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questions as maintaining tho open door
to all nations.
Ai told in The Tribune this morning,
twt Japanese are awaiting an answer
t? their cables to Tokio following last
?light's meeting of the Big Three?
Hashes, Balfour and Kato, The deci?
sions involved do not pertain to the
naval ratio at ail. but to other issues,
pftrtiealaiiy fortification of the islands
in the Far East and Shantung. There
will b? no formal decision given on the
ratio or anything else, however, until
all other questions of importance to
Japan are also ready for decision.
Tho next meeting of the Big Throe
will be held, it was learned, shortly
after the answers from Tokio, sent last
night, are received bv Baron Kato.
This meeting probably will be speedily j
followed by another mooting of the full
conference.
(?ompers Warns Parley
To End Causes of War
?Varal Holiday Will Be Magnifi- j
cent Feat, but Settle the1
Pacific Problem, He Says \
WASHINGTON. Dee. 3 (By The As- ?
soeiated Press). ? Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation i
of Labor, discussing the armament con?
ference in a statement to-night, de?
clared an agreement on limitation of
naval armament would be "a magnifi?
cent achievement," but if the confer?
ence stop? there it cannot be said to
have succeeded.
"If tbo great powers agree to the
American program for limitation and
reduction of navai armament it will be
a magnificent achievement of tremen?
dous importance and significance," said
Mr. Gompers. "But if the conference
stops with the naval program it can?
not be said to have succeeded. That
would be but a beginning of success."
The Labor Federation leader, who is
a member of the advisory committee
to the American delegation and or?
ganizer and honorary chairman of the
unofficial general committee on limita?
tion of armament, went on to say that
"every person who sincerely looks for
an end of wars must hope with the
deepest fervor that the conference will
fo beyond naval limitation and strike
ard and true at the causes of war."
"To destroy sixty-six ships and to
fail on the Far Eastern and Pacific
problems," he asserted, "would be a
transient victory in the shadow of dis?
aster. The conference must go on to
the deeper questions upon which the
issue pf continued peace really hangs."
Dr. Huang Says China Is
Unit on Foreign Issues
Wrotn The Tribune's Washington Bureau \
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.?The real j
unity of China, in spite of all tempo- j
rary political divisions, and the com- i
p?ete accord of the Chin?se people in ;
foreign questions were asserted and
illustrated to-day by Dr. Feng Hua I
Huang, secretary of staff to the Chi- ?
nese delegation to the cqni'erence, at
the international forum held at the
National Council for the Limitation of j
Armaments.
The origin of the whole Shantung !
difficulty, according to Dr. Huang, was !
the murder o? two German mission- ?
aries and the insistence of Germany i
xipon partial control of the province. '
"Germany never demanded that China j
give up her sovereignty," said Dr.
jl'.iang. "When Japan now offers to ?
give up the rights of sovereignty in \
Shantung for the sake ox retaining
economic rights she gives up some?
thing she never possessed in order to j
secure something to which she is not i
entitled." ?
Enver Pasha Forms Red I
Army to Invade Anatolia
.' .
Rallying Moslems in Caucasus
for Raid on Turk Nation- i
alist Government
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3 (By The '<
Associated Press).?The fact that En- '
ver Pasha, notorious young Turk lead- j
er, is conducting Bolshevist agitation I
in the Caucasus is confirmed, according j
to reports received by foreign repre- '??
sentatives at Tiflis. He is said to have ?
acquired considerable popularity among ?
the Moslems in that region.
According to these reports, an army I
is being organised in the northern
Caucasus, with the support of Bolshe- j
vjki in that region, for tho purpose of ?
marching into Anatolia, overthrowing !
the Turkish Nationalist government of i
Mustapha Kemal Pasha and proclaim- j
ing a Soviet dictatorship. Enver Paaha i
is stud to have obtained the co-opera-1
tlon of Djemal Pasha, commander of i
Turkish forces in Syria, former Gover- \
nor of Palestine, who, contrary to re-1
cent reports of his assassination at j
Kabul, was seen recently in Daghetstp.n. j
Reports reaching here indicate that j
Nationalist officials at Angora are much |
disturbed over the reappearance ?f ?
