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1?Secretary Hughes addressing ai "Light of the States" for the confer? ' Washington monuipent in center. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Conference May Agree on Naval Armament Reduction Plan Within a Few Weeks. ' HUGHES' PROGRAM APPROVED Suggested Minor Modifications Are Being Discussed?China Pleads for Reoognitlon as Independent Nation?League Council Gets After the Serbs?Progress on Tax Revision Bill. By EOWARD W. PICKARD. * i IT APPEARS that the prophets In Washington were all wrong. The great conference seemingly Is going to reach and sign an agreement on limitation of naval armament without waiting to settle the problems of the Pacific and the Far East. This tendency Is1 - Boprotflrr WllPtlM' dOWD right action In laying before the conference In its first session the American proposal as to navies. Briefly, that proposal Is that the United States, Great Britain and Japan agree to suspend naval construction for ten years, and during the succeeding ten years build only for replacement; that all uncompleted capital ships and many other specified capital ships be crapped at once; that the aggregate capital ship tonnage be limited to 500,000 each for England and America, and 300,000 for Japan; that the sea power of the three nations be uaintalned on this basis. There are other features of the program, but everyone is familiar with it by this time. The conference, and the world, were at first astounded by this unexpected laying of the American cords on the table, and then the plan was greeted with loud and universal acclaim. The delegates of the other nations could not, If they would, refuse to indorse it, and at the second open session Great Britain, Japan, Italy and France, formally accepted It "In principle," with minor modifications. These, as set forth then and later, were as follows: 1 By Great Britain?Limit size and tonnage of submarines; permit construction of one capital ship a year during ten-year period to retain shipyard facilities; permit retention of more light cruisers and gunboats to police the high seas; reduction in number of naval ship building yards. By Japan?Increase of Japan's naval strength to 70 per cent of British and American; cessation of construction of naval bases and new fortifications in the Pacific. By France?Allowance of eight capital ships to safeguard French colonies. By Italy?Allowance of six capital efhlps to protect Itallun Interests. J A committee, of which Col. frieo (lore Kooseveit is cnuinnai^ set to work at once to study tHe plan and proposed modifications, and by the end of the week It was predicted an agreement would be reached within two or three weeks. Among the American experts there was considerable opposition to the British suggestions, and the Englishmen dropped the Idea of one battleship 9 year. Japan's proposition that there be no more naval base? or fortifications constructed In the Pacific was expected, and perhaps proves a bit awkwtmj, for tpe United States. It mewiS the "hhandonment Of worl^ arid. r.Uins in the Philippine D'Jtch Jiarbor and elsewhere Which have been considered most necessary for the safety of our possessions in the Pacific If not for that of our Pacific coast But If Mr. Hughes' general program Is accepted by the other powers It would seem the United States cannot well decline to accept this plan of Japan. In the shlp-scrapplng proposal America hus been most unselfish and perhaps she can afford to be as generous In other matters. WHEN the time came to put forward plans for settlement of the problems of the Far East none of the great powers seemed ready WHEELS TURNING IN RUSSIA Bolshevist Government Said to Be Fostering Organization of Capitalistic Trusts and Combinations. Moscow.?Trusts and combinations are now openly fostered by the Bolshevik government. Every day brings announcements of new combinations of small factories to which the soviet government has granted a concession, and there Is frank discussion of the necessity for organizing and combining rmament conference at Its opening s nee. 8?Illuminated Jeweled portal < with a program. But China, whost status is the crux of the situation set before the Committee on fas eastern affairs the demands of th< Asiatic republic. Dr. Alfred 8ze head of the Chinese delegation, wai the spokesman and he held a pre llmlnary conference with Amerlcai officials and In his demands followet their advice In all except one point? the creation of a permanent court 01 arbitration In the Far East Chlni asks respect for her territorial lntegrl ty, restitution of seised provinces ant regions, abandonment of special rights monopolies, privileges