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21 Sectlca ction All- the' News That's Fit to Print" THE WEATHER i tin today and Monday; I southeast I 1 1 eaterday St; waatW report rasa St. Snow or rain Increasing Tsmparatare- yesterday C- For fall VQU. 23,388. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1922. In Nine Parts issiasiej iitimm rum saeuae.

NHUlM SOTtlM. FIVE CENTS la Manhattan, -1 nd rtcd 7' 7 FINISHES WORK, APPROVING TWO TREATIE, s-V OF ALL DELEGATIONS HAIL BIG ACHIEVEMENTS; JAPAN AND CHINA FORMALLY SIGN THE SHANTUNG 7 Tin9 IT9 7Tb IT? IX JT LEADERS TREATY i FA i i ORDINALS AGAIN FETO ELECT POPE; PREPARE FR SIEGE Crowd Waits All Day Before Vatican, but Smoke Shows No Election. UID IN Casparri Withdraws 120,000 Lire From Bank1r Preparation for Long Conclave. CAUSE CONFUSION Uoraing Followed by a Rush t9 Laara Suppoood Result Great Expected Today. P.OMX.

Teh. 4 (Associated Press). The balloting of the members of the cerad College for the amiessot of Pop Benedict XV. today again proved fruitless, Jo hortlr before sundown the vast crowds wold, had assembled around the atican aad Petera dispersed with even greater, disappointment than on the evening, when fallare to aelect a Pontiff was anneaneed.br the black smoke Issuing from he Slstlno. la untangling- the iaawiwe' assemblage r.t mhMim aixl htrlM At all mnrtm UiAt wero massed together awaiting UiroughoBt tbo dar final aanounce- mwt.

Bat. altboagfe tnere was eonsld- Kl Isan? fi onlx few minor occurred. cams from the Vatican that the Cardinals Marml. Pompaj and -cClert who were suffering; from in-. cia or" colds had sufficiently recov- rd to- take a personal part In Vp pro-vlIjigo-today.

Ia consequence of this, thm work of balloting' was eonslderabljr facilitated. Bat tmpedetrable secrecy urrooads the deUberatlona of the Con-elAve." ad nothing; has been divulged thus far that Indicate the posl- tici la the voting- of the varloua Cardi nals. Reports appearing- In the newa-(xters purporting- to relate to the prog rvca made ta the Conclave are character ised by efflclaU as absurd fantastic Kr 8ppHes Bosgha. Pr1or to the opening; of the Conclave. Cbe.Vaticaa was stocked with what was considered an' ample food supply to tarry tha Cardlnala through the election period, out It became necessary today to withdraw 130.000 Ure from the bank tor further provisions, portending- a protracted duration of the Conclave, in which wvent Cardinal Arch-hUhop of Boston, who is speeding- to Rome, win likely arrive in time to take part ta the.

later sessions. Wo definite asaouncement has come from the conclave as to the course to be pur toed ea Sunday. Ia some Quarters It is beliered that the- waual work of the conclave would be suspended for the religious essemonles ta which the Car-4Ui1m wCl take part among- themselves. But as they make their own rules of procedure, they could. If they so desired.

proceed With tha balloting on Sunday. There Is no disposition, however, to 4' -L la advance what procedure may te adopted or when another vote will' takea-v Interest In the balloting; Is increasing aa each succeeding- vote shows that the ff nave sent ninw rvma ui. c-iry two-thirds. Tbo crowds, this a in St. Square were 7 fxr the largest since- the office of rmtr secsme vacant.

And while the stutade of tbo people has been marked by paUence, signs of nervousness and 'S tension are not lacking- among gather and argue la behalf their respective preferences. Both rerterrlar and todsy there was confusion ewicg to the Issuance of white smoke. when the.ballots were first set on fire, taterpreted by many of the watchers that a selection had ben made. Then where aiose tbe cry: They have thosea the Pope: It is Gasparri. Lss- rtl, Lualdl.

