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' S- . - i : - THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON; TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1E2L 3 r. V U. S. HAS PLAYED : IS BRITISH VIR ! FRENCH DELEGATES AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE , . . i ' i -i - - - ' w, - if- .V A l& "? , . .-. j.. .5- S 4-'. - i a t j V WMhlnftn, - Not. 14. Mod47) In KM felt tpch on llmlUtlon of armm- mailt tomorrow mornlnir at 10 o'olockat ContlnonuJ ball. Mr. Balfour not anly will acerpt what Mr. Hacba proposea. but will go further. Ha will put treat vtreaa on the tin wladom of allowin aa many mibmarlnea to tha naval powara aa Mr. ' Hurnea allowad. and iuant that In that direc tion Ilea a chance for dratlc further reductkm. Darld Lloyd Oeorae haa cabled to Mr. Balfour fata apadfic approral of the American propoaal aa outlined by Secre tary of Bute lluffhea. Mr. Balfour doea net wrlta Ma apechea. JuM aa he atwaya haa done In the houae of commoni, so hero he will let the eiact word take rare of them aetvea when he reta on hie feet. Mr. Uufhn ban certain prlnrlplee about the altuatlon In the Far Kaat Tbey are a definite aa file Ideaa about reduction of armament. Whether it will aeam wlaa to wtaae any atatement on thla ftjbect tomorrow cannot be fore- aeen The remaining buaineee will be the report of the commltteea on the method Of dlvMina; and conducting the future work of the conference. WAJIT FLAMTS GOISG ft la tow definitely announced what T,Vf-t V. hMr n.ifMf I Thrw of tltr outatanding pcrttunaUUtfs of France who are at the arms conference are, left to right Albert Sar- wlll hold that while tha naval policy! raut, minister of the colonies; Premier Brtand, and former Premier Vlvianl. la heartily accepted, tha method of re placement should be no changed aa to keep plant and expert workmen em ployed. One high official put It thua : "What would happen If newspapers suddenly derided that no linotypes were to be constructed for 10 years? Would not the' makers of theae machines be forced to ga Into other llnea of Industry; and would they not be reluctant to return and perhaps,' If they did return. be leea efficient 7 X .:-Kr. t)a empire conference there last anmmer. That conference was aidetracked by our eaUtiuc the conference on armament a4 Far Eaatero, questiona By aavtrnr tM eoiarena- - aere our govarnmaat enormously increased, tta voice tn the aettlementa. It bacama the aookeeroajv Had tha eoeferenca bean held abroad Secretary Busnes could not hava apruna; bia drama Uc appeal to pub lic opinion. ' T&a adminlstrauon learnea a mnnoer of things by watching what happened at Paria. Nobody wanted the peace conference held there except the French. It gave them an enormous advantage- Finally, It almost stifled Wilson's voice- Aa thiajra have gone tha British believe that Japan may be left unchecked In Asia with a float larro enough to con trol not only tha 'Pacific, but tha Indian ocean aa wall. Unless, therefore, wa turn up more effective plan for the Far Eaat than they expect of na, they believe that Japan will go home with a better promise of being mlstresa of Asia than aha had before last Saturday morn ing LAITD FOKCES TSYOLYED Tha only elements In tha situation that needa to bo considered today la the French. Ever since Uoyd George be gan to torn hia country into an opponent of French claims to control Germany tha feeling between France and Britiah haa been growing. Tha administration, however, haa no Intention of connecting the two thlnga. It believes that to attempt it would be to make a failure of the whole con Terence. ARMS CONFERENCE HINGES OH JAPAN. WRITER DECLARES By wmtasa Allea White tOoPTTicbt. lOSU by Uattea Keasl Waahinrton. Kov li-Tne socceaa of ik MnfrnM n tha limitation of ar mament deneada aoon japan; ana two . opinions aooui ja- rT-T lipaa hold diplomatic X .Wilt ington fairly ,i evenly. One la that "i-,A i England and Amer - ? I lea. facing tha alter S ' . " I native of a naval - " Ablned to invite Ja x i pan Into the oonfer- ence v taaa ou amr V run. The other opinion la that Ja pan and England, fearing the superior wealth of tha United r tv 1 ' posed and may break oat soon. -And even now tt la evident that thalr govern ment will accept tha Hoghea propoaal. To accept .fully Japan moat negotiate tci hat. dominion of tha Pad fie and bey supremacy In China. To re)ect means that aha moat face, and probahty right. as Angto-Aroarican alliance ia tha Pa- And Japan, while waiving her perfano tory acceptance, now Is heal tall ng. Da- clsioa will coma when tha Paclfio prob lems are considered. For than, and not now, win tha Hughoa challenge find Its Lmata aooaptaaoa or tuuu reJacUan from Japan. FIKK LABBISS XVTZXTAISr Aurora. Nov. . Tha Aarora fire de partment gave a danoa Satarday night attended by 400 dancers. Tha Ce pert inent at thia UtUa city haa received a new chemical auto .truck and hoee wagon. It boasts its equipment la beat In tha United States for a town of Aurora's else. . par at the present time. It is his plan to state his demands In his next speech before the conference. The Italian delegation up to the pres ent time fits Into the conference pic ture only In a social way. It is prob able that It will be some time before the part they are to play in the deliber ations can be defined. The delegates of the Big Five met this morning. Thl afternoon at 3 they nr. r. t Inln Ann f n.A airain hill thtfl The queetlon of control aleo will be Ume they had wlth them the delegates of lined by the British "Pert, tnder th remannff four nations Holland. the Hughes plan, ships lost by "act