Enver Pastea and other Unionists in the ;
proximity of the Turkish frontier.
The Turkish Nationalist envoy at
Moscow, it is reported, has remon?
strated with the Soviet"government, de?
manding the expulsion of Enver Pasha
and his followers from the Caucasus.
i . ??
900 More Americans
Leave Rhine for Home
?Quit Coblenz to Tune of Old
German Waltz; Ship to
Bring 500 War Dead
COBLENZ, Dec. 3 (By The Associated
Press).?To the tune of "Stolsenfels on
the Rhine,1* an old German waits,
played by a lone cornetist, a troop train
with 900 Americans, homeward bound,
left here to-day for Antwerp, whence
the men will sail Sunday. The famous
Stolsenfels Castle, near Coblenz, has
been one of the nearby resorts popular
with the soldiers,
The vessel on which the Americans
will sail will carry the bodies of 600
Americans from France and several car?
loads of Christmas presents from sol?
diers who remain with the American
Army of Occupation to relatives and
friends at horn?.
Eight hundred of the soldiers are re?
turning as casuals; they are accom?
panied by ten officers. Fifteen general
prisoners are with the party, while a
number of soldiers, who missed las,))
week's train, are under guard. The
passenger list also will include fifteen
soldiers' wives, who married the Ameri?
cans in the Rhineland, and seven ex
service men who have been in France.
Just before the train departed a
flatter of excitement was caused when
the German police chased 100 frau.etns
out of the railroad yards, denying them
the privilege of saying goodby and
delivering bouquets, cakes and various
packages to the departing soldiers.
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Non-Moslems Fleeing From
Cil?cia Are Halted at Border
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3.? The
emigration of non-Moslems from Cui?
da, which has been in full swing in
anticipation of the French withdrawal
following the conclusion of the Fran?
co-Turkish nationalist agreement, has
been suspended owing to refusals from
?Smyrna, Cyprus and Egypt to receive
any refugees.
Repcrts received here declare tho
panic is ho great the French are not
able to control the situation, hiore than
EO.i'OO refugees having been driven
toward the coust in fear of massacre
at the hands of Turkish bands when
tbet French withdraw.
Optimists Win
111 Conference,
Is British View
American Diplomacy,Frank,
Friemlly and Simple, Is
Scoring Its First World
Wide Victory, Says Wilson
Balfour Visits New York
Expected to Make Vigorous
Fight Agaiust Submarines
at Next Plenary Session
By P. W. Wilson
For years American correspondent of
"The London Daily News" and former
Member of Parliament.
CopyrltrM, ISSI, New fork Tribun? lno.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.---History is
now in the making and the progress
is rapid. For once the pessimists,
who were many, have been routed by
\ the optimists, who were few, and so
assured are the prospects of the con?
ference that Mr. Balfour, the chief
1 British delegate, has left the scene of
! action for several days and will visit
New York. There may be slips be
! tween the cup and the lir, but the
atmosphere is full of hope. What
i Bismarck called the imponderablos?
those factors which cannot be precise?
ly defined?are thrown into the right
scale. The diplomacy of the United
States, frank, friendly and simple, is
winning its first world-wide victory.
Between this country, Britain and
Japan a provisional agreement has
been reached over their respective
navies, based on the American
formula, 5-5-3. This provisional
agreement is subject to certain hith?
erto undisclosed conditions, possibly
affecting naval bases, the battleship
Mutsu and the technical points arising
out of a naval hoiidsy lasting for ten
years. It is also understood that Mr.
Balfour is still pressing for the total
abolition of submarines, on which sub?
ject be may address the wholo con?
ference at a plenary session.
Sees Menace to Neutrals
Mr. Balfour is unconvinced that sub?
marines assist the smaller powers.
Such powers tre often neutral, and it
is from submarines that neutral ship?
ping suffers so severely. Mr. Balfour's
further argument is held to be that
submarines cannot bo used without be?
ing abused. They cannot capture mer?
chantmen and bring them to a prize
court, but can only sink these ships at
sight, without making any provision
cither for passengers or crew.
Between submarines and aeroplanes
Mr. Balfour draws a clear distinction.