Rattl "according; to the iaire or hope. Tiers is a feeling among some of tbe I -Jatee that the Sacred College will ad- h-re to precedent and not announce Its olee ba the evening, on the ground aaornins; is more solemn for such some, lean to uie oeuei 1 -t by the withdrawal of a large sum from the bank, the Canterlengo. Car-1 inal Gasparri. Is preparing for a long as divergence develops within the conclave walls and no compromise is visible. Notwithstanding the uncertainty of tomorrow's proceedings.

Sunaay will be a tanner day for the people of Rome, the biost of whom will probably await In the ast piazza the possibility of soma an-Couacemeat. -v. -Teas Taraag Befara laa Tatleaa. Every square foot In front of St, Trier's and the Vatican was occupied today long before the afternoon conclave 2mbU" onlookers, at 8O.OS0. extended to theMde square.

th th vaat esplanade also were hundreds of vehicles. lh w'n of black smoke told the throngs that th Pontificate was till vacant they quickly dlaperaed, a Cmmttmmr aa Tare. FLORIDA TJM-fL20 P- M- R- R- Solid Pullman 721? '-tr Observation ears SiiMrlar -m ovmcv. it; it 4ii. Advu Stolen American Autos Clog the Mexican Market WASHINGTON, Feb.

4. Stolen American automobiles are overrunning the Mexican market, according to a report to the Commerce Department today from Consul John W. Dye at Juarez. The report said ao many automobiles, stolen in the United States, were being sold in Northern Mexico for about half their market value that the legitimate automobile sale business waa seriously affected. The cars, the report adJ-sd.

come principally from California, and points near the Mexican border, although some have come from as far as Chicago. JUSTICE CLARKE WARNS OF PERILS Says Suffrage Has Created Electorate Larger Than Ever Governed Itself Successfully. DRY ACT STRAIN ON ALL LAW Difficult to See nd of Changing People's Habits Trivialities Clog High Court. adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment giving: -equal suffrage has created an electorate larger than has ever successfully governed Itself under representative government and the prohibition amendment hag put a strain on the country the end of which is difficult to see. amid Associate Justice John H.

Clark oC the United States Supreme Court at the annual dinner of the New York Vniverslty Law 8chool alumni In the Hotel BUtmor.last night. We are living In a new world, a world so new that our past experience can be of little service to us. save to give us warning." said Justice Clarke. The resort to applied science for agencies for the destruction of life and property In the late war warns us that unless our civilisation' devises some means to make an end of war. war will make an end of our civilization.

"The fate of Russia warns us that our existing social order, stable though It 'seems, may not long endure, even when buttressed by great armies, unless the masses of the people, on whom, at last, all governments rest, are given a fair share of that comfort and safety which it should be the first purpose of very Government to provide for those who live under It. The fate of Germany warns us that no Government is strong enough to live in this new world without the friendship of other nations. "If we look about us In foreign affairs we see the statesmen at Washington and London, at Paris and Rome and Toklo searching, as never before, for some basis for the reorganization of a world that has fallen into international anarchy. Whether such reorganisation shall oe through a world court, such as is In the process of formation at The Hague, or through an association or alliance of some nations, or through a league of all nations, to promote the peace of the world, the part which the legal profession must take in such readjustment must of necessity be very great. View ef Heme Affairs If we consider home affairs we find oarjT under tbe Nineteenth Amend- ment, at the beginning of an experiment of conducting representative government with an electorate very much larger than has ever successfully governed Itself in the past under that form of political organization.

So great an electorate must necessarily require such large expenditure of money, simply to inform voters of the merits of candidates and of what the Issues are. that there will necessarily be brought into conspicuous operation tbe oldest and worst foe of free government, unless some new method of Informing citizens can be devised. But the structure is safest that has the broadest base. "The Eighteenth Amendment required millions of men and women to abruptly ylva yp habits and customs of life which Cawtlmed Face Niaetaea. 'Woman of 107 Dies, Leaves 34 Descendants; Credited Age to Hard Wjth body clothed In a shroud made children, great-grandchildren and inn vears old.

Mrs. Sarah Whit- great-grandchildren. thard 'is dead at the home of her son Thomas T. Wnltthard. 77 years old.