of Ood" or accident may be replaced, but It Is deemed n-nary to devise safe guards In thla connection. It should not be possible for any naval authority to "encourage" accidental destruction of Its unit In order to replace them with ahtna embodying new Ideaa. ritr.M H 5ATY I ACTOH In the British view the slse of the French navy la a vital factor of stra tegy In Ruropean aaters, and Lord Lee created a situation that filled the Brtt- Belgium. Portugal and China. After this meeting of ajl the nation there was another meeting Of the five. FRANKNESS FEARED . All day there has been among -the foreljjh delegates a distinct fear that when Hughes does speak of the Far Kast, whether tomorow or later, he will be as frank, as he was on the question of armament. By his performance on Saturday he of Farehahi. the first lord of the Ad miralty, will urge the determination at tha laarllest poealhle moment of th Strength of the French navy. No resentment Is felt at British head quarters here at the proponed elimina tion of eneciflcally named capital ships from the grsnd fleet. Australia, however, regsrds with mixed feelings a plan which would deprive her: ' of one of her only two flit line battle ships, anT may be axpeoted to fight for the retention of her existing pacific 'Strength. The most Interesting feature bf th Ish with alarm, though It satisfied the .lupaneae on the whole. When he speaks on the Eastern question, It will be the turn of the Japanese to be worried. If he expresses his ideas next time with as much open diplomacy as he did Sat urday, the Japanese will have a sensa tion. The Chinese delegates are looking on with hone and trepidation. Around them every kind of propaganda Is being car ried on. The principal points In the propagan-i Ja by those who want to see no Inter ference with commercial Imperialism at . Japanese situation today Is the frequent their expense, are that there is no unity nd almost constant conferences ' mem-I in China and that ate defacto govern bera of Nippon's '.delegation held with I mvnt in Pekln U a tool of the Japanese. tha British representatives. I CHINA BA8 INFLUENCE rtT OF JAFANF.SF. J As China Is the center of the whole . . Tonight Mr. Malfour and Sir Auckland 1 controversy in the Far Kast. the view of Oeddes. the Hritlah ambassador, were the Chinese delegates is having an in guests of Admiral . Kato and 1'rlnce 1 fiuerice out of aU proportion to .the TnkucaK at th thnrham hntl Huron I Strength of China. Shldehara. the Japanese ambassador.! The situation regarding the Chinese also m present. The spirit of great- J delegation is in fact much what It wu est accord seemed tn exist between thee I- rarie. ui me inree principal ueie- dlolomats. The conferenoe with the ate8 r- ?t Parta- They All over the country the newspapers urged the population to get together and express itself Everywhere were meetings of chambers of commerce, municipal bodies, labor organizations, j agricultural organisations. They all passed resolutions about policy and they all expressed themselves about the proper men to send. Peking felt compelled to bow to the overwhelming wish that men who had stood out against Japan's seiz ure of Shantung should be sent. Mr. Hughes, as I believe, intends to outline a policy satisfactory to the most reasonable elements in China. Then It becomes extremely. Important to know just what these most trusted men want. Our government must deal diplomat ically with the Peking government, but does not make the mistake of thinking that government represents China. Neither does it think that the Canton government represents the country. The real representatives are the delegates. NOT UNREASONABLE The prevailing Chinese position I be lieve to be this: China does not ask the Impossible. She does not ask to have given up rights and privileges of long standing. She is willing to draw the line at Au prust, 1914. Concessions made by her, however mistakenly, up to then, she will .accept gracefully and get rid of 'only when she has developed enough to buy them off. But to the further things taken away from her during the war, by duress, she will not submit, if she can hefpJU There have been smaller Japanese encroach ments during the war. but Shantung Is the main Issue. Shantung and the alliance.: between Japan and England are the two out standing points in the situation, as Been by China, and I believe that fact will be reflected in the policy of Mr. Hughes. If the truth must be known the Brit ish feel that the American moves so fat have played into the hands of the Japanese. Their official statements do not represent their feelings. When they cannot change a thing they accept it without much conversation. What they wanted to do waa to hold back the armament question until an agreement had been reached on the Far Eastern question. They look upon the principal advantage of their agree ment with Japan now as giving them a chance to outplay her In Asia or at least to .play the game on equal terms with her there. rney wanted to find a method of getting the United States in as a third party to the Pacific agreement, mainly as a further support against Japanese domination of the Asiatic continent. CONFERENCE SIBETBACKED It will be remembered that Great Brit ain was arranging a conference in Lon don ha Eastern question to follow Barristers Fight On Failing to See Law Point Alike Gold Beach.. Nov. 15. The trial of Frank TJiacker, alleged hooUeger. be fore Ralph Starr, Justice of the peace, was interrupted Monday, when J. O. Stearns Jr.. district attorney, and Col lier H. Bufftngton, attorney for Thack er, engaged in a flat fight. The