PACIFIC CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14716, 4 August 1921, Page 5

PACIFIC CONFERENCE

HELD ON NOVEMBER 11 R/JR LLOYD GEORG.E TO GO. LARGE DELEGATIONS EXPECTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Aucust 3. 5.5 p.m. LONDON, August 2. News of the abandonment of a preliminary Pacific Conference was madepublic to-day. It appears now that the United states was never keen on holding a preliminary conference at London, Washington, or anywhere else. This, in conjunction with Japan's reply, prompted the decision to discuss all phases at one conference. It is understood the Powers to be present will be Britain, Italy, France, Japan, China and United States. As soon as it was known that the Dominion Prime Ministers would not be afforded an opportunity to state their case individually, each focussed the main points of his contention, whirl) will be co-ordinated in the Imperial manifesto.

Mr Lloyd George will go to Scotland at the end of August, returning a month later. He is likely to leave Southampton for Washington on October 22. It is considered certain that November 11 will be fixed as the date of the Conference.

' Although it is believed each Power will have only one representative, the delegations are expected to he large, including experts on all subjects, as a great amount of detail is required. One Prime Minister said to-day that, Mr Lloyd George having just sat through the whole of the Imperial Conference listening to every word the delegates said about foreign affairs and Pacific questions, he possesses a perfect and unequalled grip of the Dominions' viewpoint, which is particularly fortunate at this juncture.

JAPANESE DEMANDS. • (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 3, 8.15 p.m. NEW YORK, August 3. The New York Times' Washington correspondent reports that all the suggestions for a preliminary conference on disarmament which were first made by England and Japan, have been withdrawn. Diplomatic exchanges are now in progress concerning the date. The United States is hopeful that the conference will meet not later than November.

Despatches received in Honolulu from Tokio state that Japan will insist that the disarmament conference shall discuss Mexican and American questions in those cases where these were not settled at a preliminary conference. TOKIO, August 2.

The newspaper Asahi Shimbun states that besides Shantung, Yap, and the occupation of Siberia, Japan will insist that 18 other matters shall come under the head of issues settled, or pertaining to a single country, during the Far Eastern conference. The newspaper adds that the Government is uncertain as to how these will be received by other participants in the conference.