-492 East 138th Street, the Bronx. She was 107 years old. Death came on Friday from the Infirmities of age. Mrs. Wnltthard was born In London on March 12.

1815. and came to the United States thirty-five years ago with her son. Mrs. Wfcltthard was remarkable In mnnthi aro she had been mai uiiui nf Ahold. Whitthard is a plasterer and despite his 77 y' last night that ho never had been forced to call upon a younger man to hn In his work.

He said that at years his mother took a trip to Toronto and returned unaccompanied. At nj broke a leg and lay in a torp'Ul 14 weeks, but had so far recovered that on h-r looth birthday she "was able to sing- five aona-a for her assembled trand- "Mill," Max. Wed. hlrh.r. Ziegfeld Production Mad lyn Miller.

Leon Errol. at New Amsterdam Theatre. dvt. SLAIN MOVIE MAN HAD CAREER HERE; II Taylor Is Revealed as W. C.

Deane-Tanner, Who Disappeared in 1908. WIFE IS NOW MRS. ROBINS She and Daughter Later Recognized Him in Film and Met Him on His Way to Europe. BROTHER ALSO LEFT FAMILY Los Angeles Inquest Results in Formal Verdict Without Hesring All Actresses Called. The murder of William Desmond Taylor In Hollywood, which was found yesterday by a Coroner's Jury atlxie Angeles to be the work of an unknown assassin, haa.

served to bring to light the. past life of himself and his brother In New York, where they were known under their rightful name of Deane-Tanner. and to reveal curious coincidences In the lives of both men. Both apparently abandoned their wives and children and vanished, the elder to turn up as Taylor, the moving picture director of unusual ability, and the younger to remain a mystery. Taylor was William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, a member of a food fanv Uy of Dublin.

Ireland. He married Miss Ethel May Harrison, a member jef. the original Florodora company, whose rigm name was Hamilton. She was the daughter of a broker. Taylor abandoned her in 1908.

and in 1914 she got a divorce and married Edward I C. Robins. Treasurer of the S. M. Robins Company, which conducts a number of restaurants In the financial district and owns Del-mo nico's restaurant.

When Mrs. Robins heard yesterday that bits of her former husband's past life in New York were becoming known, and that her marriage to him was known, she issued a statement in which she definitely established that Taylor, the murdered moving-picture man, and Deane-Tanner. the former dealer In English antiques on Klfth Avenue, were the same person. I married In December. 1901.

Mr. William Cunningham Deane-Tanner of Dublin. Ireland." said Mrs. Robins. He disappeared In October 1908.

We could assign no reason for his disappearance except possible aphasia. In 1912 I got a decree of divorce in the State of New York, and was awarded the custody of my only child. Ethel Isy Deane-Tanner. now 19, in August, 1914. I married Edward L.

C. Robins. Two and a half years ago I discovered that William Desmond Taylor had been Mr. Deane-Tanner. 1 have no further statement which possibly could be of Interest.

The news of Mr. Deane-Tanner'a death was a great shock to my daughter and me." Wife Abselves Hlsa ef Blame. Mrs. Robins was seen later at her home in Mamaropeck. a cottage about two miles south of the station, and talked more freely about her first husband, whom she absolved of all blame in leaving htr because she thought was mentally upset at the time.

She also revealed that she had met him In New York for a few moments before he sailed for Europe about a year ago. and that her daughter had been in constant correspondence with him. Mm. Robins la an attractive woman. She was dresM-d in a dark blue silk frock and wore a gulden ornament on a black silk cord about her neck.

She Is a woman of chawm and courtesy, terms which she applied to Deane-Tanner in describing; him. The exact reason for Deane-Tanner leaving his home haa always a mystery to her, ar.d she never aake him about It after her daughter bvjran to write to him cr when ihe saw him at the pier. It waa Just like a man picking up his hat jto leave the house," was the way she put It. He left all his Coatinaed Pass Twaaty. Work and Temperance Mother never had been to a dentist In her fife and her teeth were in excellent shape when ahe died." Whitthard aid.

