COPYRIGHT, 1921 BY THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE PRESS OF BYRON S. ADAMS NOTE A Conference on the Limitation of Armament was called on August 11, 1921, by the Government of the United States, to meet in Washington on November 11, 1921, the third anniversary of the signing of the armistice between the victorious Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. The representatives of the Powers originally invited to the Conference were the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, for the consideration of the question of the limitation of armament, and China for the discussion of Pacific and Far Eastern Questions. Later, representatives of Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, were invited to take part in the discussion of questions concerning the Pacific. The tentative program agreed upon embraces the following subjects: Limitation of Armament 1. Limitation of naval armament, under which shall be discussed: (a) Basis of limitation. (b) Extent. (c) Fulfilment. 2. Rules for control of new agencies of warfare. 3. Limitation of land armament. Pacific and Far Eastern Questions 1. Questions relating to China. First: Principles to be applied. Subjects: (a) Territorial integrity. (b) Administrative integrity. (c) Open door-equality of commercial and industrial opportunity. (d) Concessions, monopolies or preferential economic privileges. (e) Development of railways, including plans relating to Chinese Eastern Railway. (f) Preferential railroad rates. (g) Status of existing commitments. 2. Siberia (similar headings). 3. Mandated islands (unless questions earlier settled). Electrical communications in the Pacific. Under the heading of "Status of Existing Commitments" it is expected that opportunity will be afforded to consider and to reach an understanding with respect to unsettled questions involving the nature and scope of commitments under which claims of rights may hereafter be asserted. 391314 In the belief that the dissemination of information regarding the status of armaments, the collection of official documents throwing light upon the situation in the Pacific, and the furnishing of accurate accounts of the issues involved in some of the more important problems confronting the Conference, would render a service to the public and perhaps even to the delegates to the Conference, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has undertaken the preparation and publication of a series of pamphlets of which the present pamphlet is one. The documents have been selected chiefly from John V. A. MacMurray's Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, published in two volumes by the Endowment earlier in the year. The meeting of so many nations in conference, following upon the close of a great war, is in itself an event of no mean importance. The holding of a conference upon the limitation of armament in succession to the First Hague Peace Conference called to consider the burden of armaments and the means for its decrease, with the possibility of an agreement in conference upon some of the questions of international import in addition to armaments, is an indication that the world is returning to "normalcy" and turning to the experience of The Hague. That the Conference may be successful in all the phases of its program should be the desire of men and women of good-will in all parts of the world. JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Director. WASHINGTON, D. C., November 4, 1921. www Documents mentioned in the list as not printed herein are included merely for reference. DATE August 1, 1894 May 10, 1895 October 18, 1895 November 8, 1895 1896 September 8, 1896 December 16, 1896 March 27, 1898 May 7, 1898 July 6, 1898 February 17, 1899 May 31, 1899 June 1, 1899 June 17, 1899 August 11, 1899 March 20, 1900 SPECIFICATIONS OF DOCUMENT JAPAN-Declaration of War against China. RUSSIA & CHINA-Cassini Convention... -Contract for Construction and Opera- RUSSIA & CHINA-Convention for Lease defining Boundaries of Leased and Neu- GREAT BRITAIN & RUSSIA-Exchange RUSSIA (Chinese Eastern Railway) & DATE January 30, 1901 February (?), 1901 July 18, 1901 August 2, 1901 April 8, 1902 September 22, 1902 August 12, 1903 February 10, 1904 December 22, 1905 June 7, 1906 August 1, 1906 December 5, 1906 April 15, 1907 May 27, 1907 May 30, 1907 June 13, 1907 June 26, 1907 CHINA-Agreement for Kirin-Chang- tion of Shanhaikwan-Hsinmintun-Ying- RUSSIA-Imperial Order creating Imperial in withdrawing Troops, and transferring JAPAN & CHINA-Treaty and Additional JAPAN-Imperial Order sanctioning the Or- JAPAN-Government Order concerning South Manchuria Railway Company, with JAPAN & CHINA-Agreement for Rendi- JAPAN & CHINA-Convention regarding JAPAN (South Manchuria Railway) & CHI- JAPAN & RUSSIA—Provisional Convention to |