was
likely
to
be
willing
to
take
the
consequences
should
Mr. Lloyd George
be
prevented
from
being
present
at
the
Washington
Conference
on their account.
Reported
plans
of
the British delegates
now
attending
the
Washington
confer-
ence
to
go
to
New York on Monday are
interrup-ed
here
as
indicating
their
re-
luctance
to
make
the
decisions,
so
far
tentatively
arrived
at
in
Washington,
binding
and
final,
because
of the possi-
bility of Mr.
Lloyd George participating
in
the
final
conclusions.
There
was
an
impression
in
offici
|
circles
here today
that the
proceedings
of
the Washington
gathering
were
being ‘‘soft pedalled’
in
consequence
of the receipt
of word
from
London that
the
British
Premier
might
.
soon
join in
the
Washington
delibera-
tions.
St.
Kirts,
Nee.
3rd.—H.
E.
the
Gov-
ernor of
the Leeward
Islands,
Lt.
Col.
the
Honourabie
Sir
Eustace
Fiennes,
Bart,
and Lady Fiennes
on their
way
to
Antigua
landed
here
from
S.
S. Fort
St.
George
this morning
and
were
given
a
hearty
reeeption
by
ail
classes
of
the
cormnmunity.
Antigua,
Deec.
4th.—His
Excelleuey
the
Honourable
Sir
Eustace
Fiennes,
Bart
and
Lady
Fiennes
arrived
this
morning
by
the
S.
S.
Fort
St.
George,
His
Excellency
lanlied
at
the
Govern
ment
Wharf
at
9a
m.
and
was
wel-
comed
by the Acting
Governor,
heads
of
Governma
't
Departmentis,
and
the
gen-
eral public.
His
Majesty’s
Commission
appointing
His
Excellency
to
be
Gov-
ernor
and
Commander-in-<
hies
of
the
Colony of the
Leeward Islands
was
then
read.
His Excellency
took the
preserib-
ed
oaths
in
the
Legislative
Council
Chamber
at 10 a.
m.
Washington,
Dec.
2nd.
The delegates
of China and Japan
in their conversations
brought
about
by
the
Hughes-Balfour
.)??er
of
good
offices
for the
settlement
of
the
Shaunting
controversy
between
the
two
nations,
went
to the
very heart
of
the
dispute
today,
each
nation
réas-
serting
positions
taken
i
the
four
recent
notes
exchanged
between
Tokio
and
Peking,
with
particular
reference
to
the
Tsingtan-Thinanfu
railway.
The
(hinese
delegates
‘'made clear’’ thatin
entering
into
this
informal
conference
for
the
settlement
of
the
Shantung
dispute,
they
had
‘‘no desire
to have it
inferred”’
that
China
had receded
from
its
known
attitude
with
reference
to
treaties
and
statutes
which
are
now
in
dispute
between
the
two
couatries
rela-
tive to the Kiauchow
leasehold.
The Jap-
anese
delegates
presented
the
Japanese
position concerning
control of the Tsing-
tan-Thinanfu raiiway
on the basis
of the
Japanese
note of
September
7 looking to
joint control.
Dr. Wellington Koo,
for
China,
reasserted
the
position
that
Lthe
railway
be owned
and
administered
by
the Chinese
Govt.
as
set forth in China’s
reply of gctober
sth
to Japan’s
offer of
Septembe?
7th
to restore
the
Kiauchow
8
LOIO2
A VIS
leasehold
conditionally.
The
Japanese
advanced
their position that
the railway
should be vperated
as
a joint China Jap-
anese
enterprise,
believing
this
to
em-
body conciliation, since
Germany,
whose
rights Japan
contends
she has inherited,
had controlled
the line entirely.
(‘hinese
students
staged
another
demonstration
today,
prior
to the
Shantung
meeting,
in
front
of the
Chinese
Headquarters.
Their efforis
were fruitless however,
as
the delegates
were
away.
Laier several
automobiles
filled with students
drove
ap
to the Pan- American building, where
the
meeting
was
held; but the
delegates
had
entered
the conference
before
the
stu-
dents
appeared.
Dublin,
Dec.
3rd.—Five
members
of
the Dail Eireann
cabinet
assembled
today
to consider
the
(Gouvernment’s
latest
pro-
posals
for
an
Irish
peacc
settlement.
There
is
lLittle optimism
as
to its decision
and
the
Sirn
Fein
peace
delegates
who
have returned
from
tondon
are reported
as
believing
the
revised
terms
will be
unacceptable
to
De Valera and his advis-
ers.
London,
Dec.
3rd.—The
armament
conference
itself
now
expected
by
the
United
States
administratior
to
deter
mine what outside
nations
will be invited
into
the
Washington
negotiations
as
they approach
conelusion.
Tokio,
Dec.
Brd.—The
Government
had
ecided
to
leave
the ratio
of
war-
ships entirely
in the
hands
of
Admiral
Baron Kato for decision
and has
commu-
nicated
to
him
to
that effect,
according
to apparently
authentic
reports
here.
