Baron
Havashi
said
that
Japar
as
a power having great
shipping interests
in
the
Mediterranean,
hoped
for trade
in the
Black
Sea
and
was
vitally inter-
ested
in the regulation of the Near
East-
ern
waters.
He added that
the address
of Lord Curzon
had
assured
him
that
a
solution of the Straits question
was‘rear.
Lord Curzon opened
the
session
with
a
long
detailed
review
of the
points
on
which the Turks
differed
from
the
Eu-
tente
‘plan
and
replied
to questions
on
which
Ismet
Pasha
had
asked
fur-
ther information at the morning
session.
His
address
indicated
that
most
of
the
questions
which the Entente and Turks dif-
fe ed
on,
were proper subjects
for
discus-
siop in an informal
way by
military and
naval experts
and expiessed
the
opinion
that such
a
dis~ussion
would
bring
tor-
watd
the necessary
techincal
information
which would undoubtedly
form
the
basis
for ageement.
The
only harsh
note
cf
the session
eame
when
M. Tchitcherin
and
M.
Rakovsky,
also
of
the
Russian
delegation,
demanded
that
Russia
be
ad-
mitted
to ali
informal discussions
which
may
take
place
between
the
military
and paval experts of the
Turks
2nd
the
Entente
on
the
Straits
question.
Lord
Curzon
held
this
would
be
impossible,
these
discussions
would be
informal
and
wholly unofficial.
;
Washingtcn,
December
Bth.—Pres:dcnt
Harding in his annual
message,
deliver-
ed
today
to
Congzress
in
person,
deals
with
pearly
a
score
of
subjects,
chief
anong
them
being
prohibition,
farm
credits,
the
transportation
problem,
child labour
and
immigration.
The
ex-
ecutive announced
his
purpose
to
invite
the
governors
of
the
States
and
terri-
tories
to
an
early
conference
with
the
Federal
executive
authorities,
with
a
view
to
adopting
definite
policies
of
national
and
state
cooperation
in
ad-
ministering
the
probhibition
laws.
With
regard
to
the
transportaticn
problem,
Mr. Hardirg
propcsed
that
the
United
Sta'es
Railway
lakour
Board
bLe
abol-
ished,
with the
substitution
of
a
labour
division
in
the
inter-state
ccmmerce
ccmmissicn
with ample power
to require
Unpited
States
tulirgs
to
be
accepted
by both
parties
to
a
disputed
question.
The
executive
also
proposcs
that
the
law require
the
carriers
and
their
em-
ployees
to institute
means
and
methcds
to
negotiate
between
themselves
their
constantly
arising
difficulties,
limiting
appeals
to
tke
Goverrment
kody
to
disputes
of
such
character
as
are
hke-
ly to
affect
the
puflic
welfare.
Co
or-
dination
of
.all
transjortaticn
facili-
ties
throughcut
the
Urited
States,
is
urged
by
the
President.
Tkese
would
include
not
only
inland
waterways,
lkut
motor
truck. trapspertaticn
es well,
As
to lhe carriers
themselves,
Mr.
Feardirg
suggests
as ways
of increased
econcmy
erd «fliciercy tLeicty, amearger
cf
lires
into
systems
for tteirterckerge
cf the
freight cais,
the consolidaticn
of facilities
Sl.
LtRU
1 X
A YLS
and the economic
use of terminals.
More
extended
eredit for the farmers
is strong-
ly urged by the executiv2.
He states
that
the farm loan bureau
may
well
have
its
powers
enlarged
to provide
ample farm
production
credits,
as
well
as
enlargel
land credits.
Enaetment
of .egislation
, r
-
viding for registration
of aliens
and
lor
mor?2
thorough examination
of emigrants
at
the 'ports
of emlrarkation
is
urged.
The
President
says ‘‘there is
«
recrude-
scene of hyphenated
Anmericanism
which
we
thought
to
have
been
stamped
out
wnen
we committed
the arion’s
life and
soul
to the world war’’ and adds that
ad-
vocated
of
revolution
are
abusinz
the
hospitality-of
the United
States.
In
the
course
of
a
brief
reference
1o
general
world conditions,
Mr.
Harding
asserted
that
‘‘the
inevitable
readjustment
of
social
and
economic
order
is
not
more
than
barely
bagtin’
<cnd
continued,
“‘there wiil never again
be
precisely
'he
oid order,
ind~ed I know of
no
one
who
thinks it to b 2 desirable,
-for
out
of
the
old order
caine
the
war iiseif,
and
the
new order,
established
and
mad:2
secure,
never will pertit its recurrence.
Itis no
fizure of speech
to say
we
have
come
to
the
test
of
our
ecivilization.
The
world
has
been
passing,
is
today
passing,
througha grea:
crisis.
The
conduct
of
war
itself
is
not:
more
difficuit
than
the
solution
of
th:
problems
which
neceassarily
follow’’. . Later
oa
in
hbis
speech,
in connection
with
his
advocacy
of
a
plan
to
draft
all
the
resources
the United States
have
in
men
and
ma-
terial
for
national
defence,
he
declar-
ed.