attorneys were arguing a point of law when Buffing-ton insinuated that Stearna was deviating from tha truth. The district attorney resented the im plication, whereupon Buffington shouted "Tou are a liar." The district attorney's fist shot out and planted itself squarely in Buffing ton's eye, following which the attorneys staged a free for all before they were separated by Sheriff Huntley and tha spectators. The district attorney invited his opponent outside to settle the argu ment in approved style but the sheriff put an end to the encounter when he threatened both with- arrest. An inalienable right Isn't worth a great deal unless it la able at times to deliver a right to the Jaw. States would soon give her tha supremacy of the sea, lured her Into calling the conference, hoping to equalise the naval forces of tha three great sea powers. Both opinions are sheer moonshine diplomatic mulligrubs. Still the hinge of tha issue turns upon Japan. England must accept. The aise of tha pacifist labor minority in England ia too threat ening to permit much parley from Eng land. KNEW BOMB WAS COMING Before the conference met Secretary Hughes talked for three hours with Mr. Balfour, the British leader, and it la In conceivable that they gossiped all that time about the weather. Balfour knew that Hughes waa going to fire a bomb. Balfour knew when he came into the conference that the bomb would contain specific recommendations for dlsarma ment. But he did not know what they were. It was better that he should jiot have known. Too much knowledge would have been evidence of a conspiracy, But Balfour did not tell the London reporters that Hughes was going to biow nearly two million tons of war craft out of the water. The British rn-wspaper men came over here under some sort of Impression that this was a tea given in the midst of an earth quake. BETTER BUT NOT WELL Tha British reporters were Incurable gloom peddlers. But the Hughes shock heiped them. They are better now, but far, far from well. The. optimism, which for American reporters la a sort of oc cupational disease, has not touched the British yet But they havs been ex- omxeos cocplz liczxsxd fCalama. wash. Nov. 1. Gay W Jensen of Astoria and Raima Barkinen of Swansea, Or., cored a marriage li cense, tha first in 10 days Issued by Auditor Davis. School for Am Drivers to Open Tonight at I o'clock ta Library nan the NaUoaal Safety CouaciTa school for v automobile drtrors will opao. with "The Eat" ah th swbjact .for dlsowsalosu C X.- Bpeacer of tha Oragan lastltttle at Tchnotoa-7 win ba the speaker aad win awe slides to illustrate hia talk. Tha purpose of theae lectures la to provide practical instruction la tha conatroctioa and operation of motor ears and thaa to aaabla drivers to If ml a their chances of having an accident. With traXOo ac cidents mounting by leapa and bound -there wars lit l la Portland last month -U behoves the driver to understand hia car thoroughly and to know how to operate It. Tha course ia free, and the publlo Is Invited. The Information will tntsrsst both pleasure car and truck drivers. KATMOND TA5CTT ACQTITTID Kalama, Wash. Nov. 11 It took a Jury M minutes to acquit Raymond Taa eey, charged with theft of clothing from the Radding store. The Real Thing t . . 11 3 WE ill admire tha real, whether in laces, lUver or tapestry.. The Oriental run-in AtiyerrBros.' marvelous collec tion are the real thlnf la color, texture, symbolic desifn, and painstaking fidelity to the small details that make perfec tion. It Is a plea sura to show them at any time. We are proud of our collection tba largest la the en tire Northwest. AtiyehBros. Onent&l Rugs Alder at Tenth British and their participation In the held absolute orders from the Tekln two committee meetings of the day were government to sign the Versailles pact. the principal activities of tha Japanese. lAlthotiKh the JapHnrse are maintain ing Official sllertoe with respect to their attitude, sufficient hints have been thrown out to make plain that Japan probably will supiort Great Britain In all Of the exceptions which have been MKetel by the British delegation as bning necessary in the American pro posals. Tartli'iilarly are the Japanese con" cerrlad with the effect of any naval holi day upon their shipbuilding industry which gave away Shantung to Japan. They refused. Therefore, China never signed that treaty. How did those men happen to be se lected to come here, after their defiance of the l'ekin government? The answer throws a good deal of light on what Hughes may say when he gets around to it. ' Iresiilent Harding invited China to tht: conference on July 10. If the Pekln government had followed its ordinary habit It would have named its delegates from among Its own henchmen, in less unemployment prevailing in rtpnn in than a week Actually it did not name hardly a less degree than In any other them for three months, and then named Wiuntry " important factor In con- for to out of the three Maces met. m-h section with that country's attitude to-I had conspicuously proved both their InT era the naval holiday. I dependence and their determination to rRKNCH ARE SILENT I stand up agahwt new Japanese domina -Premier Brland and tho French dele-I tio" aloe hail iio Mtementn today for pub- I MUTES I1T-OPINION" It la understood that Premier tat Ilea t Ion Brland Is very, keen to have the status Of the Krench "navy determined aa soon aa pwwslhte. He haa made thla plain that the Krench naval forces are below The Teklng government took this ex, traordlnary course not because It wanted to. 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