She never rode in an automobile. During the war when she saw airplane flying overhead she expressed a to fly. but she never did. She was a firm believer in home rule for Ireland nn.l in women's rights. She thought that hard work and temperance were rcsponsibl for her long life.

She had hoped to live to be 100 years old. and when she made the shroud in which her body I. wrapped she said that she would no' have any use for It for ten years or so." Besides her son. Mrs. Whitthard is survived by nineteen grandchildren.

elsht (rreat-rrandchildren. and six great-z-reat-s-randchlldren. the youintcst of whom Is five years old. A son. William, died at 3 years, and a daughter.

Jwio, died when 70 years old. Services will be hold at Whltthard's home today by the Rev. William H. Kephart. pastor of the Northern New York Congregational Church.

In East 14Sd Street. Interment will be In Woodlawn Cemetery. eKGl SOLS KVEKY WHERE. Advt. DESERTED HIS WIFE American Relief Saves Austrian Intellectuals VIENNA, Feb.

4. The American Relief Administration has notified President Hainisch that $200,000 has been allotted for the relief of Austrian Intellectual workers. This aid comes Just at the proper moment, as public kitchens were forced to close yesterday. An Immediate result of the receipt of this money will be the accommodation at university kitchens of 3,000 additional students and 700 more professors. INFLUENZA MAY HUSH TALKING IN SUBWAY Health Authorities Considering Silence to Protect Healthy Riders From Carriers of Disease MORE CASES, FEWER DEATHS Decline in Mortality an Encouraging Sign Dr.

Park Defends Pneumonia Vaccine. Influenza and pneumonia continued to Increase yesterday, cases of each disease being reported In greater numbers 'than on any day since the epidemic started. If the increase continues over today and Monday it is probable that the Health Department will Isaue regulations of the opening and closing hours of different classes of factories and business, in order to dlrolnlah the peak of congestion in the subways during present rush-hour periods. A request may be Issued to the public to refrain from talking In the subways and (o take effective precautions to smother sneezes and coughs, because talking and sneezing are now regarded as the chief causes of the spread of the disease. Many persons are carriers of tbe disease germs and spread the disease for days before symptoms manifest themselves, and others are carriers and spread the disease for some time after their apparent recovery.

On this account, no one can feel safe in talking, and close-range conversations ought to be discontinued during the epidemic, according to medical autr critics. The report of the Health Department on cases of pneumonia and influenza yesterday was as follows Caaes. Deatha, Infl. I1u. Infl.

Piwu. Manhattan tuul SO Bronx 340 39 1 ltrooklyn 3.M 83 ft 17 Queena 2H II 2 Richmond 12 3 0 2 Total 1.2f7 222 0 Total Friday 1.123 2ue 13 72 Eateearaged by Deetlae la Deaths. The fact that there was a decrease in deaths in both diseases encouraged Health Department authorities to believe that the epidemic might be on the wane. More mlance is placed at this stage of the epidemic on the inferences to be drawn from the reports of deaths than from the reports of new cases. The publicity about the epidemic has caused prompter reporting of cases by physicians, so that the reported cases would probably siiow an- Increase, even though the epidemic itself remained atationary.

On the other hand, the reports of deaths are subject to fluctuation from this cause. Dr. William H. Park, Director of Laboratories for the Health Department, said yesterday that the adverse comments of the State Health Department on the uae of vaccine did not mean that the State health authorities disapproved its use. I talked yesterday to the physician of the State Health Department, who is authority for the statement to he effect that the value of the vaccine has not been proved, and he agreed with me that It haa been established that the vaccina does protect many persons, though It will not protect all.

It takes three injections, accompanied by reactloi of somevseverlty to confer immunity, and the effect only lasts throOgh the Winter. There are some persona whom the vaccinations will not protect. The question I simply whether a man wants to go through the experience In return for a (food chance of oetnr Immunised. He may decide for himself whether so high' a premium for Insurance against pneumonia is worth paying. Dr.

Park ea Vaccine Testa. The tests of the vaccine in the State Inntitutlona were discarded, not because the results were unfavorable, but because they were too favorable for the acclne. It was found that the persona arclnated were usually the healthy ones. ami the unvacclnated ones used aa controls were usually unhealtlty ones. This rendered the tests valuelet.