He admits that in time of war aero?
planes may drop bombs on peaceful
cities and that these bombs may con?
tain poison gas. But the aeroplane
has a commercial value in time of
peace and it cannot be outlawed. Nor
san the progress of chemical manu?
facture be arrested merely because the
same plant may be used either to pro?
duce perfumes O? to produce poisons.
The submarine, on the other hand, has
no commercial value. It is built for
war, and only for war.
In Mr. Balfour's opinion, therefore, a
prohibition of submarines would pro
vent their rapid construction and use
even after hostilities had broken out,
because no crews would be practiced in
handling the underwater boats. When,
therefore, a plenary session is held to
receive the reports of the committee
on naval disarmament a strong pro?
test against the continued use of sub?
marines may be expected from the
British delegates.
Two Points Still Unsettled
In the mean time the provisional
agreement on the navy has been trans?
mitted to Tokio for the consideration
of the Japanese Cabinet. Part of the
general settlement is believed to be a
definite understanding over China.
This understanding does not yet in?
clude Shantung, which is under sepa?
rate negotiation between China and
Japan, and another item on the agenda,
namely, Eastern Siberia, has still to
be taken up by the committee on Pa?
cific problems, Over these particular
matters, however, no serious difficul?
ties are expected. The students #r
nationalists of China are, of course,
vocal, but their protests appear to bo
unsupported.
The report from Tokio that a memo?
randum for a treaty between the
United States, Japan, Britain and
France will be signed in a week puta
the case, perhaps, a little too crudely.
The various settlements must be em?
bodied, doubtless, in writing, but their
form can scarcely be so simple as a
single treaty. In the first place, it
must be remembered that five powers
only are taking part in the discussion
of armaments, whereas nine powers
are included in the discussion of the
Far East. This means surely that
there must be at least two docu?
mentary instruments?the one to in?
clude and the other to omit the slgna
1 tures of China, Belgium, Holland and
Portugal.
Formal Treaty Improbable
In the next place, it is not to be
assumed that either or both of these
documentary instruments will be tech?
nically known as "a treaty." It depends
on circumstances, and this aspect of
i the subject is by no means free from
? perplexity.
? Many of the most powerful papers
I in American diplomacy have been other
: than treaties. Instances of these less
formal documents are the Monroe Doc
? trine, the Platt amendment defining
! the status of Cuba, the gentlemen's
I agreement limiting immigration on the
j Pacifie Coast, the open door, as defined
; by Mr. Hsy, Root, Takahira and
I Lansing-Ishil note?, and, unless I am
mistaken, the agreement with Canada
I to leave the frontier unfortified and to
i banish warships from the Great Lakes.
j In any event, there ?re innumerable
precedents for an honorable under
I standing between governments which
i does not take the form of a treaty.
| Written Agreement Preferable
Thefe may be -reasons why such an
1 understanding would be most con?
! venient in the case of the schedule for
the navies. A formal treaty might be
I held to infringe Parliamentary or Con
l gressional right to determine each
! year what shall and what shall not be
' spent on the public services. A written
i understanding would avoid this dif?
I ficulty and would yet. accomplish all
1 that is desired and intended.
Whether the assent of France and
Italy would be required is not quite
clear. To the United States and Japan
| the navies of France and Italy make
very little difference, ' and the only
I power concerned with their battleship
?construction is Great Britain. It is
; quite possible that Great Britain might
'? accept the tripartite schedule, 5-5-3,
with a reservation that in the event of
any European power building a new
navy her attitude would be cpen to re?
vision. This would mean that the as
' sent of Great Britain would continue
? indefinitely except in the very unlikoly
event of a serious challenge on the
ocean from Italy or Frar.ee? ^ I? some
way or. other Britain must so define her
assent as to briug in the cases of
France and Italy, which powers are her
near neighbors.
A rearrangement of treaty rights in
China is by no means as simple, ns it
looks, it may be tho best plan *f or
each of the eight powers represented
at the conference to sign and ratify a
separate treaty with China, all ot
which eight treaties would be identi?
cal in wording. The text would assert
the principles of the open door as al?
ready announced in tho press, and
would thus bind the powers to observo
those principien, s?vernlly and in ef?
fect jointly. In tho event of a power
failing to observe its obligations it
would be for China in tho first in?
stance to protest. This protest would
presumably bring in one er more of
the other powers to tho assistance of
China, and tho result would be a kind
of synthetic guaranty for China. All
that Congress would bo nsked to ratify
would be, on the above speculation, a
treaty between the United States and
China. Other powers?Japan, Britain,
Belgium, and so on?would ratify
treaties on similar terms.
