SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 5

SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY.

LONG DISCUSSION EXPECTED

WASHINGTON, March 25. It now appears likely that several days will be spent over long discussions on the supplementary treaty excluding Japan's mainland from the provisions of the Pacific Treaty. Senator Lodge had hoped for ratification within a few hours, but Senator Hitchcock produced a new sensation by declaring that the adoption of the Pacific Treaty was illegal, since the supplementary treaty was like the codicil of a will, and the ratification of one without the other was void.

The irreconcilables promise a sharp debate.

TOKIO, March 25. It is officially declared that Japan has no objection to the Brandegee reservation regarding the Pacific Treaty, the Government regarding it as inconsequential.