast's
leading thoroughfares last night, the
second outrage of its kind within a
week, until the early hours of this
morning, mesagres flashed back and
forth between Belfast and London.
The Sinn Feiners disavow the recent
outrages in the Northern Irish capital
and describe them as unauthorized re
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Chinese Ask
AU Legal and
Postal Rights
Conference Members Ex?
press "Sympathy" for
Republic's Desire to
Regulate Own Affairs
Committee to Act
On New Demands
Decides on Inquiry Into
Conditions Complained
Of as an Initial Step
By Thomas Steep
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.?Momen?
tous precedents were set by the con?
ference committee on Pacific and Far
Eastern questions to-day looking
toward the restoration of China's
sovereignty. Two proposals presented
by the Chinese delegates for the re?
moval of foreign control which China
considers an infringement of her ad?
ministrative autonomy were received
"with sympathy" by ' all the powers,
including Japan. M
Next to foreign control of her cus?
toms, Dr. Wang Chung Hui, chief
justice of the Supreme Court of
China, declared the most serious ob?
stacle to China's recovery from bank?
ruptcy and revolutionary chaos is the
exercise by the powers of what is
known as extraterritoriality by which
foreign laws in given areas are sub?
stituted for Chinese laws. He askec
that the system be abolished and thai
the Chinese judiciary be extendec
throughout the republic without hin^
drance.
The committee is expected to-mor
row to vote to send a commission 01
jurists to China to investigate and re
port to the governments repr?sent?e
at the conference on the advisability
of granting the request of the Chinese
Senator Lodge is chairman of the sub
committee which will frame the r?solu
tion.
Dr. Wellington Koo, of the Chines<
delegation to the conference, declaret
to-day he planned to bring the Shan
tung question and the "twenty-one de
mands" treaty before the Far Fasten
Committee at an early date. Dr. Ko<
said China would ask for complet*
abrogation of the treaty and the un
conditional return of Shantung.
Postal Control Requested
Dr. Alfred Sze, the Chinese Minister
proposed at to-day's session that for
eign postal systems in China be abol
ished. Ho held not only that the in
vasion of foreign postal systems con
stitute a violation of China's territoria
integrity, but that the existence 0
postofficcs under foreign flags are no
based on any treaty or other lega
rights. He said that Japan now main
tains in China 124 postoffices, Franc
thirteen, Great Britain twelve and th
United States one.
Particular antipathy is felt by th
Chinese against the Japanese systen
if was charged, because Japanese mer
chants use the mails throughout Man
churia and the treaty ports for the dis
tribution of morphine, cocaine an
opium designed to degenerate the Chi
nese inhabitants and to weaken thei
resistance to foreign control.
Both proposals were discussed a
length before the Pacific and Far Easi
ern committee. When it was officiall
announced that they had been referre
to a sub-committee for the purpose c
working out practicable plans it wa
indicated that both of the Chinese d(
mands, which are considered vital eh
ments in the solution of China's pro!
lems, had been received sympathet
cally. On the part of the Unite
States, it was said, no objection woui
be offered to giving China the f?lle.1
and most unhampered opportunity fc
self-development. Significance was a
tached to Japan's attitude. Masans
Hanihara, Japanese Vice-Minister (
Foreign Affairs, asserted Japan woul
heartily support any plan which sougl
the elimination of foreign postoffic?
and extraterritoriality.
"Japan, perhaps more than any oth?
nation, sympathizes with China in th
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2,200 Policewomen to Guard
Children; May Use Nightsticks
Two thousand two hundred women in
uniform will report for police duty in
this city at 8 a. m. Monday, according
to an announcement made yesterday by
John F. Dwyer, former inspector in
charge of the Police Reserves. The
women are members of the Police Re?
serves. They will be stationed at street
crossings near schools.
They were ordered out by Rodman
Wanamaker, Special Deputy -Police'
Commissioner in charge of the Police
Reserves. The reason given for calling
on them was that the strike of milk
drivers had made demands on the
police force that it was difficult to find
policemen to station at school cross?
ings at the hours when children are
going to school or returning to their
homes.