The fairest assumption at. the mo
I ment seems to be, then, a distinct dip
j lomatic indorsement of tho two bar?
gains over the navy and the Far East
respectively. For the navies an ex?
change of notes may be held to be sim
j plest and sufficient. For the Far East
j the course of procedure micrht be what
?ire called "identic treaties," signed ly
each power separately with China and
guaranteeing to China her restored
sovereignty and the open door.
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Yokata Says Arms
Limitation Alone
Won't Insure Peace
j Potential Powers of Each
I Country Also Should Be
i Considered, He Contends ;
? Deprecates Racial Issues
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Making what was
considered a direct allusion to the
nava! ratio question, Sennosuke Yokata,
president of the legislative bureau of
the Japanese Cabinet, in an address
here to-day, declared the true and im?
partial spirit of disarmament should
take into consideration not only the
existing strengths of navies, but also
the potential powers of each country.
Mr. Yokata expressed tho opinion
that if tho present conference neg?
lected the importance of potential
power, by which he meant .general in?
dustrial capacity in supplying war ma?
j terial in time of emergency, it, might
j meet with the disapproval if not the
(derision of posterity.
j Point Previously Emphasized
! The comparative inferiority of Japan
j in ability to replace her warships in
j time of emergency was touched upon
j last week by Vice-Admiral Kanji Kato,
1 chief naval adviser to the Japanese
? delegation, when, in on interview, he
? outlined tho Japanese reasons for de
j siring a 70 per cent ratio of capital
| ships as against the 60 per cent set
I down in the American proposals.
j . Mr. Yokata, who was regarded as the
right hand man of Premier Hara, who
was recently assassinated, is return
I ir.g soon to ?Tapan and his address to
? day was made at a farewell luncheon
! which he gave in honor of about sixty
| Americans and Japanese. He is one
j of the leaders of the Seiyitkai or gov?
ernment party, and it is reported in
Washington that he may become a
member of the now Takahashi Cabinet
on his return to Tokio. It is believed
also that on his return ho will pro?
ceed to clarify governmental and pub?
lic opinion concerning the status and
aspirations of the Washington confer?
ence.
Refers to Draft in United States
In his address to-.day Mr. i Yokata
made the point that fhilita-ry prepara?
tions of an independent state should
consist not only of an efficient army
and navy with munitions, fortifica?
tions, etc., but that it must have the
backing of potential power and great
industrial organization. He referred
to the effective manner in which the
draft was carried out in the United
States during the war and the spirit
of unity and national co-operation
shown in America.
After dwelling upon the importance
of potential capacity as a fair measure?
ment of real disarmament, Mr. Yokata
said there were other means of estab?
lishing a lasting peace besides limiting
armaments, and that the American
people alone could take the lead in a
] new path to the eternal welfare of
mankind. He believed that every liv
? Ing creature had a right to life and
happiness and that therefore there
I was no room for such a thing as racial
! discrimination among the members of
j the human family. He asserted that
j no nation could be compared with the
United States, with its immense area
of fertile lands and its abundance of
natural resources.
Son of Late Dan Hanna
Sued Over His Children
Divorced Wife Makes Charge
Indicating He Has Not Ful?
filled Contract for Support
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
WATERTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 3.?Mark
A. Hanna, of Watertown, N. Y., and
Cleveland, son of the late Dan R,
Hanna, is defendant in a suit brought
in the Federal Court at Utica by Mrs.
Adele Pratt McDermott, his former
wife, In connection with a contract for
the .support of their four children. The
action is brought In the Federal Court
because Mrs. McDermott is a resident
of Ohio and Hanna legally is a resident
of Watertown.
Harold S. Hooker, attorney for Hanna,
refused to discuss the. case other than
to say that Hanna "had made a hand?
some settlement for the children."