A largo number of physicians have taken part in the development of the vaccine, and 1 believe they all agree as to Its value." HeHlth Commissioner Copeland Issued the following; statement yesterday: Since Jan. 1 we have had 1HO influenza deaths and 1,407 pneumonia deaths. In the same period In 1921. when there was no epidemic 59 died from Influenza and 1.14S died from pneumonia. The increase from the combined deaths this year is only 3CJ over last year.

Apparently we have a widespread prevalence of a very mild form of the disease. Manhattan, with Its bad housing conditions, continues to bear the brunt of the attack. Half of the rases reported have been confined to this borough. Even though the disease is of a mild our precautions mut be carried out. The Health lepartment is active in its ins eclion.

Fifty-seven arrfsta were made today for unclean food and utensils In restaurants. Twenty-six were Bummoned to court for smoking- and seventy for spitting in subway stations. Sixty-one casea were tried in Magistrates' Courts and fines Imposed." The Greenbrier. WbJts Sntphor Springs, W. Va Splendid for Winter rast and versa too.

Bookings The FLaxA- A4rl. MILLER SAYS STATE IS READY TO ASSUME CONTROL OF SCHOOLS Will Not Let "Slimy Trail of Politics" Be Dragged Through Education System. RENT LAWS TO CONTINUE Governor Tells Real Estate Men Relief Legislation Will Be in Force Another Year. FOR 'ADEQUATE' HOME RULE Cheered When He Denounces Poll, tics In Schools, but Groans Greet Rent Announcement. Governor Nathan I Miller, speaking at the dinner of the Real Estate Board of New York at the Hotel Commodore last night, said the State was supreme in matters of education and Invited citizens of New York City to appeal to Albany if they believed, as had been suggested, that an 'attempt had been made to drag the slimy trail of politics through the schools.

The Governor warned his hearers, more than a thousand in number, that the rent laws would be continued for another year, and asked them to face tbe Inevitable and co-operate to relieve the housing situation so that these rent laws, which he characterized as temporary and temporising, might be repealed. Governor Miller reiterated his belief in the principle of home rule, but asserted Ust port development and transit were not municipal problems. He declared that both would be solved by the agency of State-appointed commissions with such assistance from local agencies as they might be able to ob tain. Applause greeted the Governor's re marks on the school situation and groans his assertion that the rent laws would be continued. a State Kespeaslbla far Sehaels.

The Governor's remarks concerning the schools were taken to apply to charges that the recent election of an Associate Superintendent was influenced by politics and to the long continued fued between Dr. William Lt Ettlnger, Superintendent, and the City Administration. Education la a State function," the Governor said. The State selects the locality, the machinery of the locality and makes it the agency of the State to work out the school problem. But the State does not discharge its full responsibility by doing that.

"If the locality falls to discharge its responsibility, the duty is still resting upon the State, because the education of our future citizens is absolutely vital to the very permanence of our institutions. And so to illustrate what I have to say. although we rely upon the local agencies to handle the school problem in part, with the assistance of our State Department of Education, whenever the time comes that those powers are abused, then it is time for the State to Intervene. Whenever the time cornea as is suggested in the public press, or has been recently, that any effort is made to extend political Influence over the school system of any locality, whenever an effort is made to drag the slimy trail of politics through our schools, then the time haa arrived for the State to say Stop Favors Aaeoaete Heme Bale, I have recently deplored the tendency which 1 think ought to be checked, to rush to Albany for legislation as to matters of purely local concern, which ought to be settled locally, and I am In favor of having adequate power vested in local agencies to settle those problems. While I have deplored the (act that the tendency haa been to contribute in the past to the revenues of the transportation facilities between here snd Albany by citizens of New York traveling there to secure action which ought to be secured locally, yet when It comes to a matter such aa that to which I have referred.

let me say to you that any means of transportation which will get you to Albany the ijuickest, I advise you to take." Earlier in his sptech the Governor referred to the imi-ortance of the real estate, business. He said he believed much of rhe loss in real estate values in certain parts of New York City had been caused by lack of foreaight in providing for transit facilities, with the result thai these were created in makeshift fashion to supply temporary needs and tended to cause congestion, the very thing to be avoided. The Governor said he did not intend to discuss either transit or port development in detail, aa had been suggested in his Introduction by Charles G. Edwards. President of the Real Estate Board aid toastmaster.