At first the plan was to call upon the
male members of the Police Reserves
for school crossing duty, but it was
found that a'large proportion of them
felt that they could not neglect their
business at this time unless the peace
and order of the community was threat?
ened. Consequently the order was
passed along to the woman, and it is
said that 2,200 of them have promised
to report for duty.
They will wear blue uniforms, a blue
overseas cap, a black Sam Browne belt,
black leggings and black shoes. They
will have full police authority and are
authorized to direct traffic, serve sum?
monses, make arrests, stop runaways
and perform the duty of policemen.
If it is found that drivers fail to
accord to them the same respect re?
ceived by uniformed members of the
force on similar duty, nightsticks will
be issued and the women will be in?
structed to use them to enforce their
authority when necessary.
The women of the Police Reserves
have been studying traffic regulations
and are said to know as much about
them as the patrolmen ordinarily as?
signed to duty at school cro?sings.
The women will take their places at
school crossings at 8 a. m. and remain
until 9:16 a. m. They will return to
their posts at 12 noon and remain until
after 1 p. m. They will be on duty*
again from 3 p. m. to 3:80 d. m.
<
Rriand Sails;
Defends Pact
With Turks
Asserts French Agreement
With the Kemalists Was
Prepared and Signed
at London Conference
Declares Curzon's
Attack Unjustified
Says Action Was to Bring
Peace ; Leaves U. S. With
High Hopes in Parley
Aristide Briand, the French Premier,
departed for France yesterday on the
French liner Paris. His decision of
Thursday night at the Lotos Club to
make no reply to Lord Curzon's com?
ment upon France's attitude weakened
just before the Paris sailed and he re?
plied in defense of the separate agree?
ment France had entered into with the
Turkish nationalist government ? the
understanding in which France was
charged by the British Foreign Min?
ister as "having stolen ? march" on
her allies.
Until an hour or two before the
Paris left port M. Briand persistently
had put aside the issue, saying that
he could not reply until he had before
him an authentic and complete copy
of Lord Curzon's utterances.
Denies It.Is a Treaty
His resolve changed, however, and
he suyprised his interviewers by giv?
ing oat at the last moment a state?
ment concerning the rights of France
in making her own agreements in Asia
Minor. M. Briand said:
"First, it is not a treaty. It is an
agreement between the Angoran gov?
ernment and us for the settlement of j
special questions concerning the fron- j
tier of Syria and Cilicia, the exchange !
of prisoners and the cessation of hos?
tilities which, since the war, have cost I
France several thousand killed and j
which compelled us to keep in these |
distant regions an army of 70,000 men. j
"It was an intolerable burden for !
which the parliament would no longer ;
assume responsibility and I am sur- i
prised that we should be reproached? !
in the very moment that we are asked ;
to reduce our standing army?for,, an ?
agreement which has as a result the pre- I
vention of new bloodshed and which!
permits us to reduce by half our army j
in the Orient.
"I am still more surprised that there |
should be any astonishment at this j
agreement. It was prepared and signed ?
in London, in the course of conference j
which, on the initiative of England, the ?
representatives of Angora had been !
asked to attend. We gave notice to our j
allies that we had .decided to sign a ?
special agreement about our private
affairs. The Italians did the same.
Unfortunately, these agreements were
not at once ratified by the Angora as?
sembly, but the text of them was com?
municated to all Allied governments,
including England.
Says It Can Ouly Help Peace
?Later, with several modifications
which did not fundamentally change it,
this agreement was again examined
and finally ratified by the great Turk?
ish assembly. It can only aid in the
establishment of a general peace of
which all the conditions are reserved,
and will soon, I hope, form the object
of a complete negotiation, which this
time may result in an equitable and
definite peace in the Orient.
"The British government is well
aware that we are all ready, in agree?
ment with England and our ether allies
to seize the propitious moment to ob?
tain peace."
M. Briand dismissed the Oriental af?
fairs of France with the issuance of
the statement. Discussion of it was
confined to his written words, and the
subject was disposed of as abruptly
as it had been sprung.