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Rocky Mountain Storm
Now Sweeps Oklahoma
Six to Seven Inches of Snow
in Colorado and Wyoming;
Texas Also Hit
DENVER, Dec. 3.?The heaviest snow
storm of the season in the Rocky Moun?
tain region was diminishing in inten?
sity to-day as It moved on to the
, southeast, centering over Oklahoma
? and northwestern Texas, the district
weather bureau reported. The storm
Swept this region yesterday and last
! night.
The eastern slope bore the brunt of
| the storm, that part of Colorado and
j Wyoming receiving an average of six
! to seven inches of snow and tempera
i tures ranging from 6 to 20 degrees
above zero. LaadvlHe, Colo., was the
coldest point in tho Rocky Mountains,
the temperature there being 6 above.
The storm was light on the western
slope.
A light snow fell in northeastern
New Mexico ?nd the Texas Panhandle.
Six inches of snow fell in Denver und
seven in Cheyenne.
Tho storm area extended east to Chi?
cago.
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Illness of Mother May Call
Underwood From Conference
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (By Tho As?
sociated Press). -Senator Underwood,
one of the American arms conference
delegates, received word to-day that
his mother, who is past ninety year3
of ago, was ill st Birmingham, Ala.
Mr. Underwood, it was said, might be
called away from the conference to
liar bedside.
China Clashes
With Japan at
Press Dinner
? i. i.
Discussion of Achievements
of Arms Conference-by
Foreign Correspondents
Brings Conflict in Views
Shanghai Editor Bitter
'Special Brand of Hypocrisy
and Lying Indulged In
at Washington,' He Says
Pessimism, rather than optimism,
characterized a discussion of the
achievements thus far of the Washing
tons arms conference by foreign press
correspondents and other unofficial ob?
servers who were the guests of the
Foreign Policy Association yesterday
at a luncheon in the Hotel Pennsyl?
vania.
The discussion included expressions
of conflicting views on the part of the
Chinese and Japanese spokesmen. In
the case of the Chinese speaker those
views contained a severe Indictment of
Japan's aims and a declaration that
China as a nation of 400,000,000 people
would "never be subdued by Japan."
The speakers were K. P. Wang, edi?
tor of "Shun Pao," Shanghai; G, E.
Uyehara, a member of the Japanese
House of Deputies; Henry W. Ncvin
son, correspondent of "The Manchester
Guardian"; J. J. Champenois, repre?
senting the French Ministry of Educa?
tion in tho United States, and Bruce
Bliven, managing editor of "The New
York Globe." The Foreign Policy As?
sociation is a non-partisan organization
which has for its purpose the bringing
about of amity between nations. Four
hundred men and women were at the
luncheon.
The only real note of optimism struck
during the discussion was that con?
tained in the speech of Mr. Uyehara,
who said that Prosident Harding's ex?
pressions at the opening of the con?
ference represented the real sentiment
of a majority of the Amorican people,
which, if carried out, will have con?
stituted "a great step toward inter?
national peaco." Internationally, he
said, there was no question that the
conference is the greatest move toward
adjustment of international affairs in
the world's history.
Mr. Uyehara objected, however, as
did subsequent speakers, to the closed
committee meetings being held in Con?
nection with the conference. These
were calculated to arouse doubt, if not
distrust, among the various delega?
tions as to the real work being done,
he said.
As if replying to Mr. Uyehara's state?
ment that China had already secured
the consent of all powers concerned
for the abolishment of the foreign post
office and extra-territorial privileges
enjoyed by Japan in China, Mr. Wang,
the Chinese speaker, who followed Mr.
Uyehara on the program, entered into a
satirical discussion regarding the con?
ference as a whole and Japan in par?
ticular.
Developments at the conference con?
vinced him, Mr. Wang said, that "the
Japanese diplomats of the old school
were back on the stage of international
affairs in much the same light that
they participated in the Pai*is confer?
ence. The Japanese delegates, he de?
clared, are again engaged in a role of
"obstruction and silence."
"A special brand of hypocrisy and
lying is being indulged in at Wash
: ington," the speaker asserted.