Heailng Another Problem. Referring to the housing situation, he aald Tou have another problem here which I imagine you are keenly Interested In, and that is the housing problem. I am not going, to undertake to solve that problem: that Is too airri-cult also for an after-din nee speech. DOXT STTTER KKOM r3tVt01lTipj. UEU-ANS GIVES QUICK Hope That America Will Stay in World Councils ls Voiced by Schanzer, Urging Durable Peace WASHINGTON.

Feb. 4 -(Associated Press) in Italy's last message to the arms conference, as voiced by Senator Schaaxer. was a reference to the coming economic conference to be held at Genoa, coupled with an expression of hope that the United States would not now withdraw from the councils of the powers. The economic situation. Senator Schanzer said, presented a problem which naturally must come more and more to the front as the world attempted to scale down armaments and return to the ways of peace.

Referring: to the question of limiting land armaments, the Senator said: We must not continue to turn in this vicious circle; namely, that it is not possible to reduce armaments because the economic Questions between nations have not yet been settled, and. on the other hand, that the economic questions cannot be settled because it Is impossible to reduce armaments. An energetic effort is necessary so aato break this vicious circle, and this cannot be accomplished without the joint cooperation of the good-wlli of all nations. It is necessary above all to promote a spirit of peace and solidarity among peoples as has been done in this conference." The Italian delegation head appealed to the nations represented to continue on the path we have followed here and devote all of our forces in order to dissipate such causes of conflict and to bring; about that atmosphere of secure coexistence and mutual tolerance between nations, falling which a durable peace Is impossible." Senator Lodge Sees Good Results As the Conference Ends Its Labor Declares limitation of Battleship Tonnage and Gun Calibres Ut Outstanding Aclaevcment Balfour, Schanzer, De Cartier and Borden Also Find Much to Praise in the Final Outcome, Special to Tha WASHINGTON. Feb.

4. The outstanding achievement of tha Conference for the Limitation of Armament, in the opinion of Senator Lodge, one of the American delegates and Chairman of tbe Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, to which committee the treaties will be referred, is the limitation of the tonnage of first line battleships and the calibre of guns, which, he asserts, means an end to competition in armaments. He Insists -that the four-power treaty contains no suggestion of an alliance, tha only obligation assumed by the signatories being the obligation, to talk matters over before resorting to arms. The conference which practically closed today." said Senator Lodge, although the signing of the treaties win take place on Monday morning, has been. 1 think, very successful and has been owing chiefly to the fact that It was limited In subject: and by not trying to do too much it succeeded in doing something real and practical and of real benefit to the United States and to the world.

The conference was confined by the President's Invitation to the limitation of armaments and questions relating to the Far East and the Far East meant China. We had three principal objectives the limitation of armaments, the termination of the 'Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and aid to China which would help her to establish her Government and secure a real Independence. All three objectives have been attained, if not with completeness, which, of course, was impossible in the case of China, yet In a very large measure, As France, owing to her situation, was unable to reduce her land forces, the efforts of the conference were directed to naval armament- The three great naval powers the United States. Great Britain and Japan have reduced their capital ships and brought them down to a point where In ten years they will number fifteen for Great Britain, fifteen for the United Sutes and ten for Japan. Taaaage Umltatisa Important.