The Premier was cheerful, his laugh?
ter and rapid flow of speech beine* ap?
parently as endless as hi? optimism
for the success of the Washington con?
ference. In the suite de luxe crowd?
ed to the doors with visitors, he moved
about with the delight of a schoolboy
having his first big birthday party.
Some one remarked that the room
was too crowded, but M. Briand said
something about the more the better
and that he was glad to deceive his
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?
Twenty families Flee
Early Morning Blaze
Policeman Discovers Fire in
Henry Street Tenement ;
One Woman Injured
Fire was discovered in the basement
of a five story tenement .house at 100
Henry Street at an early hour this
morning and a passing patrolman, at?
tached to the Oak Street station, turned
in an alarm.
He returned to the house, which was
slowly filling with smoke, and roused
the tenants. Twenty families rushed
to the street lightly clad. Mrs. Ger?
trude Kinehouse, twenty-six years old,
who lived on the top floor of the build?
ing, made her way to the roof. In
jumping from there to the roof of the
adjoining building, which is lower by
several feet, she received minor in?
juries.
Firemen, under Deputy Fire Chief
Henry Helms succeeded in confining
the blaze {p the basement of the build?
ing. The damage has been estimated
at $1,000.
-?
When yon think of Writing',
think of Whitine. ?Ad?*.
Conference Verdict on France
To Silence Attacks, Says Briand
j? --
Carries Home From America a Vote of Confidence
From Seven Nations, He Asserts, Ending "Stupid
Accusations of Imperialism and Militarism"
By Stephane Lauzanne
Editor in Chief of "Le Matin" '
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune ln?.
As we rushed through the Pennsyl?
vania plains in our Pullman car the
day before yesterday, I said to Pre?
mier Briand:
"You have just spent three weeks in
this country. You have shared its life.
You have felt its pulse. What picture
has it left in your heart? What im?
pressions are you taking back with
you?"
"I am taking back with me," he re?
plied, "the impression of a country
that is tremendously young in thought
and heart and action. I carry back
with me the impression of a country
that is only for the young. Here every
possibility is open to a human being,
provided he has youth. He lands here,
and his hands have scarcely grasped
his tools before he has the. feeling
that he can make a fortune. Nothing
is fixed; nothing is crystalized, as in
our old Europe. All roads are open to
every energy, and although millions
of men are taking them, there is still
room left for millions more. On those
roads every one is striving, every one
is working, every one is tense, and
quite a considerable number succeed.
But when their fortune is made those
feverish pedestrians are quite willing
t? leave the sidewalk on which they
took their steps and eagerly turn their
faces toward the shores of the Old
World, especially toward France. It
is there they go to spend what they
have earned through their strength of
will and energy. They go there to re?
lax. When they leave their factory
France becomes their drawing room.
They go there to taste of the joys of
the intellect, to satisfy their taste in
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Tentative Cut
In Allied Debt
Stirs Congress
Compromise on 50% Basis
Is Said To Be Proposal,
Conditioned on Success
of Armament Conference
Financiers Urge Solution
Senate Expected to Demand
Check on Power Granted
Mellon in Refunding Bill
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 25.?Congres?
sional Washington was decidedly
stirred to-day by the published reports
that one of the results of the gathering
of nations at the arms conference may
be an informal agreement for compro?
mising the $11,000,000,000 of war debis
to the United States.
The rumor, which aroused private
comment, particularly among members
of the Finance committees of both
houses, was that unofficial discussions
among representatives of the debtor
countries, just within earshot of the
Administration, centered about a com?
promise calling for 50 per cent pay?
ments, provided the armaments con
feience is entirely successful. Pre?
mier Briand returned to France, ac?
cording to report, with a semi-under?
standing that formal proposals along
these lipes will be the basis for the
calling of another international con?
ference.
The behind-the-scenes conferences,
it was stated, are predicated upon the
contention, concurred in by some
American financiers, that there can be
no permanent economic or business re?
covery until the world is stabilized
financially through elimination of the
tremendous debt burdens.