"The news will come from China in
! a few days that China regards the
conference as it is now being held as
a betrayal of her rights; China's feel?
ings and position in the Far East have
been practically ignored at Washing?
ton, and Baron Kato (the Japanese
spokesman at the conference) is hav?
ing his way just as the Japanese dele?
gation did at Paris. China is distrust?
ful of Japan's promises."
Expert Helps Reporters
Visualize Arms Council
Conference of Hughes, Balfour
and Kato Made Clear as
Mud by His Process
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Attempting to help
reporters get real light on the
naval ratio meeting attended last
night by Secretary Hughes, Mr. Bal?
four and Baron Kato, a delegation
spekesman suggested to-day it might
be easy to visualize it.
"How would this do?" he asked,
"After they sat down it is very prob?
able that Mr. Balfour said: 'Now look
here, Baron, suppose certain measures
were taken for Japanese security,
wouldn't it be possible for Japan to be
satisfied with the ratio outlined by Mr.
Hughes ?'
" 'That's interesting,' Baron Kato
doubtless replied. 'But let's see,'
?'Then Mr. Hughes said that so and
so and so and so might be done, to
which in our visualizing we might
hear the Baron reply:
" 'Now that makes quite a difference.
Again lot's see what you do suggest.'
"In other words, you see that while
some great men were sleeping yester?
day after tea the three statesmen were
on the job. If I were writing the
story I would say quite positively that
efforts were being made to settle ques?
tions so and so on such and such
grounds."
Chinese Students Aroused
Demand Return of Shantung in
Demonstration Here
Several hundred Chinese who are
studying in this country marched yes?
terday from Broadway and HGth
Street to the Chinese Consulate at 13
Astor Place to give Consul Suej a copy
o?" resolutions opposing direct negotia?
tion between Chin? and Japan and de?
mi-.ncHng the return of Shantung and
the abrogation of the Twenty-one De?
mands. The Consul promised to trans?
mit the resolutions to the Chinese dele?
gation at Washington.
The marchers carried placards illus- ?
trative of their aims, some of. them j
being: "Shantung Must Be Uncondl- j
tionally Returned to China," "We De?
mand Abrogation of Twenty-one De?
mand.-," "No Direct Negotiation Be-1
tween China and Japan," "No Secret i
Deal on Shantung." "Present Shantung
Openly Before Washington Confer* |
ence," and "Shantung, Cradle of
China's Civilization, Cannot Be Robbed
Away."
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Negro Committeeman Holds
Political Chat With Harding
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.?Henry Lin?
coln Johnson, negro national commit?
teeman from Georgia, called to-day on
President Harding, but on leaving the
White House declared there was no
discussion of the rejection by the
Senate of an appointment which "would
have made him Recorder of Deeds
| the District of Columbia.
Politics only was discussed, Mr.
| Johnson asserted. Ho insisted that he
i intended to retain his post as national
I committeeman for the remainder of
the foor-yeat term h? ztcn ia serving
and said he would seek re-election.
I. R. T. Will Improve
Jerome Ave. Service
Continuous Rush Hour Sched?
ule to Kingshridge Road
Will Be Maintained
Officials of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company announced yesterday
that, at the request of the Transit
Commission, arrangements .have- been
made for an important change in the
service of the company's Jerome Ave?
nue branch of the Lexington Avenue
subway, Which it is believed will be of
material benefit to thousands of pas?
sengers daily. The chanco affecta the
non-rush-hour service and will go into
effect a week from to-day.
At present in non-i-ush hours through
service nort|n of 167th. Street on the'
Jerome Avenue line is by elevated
trains alone, to which northbound pas?
sengers riding on subway trains are
obliged to change. This has caused a
great deal of inconvenience.
The rush hour service, as at present
operated, will be retained. The change
provides for trains to and from Kings
bridge Road, and a number of elevated
trains to and from the terminus at
Woodlawn. The effect of the now serv?
ice is to establish a twenty-four hours
subway service to Klngsbridge Road ,
from 167th Street.