‘‘every
experience
in
the
adjust-
ment
and
liquidation of
war claims
and
the settlement
of war oblieations,
demon-
strated
the
necessity
of
preparedness,’”’
and added
*‘l bring
you
no apprehension
of
war,
the
world is abhorrent
of it and
our
cwn relations
are
not only free
from
any threatening
cloud,
but
we
have
con-
tributed
our larger influence toward mak-
ing armed
conflict less likely.
Those
who
assumed
tha:
we
played
our part
in the
world war and
later
took ourselves
aloof
and
apart,
unmindful
of
world
obliga-
tions, give scant
credit
to the helpful part
we
assumed
in
international
relation-
ships.”’
Washington,
Dec.
9th.—Great
signifi-
cance
is
attached
here
to
a
phkrase
of
President
Harding’s
address
to
Con-
gress
which
lelates
to
werld
affairs.
He declares
his belief
that
the four pow-
er pact,
which
akolishes
probsbility
of
war
on
the
Pacific,
might
be
made
a
model
for
like
assirarces
whereever
in the world
any
common
interests
are
concerned.
While
tbhe
FPresident
does
not specifically
lecommend
the
m:king
of a pact
like the four powers
pact which
would exterd
to
FKEuropean
eaffairs,
or
certzin’laige
pheses
of tham,
it
is
the
view herethat
this is interded
to
svg-
gest
an
understarndirg.
he
pcesilility
that this is the
fcereruiner f 4 atien pt
to
call
another
conference,
to
be
lLeld
in Washington,
is
believed
by
many
to
be al the bck of
the
President’s
words
on this subjeect.
_
London,
Dee. 9:h.—The
conference
of Allied Premiers
held
a
two hour
sec-
sion this afternoon,
adjourning
for
lur-
cheon.
The heads
of
all
four
deleg:-
tions, British;French,
Ita'ian and Belgi-
an
addressed
the
gathering,
M.
Pui:-
caie holding the flror the
longest.
Wl
e
M. Pcincare
was
reported
not
to have
reached the
point
of
definite
proposals
he
declared
the
reparations
questicn
had arrived at
a stage
where
something
radical
must
be
done.
He
came
pie-
pared,
he said.
to discuss
with the othr s
what action should
be
taken.
Franc
’s
great interests;
he
insisted,
must
ke
re-
cognized.
M. Plincare
appeared
perturb-
ed when
he left his hotel for
the
confer-
ence,
having
just
made
a
denial
of
a
ch:rge
that
France
intends
to annex
the
Rhine
region.
He
was
in
good
spirits,
however.
when
he returned,
from
which
the French
attaches
d-ew
the
inference
that the confererce
was going well.
Dublin.
Deec.
9th.— All the memberslip
of the Senate_has
been
completed.
It will
have four
women
members,
the Dowagar
Countess
Desart
and
Mrs.
Wyse
Pow-
er,
nominated
by
the
President
of the
Dnil, Mrs. Green,
the
historian,
and Mrs.
Costello,
both
of
whom
were
elected
by the Lower House
Chamber.
There
is
=
considerable
democcratic
element
in
these
elections
made
by the Dail,
several
members
bzing farmers
or traders.
One
of the Senator
is a road
maker.
Constnotinople,
Dee.
10ih.—The Gr.ek
High Commissioner
has
been
ordered
to
quit Constantinople.
The Armenian
Pa-
triarch is
preparing
to
flee.
According
to
a despatch
from Angora,
the
Nation:|
Assemb'y
has chosen
Dr.
Adenen
Bey
to
represent
the
Nationalists
in Constan
i-
nople, and
Rafet
Pasha
will proceed
to
Thrace
to
take
up
there
his
duties
2os
Military Governor.
Adanen
Bey
is
the
husbard
of
Salibedibe,
ho
hasa
wide
reputation
as
a poetess.
Heis
a
Minis
ter of
Edueation
in the Nationalist
Gov-
ernment.
Heis
a
distinguished
Physi-
cian
and
enjoys
the
esteem
of all
fac-
tions
[ondon,
Dec.
9th.——The
amalgamation
of Transjordania
and
Palestine
into
one
state,
with
complete
internal
autonomy
for each,
is favoured
by Emir
Abdullab.
the Transjordania
ruler,
who the
Jewish
telegraphic
agency
learns
broached
his
scheme
during
his
visit to London,
He
proposed
that
he
be
King
of the New
State,
v.ith full assurance
to
the
Zionist
that
the erection
of the
Jewish
National
home and the Balfour declaration,
as well
as
the Ziorist policy of
the
British
Gov-
ernment,
would be safeguarded.
Washington,
Dec. 9th.- Farin advance
of the usual
time,
the Hcuse
today passed
the treasury
appropriat
on
bill,
the
first
of
the
biz
supply
measures.
lt carries
$115.000,000,
of which §59,000,000
«ili be
for prohibition enforcement.