It is this reduction of capital ships which has very naturally chiefly attracted public attention, but the reduction involving abandonment or destruction of many capital ships was not the most Important feature of the limitation. The great achievement, to my mind, was the limitations In the tonnage of ships and the calibre of guns, for this means an end to competition in armaments, and naval competition was the real danger. Supplementing this with the naval holiday by which no building can be undertaken before 1947 except for replacements under certain limited conditions, we may truly say that the conference haa succeeded in not only a reduction, but a permanent reduction. In naval armaments, putting an end to competition both in guns and tonnage, and this limitation of guns and tonnage extends beyond capital ships and includes all auxiliary vessels as well. The second achievement was what is popularly known as the four-power rteaty.

by which the four nations holding insular possessions or dominions in the Pacific terminated the Anglo-Japanese alliance an alliance which carried in It the seeds of future troubles in the Pacific region. This was the one all-important point in the four-power treaty. The rest of it simply provides that France. Great Britain, the United States and Japan will renpect each other's rights in their Insular possessions or dominions In the Pacific, and if a controversy arises they will consult before taklwg any further stgps. The treaty contains no possibility or any alliance and no obligation whatever beyond the obligation' to consult In case of a controversy, and no nation is bound by the results of the consultation- Return of Shantnag.

In regard to China, the outstanding and most Important result was. of course, the return of the Province of Shantung by Japan to China. lthln months that trl province will be returned to China: Japanese troops will be all withdrawn: everything settled about the mines and the salt works and all that Japan retains in the railroad is a traffic manager, who will be appointed by and will be under tha York Time. Chinese managing; director. China Issues treasury notes to pay for the rail road, to run tor fifteen years, bat which can be redeemed at the end of five years, so that China has practically regained her great province with con ditions so' trifling that they have no serious weight.

At the same time. Great Britain haa announced that she will return Wei-Hai- Wci. which is part of ths ghantonf peninsula, to China. This was dons necessarily outside the conference by a treaty between. dapanAnd China, but it was owing; to the conference entirely that tha treaty was successfully Apart from the Shantung settlement other things were don by the conference of the highest value to China.

First, was the general treaty by which the signatories all bound themselves to respect the Integrity and the independence, both political territorial, of China, It provides for China's neutral Ity, for tha open door and many ether points of very great moment. Then there are a number of declarations mads by the conference and 'unanimously agreed to which relieve China, In the matter of foreign Post foreign troops, extra-territorial Jurisdiction and other points of the same kind. "This is not all that the conference did. but these three main points, which were the chief purposes of the confer ence, were all carried. I cannot but believe that the work of the conference not only will help to re lieve in a large measure the nations of the earth from the burden of naval ex penditures, but I also believe that the work of the conference has done much to promote and maintain the future peace of the world over a great area of the world's surface.

The Far East la a region where international disputes and wars oetween nations are easily bred, and a great deal has been done to remove that danger from the coming yeara, SAYS CONFERENCE DID WHAT LEAGUE COULDN'T Balfour Declares the Washington Boiy 'Epoch-Making' in Its Achievements. Special to The A'eio York Timet. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.

Repeating his allegiance to the League of Nations. Arthur James Balfour, as he took formal leave of President Harding today, declared that the Conference on Limitation of Armament had accomplished things that the League of Nations could not have hoped to do. Epoch-making, as he believes the conference's achievements, the head of the British delegation saw nothing in them to point the way to the Association of Nations proposed by Mr. Harding when he was a candidate for Preaident. Mr.

Balfour's opinion concerning the conference was expressed informally after he had been with the British delegation td the Executive Offices to pay the President a farewell call. His open willingness to comment on the effect of the conference and Its app' teat ions to world affairs Indicated that this topic had been touched upon during his half hour with President Harding. Charming was the word Mr. Balfour used to describe both the President and his talk with him. The greatest day of the conference." Mr.

Balfour said. was the opening i i. wAK estly stated her position on the dimunl-tion of armaments. It amounted to a new light in the world. Unquestionably.

the meeting In Washington has demonstrated tha efficacy of the conference methods for the settlement or international disputes, ana undoubtedly it will lead to many similar conferences, which will be a lasting; achievement, The most Important work of the present conference was regional and I use the word in thfe language of nations but the League Nations could not have done the thltisa this conference haa done. And I am a League of Nations man. you know. There are things that must be done apart from the Leane, and it wag with these things that the Washington conference dealt. There are some thing's, of course, that the League could do that Ceatlaaed ea Page Two.

