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Meetings of these committees and their sub-committees, be- ginning with their first sessions, Nov. 14 and 1 5, were held in the Pan-American Building and were not open to the public. Lengthy

sions, of which six were held. The decisions reached were in regard to navies, including submarines; poison gases; the Pacific Ocean and its islands; and Chinese affairs.

communiques were published on the progress of the discussions, and their results were reported formally at the open plenary ses-

The committee on armament discussed fully the maximum tonnage and ratio of capital ships to which each Power should