and extraterrl torlal rights, and withdrawal of forelgi troops from her soil and permlssloi to direct her own domestic aflfalri and govern her own Internal and foreign policies. She does not demant that all foreign monopolies ant privileges In China be abandoned ai once, but that she be given a chanct to put herself on a level with othes powers and that as time goes on ant conditions warrant the economic ant political fetters on her be loosened The British delegation approved th< Chinese demands In general, especially the open door policy and the abandon ment of "spheres of Influence." Tht Japanese, It was understood, acceptet the Chinese program In principle bu would Insist that withdrawal of In terest In China should Include all foreign powers. The Chinese dele gates say they make their demands In behalf of all China, Including th< onnthorn ruir+ whprp Sun Tat Set holds somewhat precarious sway and that Manchuria, Inner and oute: Mongolia, Tibet and Turkestan are In eluded In "the Chinese republic." It Is believed one result of the dls cusslon of China's program may b< the friendly abandonment of the Anglo Japanese alliance, and the Brltlsl would be glad to see this source o trouble replaced by some form of agree ment by the great powers. f^RANCE, as has often been polnte< * out. Is especially Interested In th* matter of reduction and limitation o land armament, and Premier Brlani took the lead in this, though he ha< no concrete plan nor any workini agreement with the United States dele gatlon. In his speech he discusse< the military situation in Europe particularly as it effects France, se forth the number of men under arm In the various European countries ant a/Ia nlnln *Ka mannno A# thn l) At uiuuc jjituu uiy uicuuv.v va uiw forces, especially In Russia. Nor di< he neglect to call attention to France'; peril from Germany which, he noted Is a nation of 05,000,000 while Franc* numbers but 85,000,000. It Is plni! that the French, will not consent t< plans for radical military armamen reduction until the Russian and Teu tonic threats are removed. OVER In Europe the League of Na tlons feels that Its authority Is be lng flouted by Jugo-Slavla, and It hai determined to show that It can stoj a war. Therefore It advanced th< date of Its Paris meeting and took uj the patter of the Invasion of Albanh by th$ Jh? iatfer be<SI dhlered to get out of Aibanla and {< observe the boundaries of that stati as established by the allied ambassa dors, but In effect, at least, they dls regarded both demands. They did however, disown the troops In A1 banla, claiming they are lrregulari over which their government has n< control. Meanwhile those "Irregulars' are said to be threatening Tirana, th< Albanian capital, and the sltuatioi Is about the sume as at Vllna when the league scored a failure. V T * "T>T ^T\rci uv.rntors nf AnRtrln 1/ /V1V1J U11U V- ? u*v? V Hungary, have been landed 01 their Island of exile, Madeira. Portu gal consented to care for them then but the expenses, reckoned at abou $80,000 a year, will be paid by th< states which formerly made up thei empire If the plan of the council o allied ambassador^ Is carried out, PRESIDENT Harding last Monde; signed without any ceremony th proclamation of pence between th< United States and Germany and ther Is much debate as to whom he wll select for ambassador to Berlin. Firs choice among the guessers Is Con gressman Alanson B. Houghton o Corning, N. Y. He was bortl In Mnssc chusetts flfty-elght years ago, gradual ed from Harvard and the unlversltie Industries In a way to Insure thel success In the future. It Is difficult to believe that a go\ ernment which so recently denounce all the processes of capitalism Is not openly advocutlng and assisting thel adoption. The grent effort of the economl council of the government Is to ge small industries started which wll supply the smull manufactured article required nil over Russln, such n household utensils, kitchen equlpmeni garden tools and small hardware. 1 ht i '.:l< b |fmbb|g? bpks flBBS lesslon. 