ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 5

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY

DISCUSSION COMPLETED

THE NEW PROPOSALS

81 OABIiB- PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 4. The preliminary djoussion on the Anglo-Japanese Treaty has been completed. In addition to the set speeches, matters were thrashed out in conversation. Though no official draft of the J new proposals was before the delegates these will be framed from the views presented during the controversy, be ing debated in detail when the matter comes up again. Secrecy is observed, but private conversations suggest that the trend of feeling is taking the bajsis of the 1911 treaty. It is safe to say that the expression of opinion is divided as follow^ on general principles :— Five for one against the preamble, with the modifications necessary; a-6 to 0. h6 to 0; csto 1; article one. sto 1; article two, 4 to 2 (includes a reservation excluding the United States); article three, 4 to 2; article four, 6 to 0; article five, 4 to 2; article six, modi-

fications to be submitted. Asked if he noticed the newspaper discovery that the .Jreaty would continue unless denounced even for twelve months, Mr. Hughes replied that Ihe was under no misaprehensioa.