TO URGE RATIFICATION OF TREATIES AT MEETING

Two of the special advisers at the Washington Conference, Professor G. G. Wilson of the University and Professor G. H. Blakeslee, A.M. '00, of Clark University, Worcester, will give an inside view of the work of the conference at the public meeting to be held on Monday evening, March 6, at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.

The meeting, which will be open to all members of the University and to the Cambridge public as well, is to be held to urge ratification by the Senate of the treaties signed at the conference, with- out reservations or serious delay. The Reverend S. M. Crothers '99, minister of the First Unitarian Church, will preside.

Professor Wilson, who is announced as one of the speakers, served as legal adviser at the Washington Conference. He is widely known as an authority on international law, and holds a professorship at the U. S. Naval College as well as at the University. He has had wide experience in international negotiations, holding the position of American delegate to the International Naval Conference in 1908-09. He was counselor to the American Legation at the Hague in 1914, and later served as legal adviser to the American mission for return of the Dutch ships in 1919.

Professor Biakeslee of Clark University, the other speaker, served as technical adviser on Pacific and Far Eastern questions at the conference, and is qualified by this fact and by his broad knowledge of conditions in Japan and China to tell about the treaties involving the Far East which were signed at Washington and now are before the Senate for ratification. He has written much on the problems of China and Japan