Berlin,
Dee.
38i1d. —Foreign
Exchange
yesterday
recovered
substantially
from
a slump
causad
by
a
panicky
unloading
on
Thursday,
and
the
fecling
prevails
that
(he
flurry
was
only
a
one-day
affair.
The
financial
writers
apparent-
ly
have been
unable
w 0 locate
the
causes
for
the catastrouhial
drop
in siocks
and
foreign
money,
and
as
the
bourse
was
not
in session
yesterday,
they
content
themselves
with deferring
the
drawing
of
conclusions
until
oficial
trading
is
resumed
next
Monday
Thursday’s
ex
citement
is ascribed
in a
large
measure
to
a bad
case
of
‘‘stage fight’””
on
the
part
of
amateur
speculators.
Bankers
claimn
that
a sensational
drop of
several
hundred
points in leading industries,
com-
mercial
and
shipping
stocks,
was
whoi-
ly
out
of
roportion
to
their
intrinsic
value.
;
London,
Dec.
3rd.—A Reuter
despatch
from Adelaide says that consternation
has
been
caused
by
the
resignation
of
Sir
Archihald
Weigall as
Governor
of South
Australia
who
was exiremely popular
in
the
State.
In
a
letter
to
the
Govern-
ment,
Sit
Archihald
expresses
keen
re-
gret
that
he
is
obiiged
to
vacate
the
offices
and
explains
that
overseas
de-
ductions
absorbed
the
whole
of
his
salary,
leaving
a
considerable
balance
to
meet
on
expenditures
essential
to
the
maintenawce
of his office.
This
had been
met
by
private
means,
but
financial
obligations
recently place
upon him
and
Lady
Weigall in England,
rendered
the
continuance
of such
private expenditures
impossible.
It
is reported
that
Sir Wil-
liam
Allardyce,
Governor
of Tasmania,
is
shortly to resign
also,
because
of dis-
content
with
his salary,
which is £2,750.
Sir Arthur’s salary is £4,000.
London,
Dec.
#4th.—The
Irish
confer
ence reassembled
in Downing Street
this
afternoon
to discuss
the latest phrases
of
the
Irish situation,
Those
present
were
Mr. Lloyd George,
Mr. Austen
Chamber-
lain, Viscount
Birkenhead
and
Sir Robt.
Horne,
representing
Great Britain,
and
Arthur Griffith, Robt.
Barton and George
Gavan Duffy, representing
the SinnFein-
ers.
The general
impression
of the situ-
ation
after
the
meeting
was
a
very
gloomy
one.
The
Irishmen
submitted
the result
of the Dail
Eireanns
examina-
tion of
the latest
proposals
of
the
Gov-
ernment,
and
pointed
out
where
they
were
nnacceptable.
They
had
sa.d
no
more
on Thursday
night
than
that
the
proposals
required
full
consideration,
and had
not
yvielded
any points
in
dis-
pute.
The
meeting
of
the
Daii
Eir-
eann
cabinet
in
Dublin
on
Satur-
day
emphasized
the
principles
in-
volved in
thé
scheme
and
the
impres-
sion
conveyed
was
that
no
priveiple
would
be
sacrificed
to
obtain
Ulsters
assent,
or
to
put
Ulster
in
the
wrong
if it refused
assent.
Mr. Lloyd George’s
difficulty,
according
to
those
in
close
touch
with him.
is that he
cannot
ask
Ul-
ster
to agree
to any
terms
which British
opinion w~uld not endorse.
He is firm in
the
s:and
that
the
allegiance
questicn
cannot
be abandoned
or camouflaged,
and
this it is said,
has proved
the most insup-
erable
of
all
the
obstacles
to
a
settle-
ment.
The proposal
that the King might
be
recognized
4s
head
of
the
British
Federation
of
Free States,
but
no
King
of Ireland,
was
objeeted
to by
thke Brit-
ish
Ministers.
It
was
deciared
that
it
would
ke
scouted
by
Ulster
and
would
not be intelligible to the
British electors.
An
attempt
szs
made
to
dev
se
some
form of allegiance
the
Sinn Fein
might
accept,
but
this
apparently
proved
un
suceessful.
The
Crux
of
partition
was
almoest
equally
serious.
The
Sine
Fein
regards
Irish
unity as
fundamental
and
was
firm
thai
no
propusal
ailmed
it
securing
Ulster’s
assent
should
prove
a
possible
permanent
bar
The
seven
British
representatives
of
the
original
Irish
conference
are
expected
to
meet
tomorrow.
1t
is
presumed
this
meei-
ing may
be preliminary
tu
declaring
th2
conference
off
=itogeiher.
As
thinus
stand
the
net
result,
in
ihe
opinion of
the
comimentators,
will
be
to inrow the
onus of the ~ollapse of the Sinn Fein
and
this
will bring
ithe
Premier
te the posi-
tion he assumed
before
the
negotiations
started,
that
British
law rust
be
main-
tained
and
authority
scught
for drastic
action,