Brussels, Nov. 22.
The United States' delegation to the Nine-Power Conference has been ordered to wind up its work to-day im time to take the s. President Harding sailing from Havre for New York on Wednesday, it was reliably reported to-day.
The United States yesterday rejected the British proposal that these two Powers make a joint effort to halt the conflict in the Orient.
This suggestion was one of several which the British and American delegations considered submitting to the Nine-Power Conference when it recenycnes to-day.
The British proposal was that the Conference might authorize the two Fowers to offer their good offices to China and Japan for the purpose of arranging an armistice. This was rejected, by Mr. Norman Davis, because it would be an invitation for another rebuff by Japan.
The British and American delegations then tentatively decided to propose that the Conference suspend future meetings rather than close formally, The understanding would be that the Conference would reconvene upon the request of any two of the participants.—Unitéd Press.
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