Additional interest was lent the re?
port by the return to New York of
Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly head of
the National City Bank, who has been
studying economic and financial condi?
tions in Europe for the last five
months. His announcement that he
will offer a possible solution of the
inter-Allied debt problem next week
caused at least a bit of speculation on
Capitol Hill.
The attention drawn to the two re?
ports in Congressional circles assures
at least that when the bill providing
for a commission to arrange refunding
of the war debts comes up in the Sen?
ate in the regular session beginning
next month the discussion will come
closer to clearing the question than
did the debate in the House before
that body passed the measure.
It is more than probable that the
Senate will- decide to restrict the
blanket authority placed in the re
finding commission by the House bill.
French Oppose
Asking Berlin
To Conference
White House Suggestion Giv?
en Chilly Reception at Del?
egation Headquarters; As?
surances Held Worthless
View Supported by Italy
Ratification by Germany of
Parley's Agreements Prob?
ably Would Be Accepted
By Boyden Sparkes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.?The sug?
gestion, voiced at the White House to?
day, that Germany might be invited
to participate in the final phases of
the disarmament conference was coldly
received at the headquarters of the
French delegation.
Reactions obtained there were nec?
essarily unofficial. M. Briand is still
close to American shores and none of
the other delegates cared to assume the
function of spokesman so soon. But
there is no doubt among them regard?
ing the opinion entertained by Rene
Viviani. who now is head of the French
delegation.
There are two matters that might
be submitted to Germany and other
smaller nations of Europe that might
be invited to participate in the con?
ference. For one thing they might be
asked to ratify an agreement about
submarines. For another their aid
could be sought for the purpose of ef
ting some degree of land disarmament.
No Credit in Assurances
Premier Briand, in his eloquent
statement of the reasons which impel
France to maintain a large army,
stressed the dangers confronting his
country from a vengeful Germany and
a chaotic Russia. Some of the French
to-day were inclined to feel that the
only purpose back of any plan to bring
Germany to the conference would be
to get Teutonic assurances of pacific
intentions.
Such assurances, they say, would be
utterly unimportant. They say that
one of the principal reasons for the
maintenance .of a powerful army by
France is that only the threat of in?
vasion will 'keep the Germans to the
terms of the agreement they signed
at Versailles.
The German government in its pres?
ent form is none too secure, in the
opinion of some of thfe French, and
the instant the French army no longer
existed there would come a revolu?
tion that might restore the Hohen
zollerns to power. And then, ask the
French, what about reparations?
If it should be the intention of the
American government to seek ratifica?
tions of any agreement reached at the
conference, through diplomatic chan?
nels, the French probably would have
(Continuad en next pas?)
British Press Sees Conference
Menaced by Japan's Attitude
LONDON, Nov. 25 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?The weekly reviews
again comment at great length on the
Washington conference, but with far
less confidence than a week ago. Their
misgivings are based mainly on what
is considered the doubtful attitude of
Japan and France.
Lord Northcliffe's demand for a de?
nunciation of the Anglo-Japanese treaty
is' criticized in some of the journals,
but mainly on the ground that the
alliance ought not to be sacrificed
merely to please the United States, but
because it stands in the way of the suc?
cess of the conference. But even the
?eviews objecting to the Northcliffe
method agree that the alliance should
be got rid of.
"The Spectator" considers Japan's
attitude disappointing, and that unless
Japan can be brought to a change of
mind there is grave fear that the con?
ference will prove a fiasco. This news?
paper declares plainly that unless
Japan agrees to a naval sacrifice the
United States and Great Britain must
deal with the Pacific question by them?
selves. "The Spectator" indorses Lord
Northcliffe's suggestion that Singapore
and Hong Kong should be placed under
the disposition of the United States if
needed.
"The Saturday Review" also says the
Anglo-Japanese pact should not go be?
cause of American pressure, but be?
cause, on its merits, it is a failure.
"The Weekly Nation," admitting that
the success of the conference with re?
gard to China depends on whether the
British government is ready to drop
the Japanese alliance, agrees with "The
Statesman."
