PACIFIC TREATY

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1922, Page 5

PACIFIC TREATY

THE SENATE DEBATE. SENATOR REED’S CRITICISM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association..’ WASHINGTON, Alarch 16. Like yesterday, the Senate debate on the I'our-Power Treaty lagged at times, there being less than six Senators present. Senator i-ieed delivered the only speech, which attached the Naval Disarmament treaty, together with the Four-Power pact. Senator Reed declared: “We agree to yield to Japan 26,000 islands in the Pacific, a vast number of which can be used as airplane bases and landing places; also many for naval bases. AVe also agree not to fortify Guam or strengthen the fortifications in the Philippines. Thus we are placed in a position capable of being attacked. Our possessions are left without security, because the Four-Power Treat}.. according to its advocates, does not bind its signatories.” NAVAL LLAIITATIONS. WASHINGTON, Alarch 16. The Senatorial attack on the Armament Conference Treaties has switched on to the Naval Limitation Treaty. It is declared that its ratification would place the United States in grave danger, and that the whole status of the Naval Powers under the Treaty has been misrepresented to the Senate and the American people. Senator Reed challenged the members of the American delegation to produce the confidential reports of naval experts regarding the relative naval strengths of the United States, Britain and Japan. He said: “Under the Four-Power and Naval Treaties you are making it impossible for us to defend the Philippines and Guam, or for us to go and attack Japan.” RETALIATION rROFOSED. Reed. 10.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, Alarch 17. In the Senate, Senators Borah ana Underwood demanded the immediaw withdrawal of all American troops from the Rhine as an answer to the Allies* refusal to permit the payment el maintenance and the cost of repaiations. . JAPANESE POLICY. NEAV YORK, March 16. A despatch from Tokio states that*Baron Kato in a speech in the House of Peers, declared that the'Government did not propose any material increase in the present programme of building submarines and auxiliary craft-. The Government was willing to reduce military expenditure to t the lowest possible basis. NOTE TO GERAIANY. BERLIN, March 16. The Foreign Office has received a Noto from the Entente Powers protesting against the organisation of defence police which are regarded as of much too military a character. GENOA CONFERENCE, COPENHAGEN, Alarch 17. The representatives of Denmark, Holland, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland will meet at Stockholm on Saturday to discuss the neutrals’ joint interests at the Genoa Conference. AMBASSADORS’ CONFERENCE. Reed. 9.20 a.m. PARIS, March 19. It is reported that. AI. Cambon ha resigned the Presidency of the Ambassadors Conference in favour of an important apConference in favour of an important banking appointment.