2?Capitol Illuminated by the irected for the conference, showing 5 of Gottlngen, Berlin and Paris, am , speaks German and French. t Next Jnnuary Germany Is due to pa; i a reparations Installment of $100,000, , 000, and In February a quarterly pay s ment of about $60,000,000 on exports - Her financial experts are wondertai i where It Is to come from and thi 1 allied reparations commission In ses - slon In Berlin Is working over th< t problem. The commission believes th< i Germans can raise the money for thoa - two payments and urge them to do * 1 as a show of good will. There wa i, reason to believe that if they did, thi French delegates would consent to \ grant concessions for the rest of th< i year. The commission rejected aplaj i of the Industrial leaders of German; to pawn the country's Industries a 1 a guaranty for the reparations pay 1 ments; Instead It suggested that thi t Industrial Interests make sacrifices fo: 5 their country Instead of trying to prof r it from Its misery. That Germany la miserable In somi 1 respects Is made evident by the riot - In Berlin caused by the lncreasinj * cost of foodstuffs. Many shops wer J looted. High prices, of course, an - caused by the decline of the mark. 5 | T TLSTER still stands firmly, or stub ^ bornly, as you choose to look a It, m the vway or settlement 01 tm Irish trouble. Craig and his cablnel after studying the English plan, re 3 Jected It as unfair to their part of thi 9 island and offered some kind of i 1 substitute. This the British cablne In turn rejected, and an exchange o r notes between Lloyd George and Cral left the status unchanged. The Ulster ftes reiterated their determination no to submit to anything considered i 5 violation of Ulster's rights. Th British premier's stand was strength J ened by the action of the Unlonls party in convention In Liverpool. Th Irish negotiations are dragging ou so that Lloyd George may have t abandon his contemplated trip to Wash 1 ington to take part In the armomen B conference, f 3 *TpHE congressional conferepce com 3 mlttee on the tax revision bill ha J been Ironing out the differences be * tween the house and senate measure 1 with considerable rapidity, both side making concessions. One of the In 1 portant actions was the ellmlnatloi 3 of the house bill provisions for th 3 exemption of foreign traders am 3 foreign trade corporations. On Thurs 3 day the conferees suspended thel s meetings to allow the house to vote oi ^ the question - of surtax rates. Th ? senate had fixed the maximum rat 1 at 50 per cent and the house at 3! 5 per cent The "Insurgent" Itepubll 1 cans of the house were determined t " carry through the senate plan so th leaders turned to a compromise. Jus before the house met President Har - ding took a hand In the affair by In - forming the house conferees that i s maximum surtax rate of 40 per cen ? would be agreeable to the admlnlstra r > The house, however, by a vote o: i 201 to 173, Instructed Its conferee! i to accept the 50 per cent rate. ) i 'pHE week In America was not with I out Its serious labor troubles" few weeks are. The garment worker * of New York went on strike In pro test against the restoration of th } piece work system. Their leader I said most of the 00,000 workers quit but the employers asserted that Q 5 per cent of the workers had refuse* 1 to go out. s In Chicago there was a short bu lively strike of the teamsters accom panled by some violence. The inei - refused to accept a wage cut of $ 3 a week ordered by an arbiter and ac - cepted by the union officials. Aftfc 8 being out two days they returned t( t work with the understanding tha e they should have a rehearing befor r the arbiter^ I Alexander M. Howat, for twent; years a leader of the Knnsas mirier and now their president, was expelle< y from the United Mine Workers o e America for his refusal to obey th e order of the International officers t e ead the strike In that state. About 4,00 I Kansas miners also were suspende t from membership. Howat and hi crowd have fought uncompromising! f against the Kansas Industrial couri l- The Colorado Fuel and Iron company' miners In Colorado struck and stat s troops were culled out. r Such factories will require larg quantities of sheet tin and sheet iror . which many of them hope to get froi d America. The present supply In Itm v sla Is practically nil. r In cities like Moscow and Petrogra the government will supply thes^sma c industries with electrical power, t The government has granted a cor II cession to a combination of sm&1 s knitting factories In Petrogrnd, whlc s will resume work on the condition thu t, 12 per cent of their output will b paid to the government In tax. '1 rk in?{J psp (r^ \ The G a h 9 3 e a B I Delivery service, wi 0 motor fuel to a sev< 1 1 j the gasoline is quic 8 every time the mo1 e allowing it to idle e [ lot of gasoline. e But there are other s sides the "pep" thai I sturdy pulling pow 0 mileage per gallon, pletely that there is the moving parts of B These properties of 1 sessed by "Standai 0 article which leads < t that makes for effic t _ g Work with your en t*' JVlotor Gasoline for ; ' STANDS i e t o I. t 8 S ^mmm^HHmm I r |?! I Take the g ; I of your I e hi\ * I \V7HY not be sure tha h I VV always come out of 1 i I and tender? 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