Marie Dressier Weeps
At Burial of Dalton
Widow Fails to Appear, but
Dead Man's Mother At?
tends Funeral
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CORNING, N. Y., Dec. 3.?While
Marie Dressier, the actress, was pres?
ent here to-day for the burial rites of
James H. Dalton, her manager and re?
puted husband, Mrs. T. A. Dalton, of
Alston, MaBs., Dalton's wife, was not
among the throng of mourners. Miss
Dressier stood beside Mrs. Hannah
Dalton, of Boston, mother of Dalton, as
the body was buried in St. Mary's Cem?
etery. Both wept. Tf there was any
antipathy between the two women it
was not exhibited.
The mother is known to have cham?
pioned the cause of Mrs. T. A. Dalton
in her estrangement from her husband.
Both Mrs. Dalton and Miss Dressier
were guests until Miss Dressier left to?
night at the home of Mrs. T. M. Mur?
phy, a cousin of Dalton, where Dalton's
body was removed upon arrival here.
They were driven back to the house in
separate conveyances after the com?
mittal rites.
j Benjamin Dalton, brother of Dalton,
I refused to confirm or deny the reported
marriago between hi3 brother and Miss
Drossier. Both Mrs, Hannah Dalton
and Miss Dressier denied themselves to
all interviewers, Miss Dressier appar?
ently being content to let stand as fact
a Chicago dispatch quoting her as say?
ing that she never had been married
to Dalton for the reason thnt Dalton's
wife refused to consent to divorce her
husband.
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Senator Johnson Sounds
Out Harding on His Plan
Confers Two Hours With Presi?
dent, but Withholds Com?
ment on Association
Prom The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. ?Senator
Hiram Johnson, of California, one of
the inveterate foes of the Loairue of
Nations, has had a two-hour conference
with President Harding, at which the
proposed association of nations and
ether important questions were dis?
cussed. This fact was disclosed to?
night coincident with the departure of
Senator Johnson for the Pacific Coast,
where ho goes to examine his political
fences.
Tho Californian was a guest of the
President at luncheon Friday.
It is understood from close friends
cf Senator Johnson that he ascertained
that while the President has an as?
sociation of nations in mind the de?
tails ara by no means worked out, and
until there is something more definite
Senator Johnson will not be prepared
to say whether he is for the Admin?
istration plan or against it.
Senator Borah, one of the leaders in
the fight against the League of Na?
tions in the last Congress, already has
declared himself against the proposed
association on the ground that it is the
league in another form. Senator John?
son has not yet taken this attitude, a
fact which caused comment at the capi?
tal to-day.
Briand's Policy
Arouses Ire of
British Press
?Premier's Uncompromising
Stand May Fill Coming
Anglo-French Conference
With Serious Difficulties
Consider Entente Broken
Demands Destroyed a Part
?of Washin-gton Parley's
Power, Says "Chronicle"
By Arthur S. I>raper
From The Tribune's European Burma*
6opy3flg*ht, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Dec. 3.~-Premier Briand's
first public utterances since his return
from Washington are hardly calculated
to improve the temper of the British
officials who mu3t meet him soon in a
series of international conferences.
It is significant that some of the
'most caustic critics of French policy
to-day are found in newspapers com?
monly known as supporters of the Lloyd
George government, hut bitter com
1 ments are not confined to any particu?
lar group, several Conservative jour?
nals rivaling Liberals in their attacks
on Briand.
The early future must bring with it
an Anglo-French conference on Middle
Western affairs which are now being
bandied by Marquis Curzon, British
Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Perhaps
even earlier will come the Anglo-French
debate on German reparations, for.it is
possible Germany will default payment,
and the French military occupation of
the Ruhr might follow.
A discussion of the Angora agree?
ment is keenly desired by the British
government, but first Briand will have
to answer some criticism in his own
parliament.
Meant Every Word
To illustrate the British temper for
the moment a few quotations are neces?
sary. Says ''The Daily Chronicle":
"Briand's speech on his return to
France shows that there was no inad?
vertence in what he said at Washington
but that he meant every word. He even
makes it rather worse, for he recog?
nizes that at these conferences it is
sufficient for one country to dissent for
the whole list of proposals to go by
the board.
"If that remark can be interpreted
literally it can only mean that Briand
spoke, as he did knowing full well that
he might be -wrecking the conference.