"The Outlook" says Japan can in?
dubitably destroy the conference and
sees reasons to fear she may do so. It
adds that upon the conference depends
the fate of the world and that "we are
confronted for the first time in history
with a situation in which a non-white
race hold3 in its hands the destinies
of all the white peoples."
Therefore, "The Outlook" says, the
British delegates mast use all their in?
fluence with Japan to make the confer?
ence a success, i ?%,
President's
Plan Held
Aid to Peace
Prominent Delegates Pro?
pose Union Along Lines
Outlined by Executive
in Speeches in Campaign
Approval of Small
Nations Is Sought
Reported That Germany
May Be Invited to Later
Gatherings of Parley
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.?The
Conference on the Limitation of Ar
-mament is to be extended and ex?
panded into the association of na?
tions which President Harding
promised the voters during his cam?
paign speeches last year. Not only
does President Harding himself con?
fidently expect this, it was made
known at the White House to-day,
but the proposal has been made to
him definitely by some of the im?
portant delegates representing the
larger powers at the conference.
The first step, it was learned, will
be that certain nations of the world,
not represented at the conference,
will be asked to approve the agree?
ments reached at the present con?
ference. The second will be to make
meetings of the conference annual.
Some of the nations not now repre?
sented probably will be asked to at?
tend the present conference before
it concludes. It was made known
that Germany probably would be one
of these.
May Bring Cut in Armies
While there is no such official
basis for this as there is for all the
foregoing statements, it is the belief
of some of the delegates that the
purpose of asking Germany is to get
her to take some steps which will
relieve the French apprehension with
regard to future attacks, thus clear?
ing the way to a real reduction in
the French army. Such an agree?
ment, if possible, might lead directly
to the same sharp reducton in land
forces which is practically agreed
upon with regard to naval for?as.
The Harding association of nations,
as it might be termed to differentiate
it in the popular mind from the Wil?
son League of Nations, probably will
have no constitution. Certainly there
will be nothing that would resemble
Article X?no written promise to guar?
antee the territorial integrity of all the
members.
Written Covenants^ Unlikely
President Harding is not so much in?
terested in written covenants solemn?
ly approved by the various govern?
ments. He thinks that nations are
very much like individuals, and his
view on that is that a man who would
lief and break promises which he had
made verbally would just as cheerfully
perjure himself or break a solemn
treaty if he thought it was to his in?
terest to do so.
There is no element of surprise in
the fact that President Harding de?
sires an association of nations to grow
out of this armament limitation con?
ference. A dispatch from the writer in
The Tribune of August 1 last mad*
this clear and pointed out that ir?
working this out the President wouM
be carrying out his campaign pledgog
Mr. Harding's idea of an association o.
nations and the idea of calling the na-.
tions to meet in Washington with *
view to shaping such an association
were outlined in The Tribune's Wash?
ington dispatches a few days before
the President was inaugurated, Mr.
j Harding having made his views known
to some of his advisers at that. time.
Favored by Other Powers
The really important development is
that the other powers, through infor?
mal conversations by their representa?
tives with President Harding, are anx?
ious for a permanent association of na?
tions to grow out of the present con?
ference. Care was taken at the White
House to make clear that these sugges?
tions had been made informally, and
not officially, but, the proposals havinj
been enthusiastically accepted by Mr.
Harding, the action at once becomes,
from a diplomatic as well as a practical
standpoint, highly important.
President Harding is known to be
extremely enthusiastic about the work
of the conference so far. He is de?
lighted with the accomplishments al?
ready attained. More than he had
expected has been accomplished *t
the present moment, and he is opti?
mistic that much more will be brought
I about.
L The President has not envolved any
very detailed and definite pl*n fox
his association of nations. Hi? TMW
now, as it was during the campeqpi
and has been since his election. It
that no hard and fast program which
might be found impossible should be
set up. For instance, he is not clear
now as to whether an international
court could be established, though per?
sonally he has favored the idea and
some of his closest advisers, ?notably
former Senator EHhu Root,. nf> one