LAST SESSION A BUSY Two Far Eastern Treaties and Many Resolutions' Are SPEECHMAK1NQ FOLLOWS Heads of All' the Delegations- Express Gratification Over the Results Obtained. A NEW ERA SAYS BALFOUR Portugal's Envoy Praises 'Our Leadership in Affairs of the World. By ix icialtoir JfXK- DAYia. Special td A'sw Tor risws, 1 WASHINGTON. Feb.

4V-Ths work -of the Conf erenee for the Limitation of Armament was ended except for thowlgnlns; of th treaties which it has produced. In aj tour-hoar plenary the sixth sine the conference met weeks ago The principal accomplishment of the session was the adoption of two treaties relating- to Chinese The first covers the pen Including the Root resolution, pledging' the powers to. give China a chance to get on her. feet and not to seek for themselves any vn- fair or special advaiftaea, hinds tha sign a tor las td respect CI jnese neutrality and empowers any of ins powers concerned. Including Chmai herself, to call a conference 7 of aJTtlJb MorUs ii case tasoa.

itfjics' opinlosi of alay one of-then 'Jn vol vas the application the stipulations of tha present treaty. 'T, Tbs secoadj treaty deaid with the nese 4nd provides for tha aasc Wing at Shanghai as. soon as possible cf commission. which shall the Chinese tariff so as. to make it squtva- lent to 5 pef cent, ad valorem.

-of about Sft percent. as at present. treaty also provides a special con -ference to taka-otepe toward the abolition of 'the Ukln or Internal customs in China and authorise the levying of a surtax, in most Instances 2 per on Chinese Imports as soon as It finds It advisablei A further revision Is to be made In; four years to adjust the specific 'duties fixed by- the revising commission jto the ad valorem rates, and thereafter revisions aro to take place 1 every" seven! years Instead of every tea as heretofore. -Senator Underwood, who presented this treaty to the conference, said that It knight be expected to double the rnaiitlm customs revenue Of China. The conference also adopted a resolution providlag for the establishment of a Board of Heferenoe In Peking to eon- aider questiens arising from tbs appU- cation of tha open door principles an proved a supplement to four-power-treaty, which removed the homeland of Japan from discussion by specifying Formosa, the Pescadores.) the Japanese half of Sakhalin, and the mandated islands as tha pan ass -Insular alona.

which guaranteed by treaty adopted resolutions on the Chi nese Eastern Railway; took note of the American, Japanese and French state ment on Siberia, the Chinese and American statement oat the twenty one demands! and a declaration by China that She would not alienate any. of her" territory: and finally heard a declaration by the flvs powers signatory to tho naval treaty! that they would regard It as a breach of honor to sell. any the warshlpa designated for scrapping between tho present. and tho data of atlficatlon of tho Somethlngl like two hours after- the conference landed. "Japan and signed the i agreement embodying, settlement of the Shantung On Mondayf after the signing cf the other treaties, the conference wCl end with an address by.

President Harding, Caaferaas Achievfsasate IssliaV The formal session of today's confer- ence compievea as raa wwa an iw hours. Then two hours more were given over to speeches by members o. the delegations, giving- tneir estimate of the importance ox wnax neon done. Mr. Balfour, first of the speakers, ds- dared, that the delegates had felt that they were consciously working In tho service of mankind." a He went on: Cast yor eyes back to only few months ago, when spirit of dem anxiety overshadowed tho mind of every man who contemplated tho state of public feeling ia tha great Pacific area.

-Already this feeling of mutual fear has given way to a teeing of very different character ajnd confidence has taken the place of mistrust, rev: Tho greatest step toward Ing- the rehitlons of tho powers In Chin has been taken by this We have tried to. lay tho fe -stios 4 honest dealings between tlTe ower3 in China and; with China, and a nation which deliberately separates Itself from the collective action wo have taken here, that! nation will not be able to -plead tg-noranes of Its oblLgationa." Discussing- the three arm mp hnnl i ef tha conference, naval the four-powerj treaty and tha Chinese asreemenU, he said that nons of them could bo considered without taking the others Into account. with tha diminution of arrnajnanta. he added, i thera roes a great almintt- Uon In the likelihood of their rer being '-mm I-.