It is a pity that he didn't make that
clear at Washington, but spoke as
though the world is in two separate
halves, each of which could revolve on
a separate axis of its own. But it is
clear now what he intended.
j: "He seems to have gone to Washing?
ton with two alternatives. One, that
?France should be given absolute guar?
anties of peace and security for the
future. Such guaranties, we may ob?
serve, are beyond the power of anyone
to give France, for it would depend on
her own policy, including her policy
on the question oj? competitive arma?
ments, which are among the causes of
insecurity and sometimes even of wars.
Demand Injured Conference
"Having failed to obtain these
guaranties he produced a second alter?
native, which though it has not
wrecked the conference has destroyed
a great deal of its power for good."
"The New Statesmen," which is rare?
ly in agreement with "The Chronicle"
on any subject, makes a violent attack
on France, declaring that the entente
Is not only completely broken, but that
it is pure hypocrisy for Britons now
to refer to "our friends, the French."
Says "The Outlook": "There is a
serious grievance against France and
we wish the French could understand
that this grievance has no reference
to any selfish, narrow or local conflict
of interests between this country and
their own. It isn't the English
grievance but the world grievance."
"The Nation" says: "We do not
think we wrong this France?or per?
haps we should say, this government
in France?when we say that her lead?
ing motives are for the preservation
of her military hegemony over Europe."
"The Nation" insists the "one re?
maining hope of averting the conse
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Real Understanding Needed
"The Saturday Review" declares that
the supreme task of utatesmanship to?
day is "to bring about a real under?
standing with Germany on one side
and France on the other, and. as a
corollary,4 ?between France and Ger?
many. The day of hatreds or an en?
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ing must be hard, economic and in?
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There are many other comments in
to-day's press, some papers minimiz?
ing Anglo-French differences, but all
agree that they are of a most serious
character. What the upshot will be it
?3 difficult to say, but there is no ques?
tion that the British government is de?
termined to pursue its policy toward
Germany, whether or not France co?
operates.
Hitherto the British have compro?
mised for the sake of the entente, but <
if the official attitude is interpreted
correctly there will be less compromise
in the future. ,
The outstanding feature is that, the
press is now speaking with a frankness
which is almost startling. That the de?
velopments of the Washington confer?
ence are largely responsible is obvious.
If the Anglo-French relations are more
strained the Anglo-American relations
are observed on this side to be infinite?
ly better.
Balfour To Be Dinner Guest
English Speaking Union to i
Jf?onor Arms Delegate Here
Arthur .7. Balfour, acting head of tho |
British delegation to the Washington
Conference on tho Limitation of Arma?
ment/ will be the guest of honor at a
dinner to be given to-morrow evening
by the English-Speaking Union of the
United States, at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel.
More than 1,000 persons are expect?
ed to attend. The special guests in?
clude Mr. Balfour's colleagues of the
British delegation. They are Lieuten?
ant Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey, secre?
tary of the British Cabinet since 1919;
Lord George Riddell, Sir Hubert
Llewellyn Smith, economic adviser to
the British government and permanent
secretary of the British Board of Trade;
Sir Arthur WSllert, Washington repre?
sentative of the British Ministry of In?
formation, and Maurice Peterson, of
the British Embassy at Washington.
? ? ? .
Italian Minister Urges Open
Door and Trade Freedom
ROME, Dec. 3.?Foreign Minister
della Torretta, addressing the Foreign
Affairs Committee to-day on the sub?
ject of the Washington conference,
said Italy was in favor of upholding
tho principle of freedom of trade and
the open door. He added that the
Italian delegation in Washington was
very much in favor of limiting arma?
ments subject to such safeguards.
Alluding to Asia Minor, Marquis
della Torretta 6aid both Great Britain
and Italy had raised objections to the
? recent agreement concluded between
'?. France and the Turkish Nationalists.
Several Hurt When Uruguayan
Police Halt Anti-U. S. Meeting
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 3.?
Several persons were injured yeste.
j day when police with drawn sabres
dispersed a demonstration staged be?
fore the government house by Com?
munists protesting against the con?
viction for murder in the United States
of the Italians Sacco and Vcnzetti.
The police acted when the Commu?
nist orators began to use violent ex?
pressions against the American au
thorities. and the leaders refused t*> i
suspend the meeting.
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