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than capital ship or aircraft car
| rier, of every sort built hereafter.
There were three exceptions to the
application with respect to tonnage
displacement and armament. and those
three exceptions were capital ships,
| isting. These were the three excep-
tons. This did not apply to any
ship existing, but it did apply to
| every ship of war hereafter built
| which did not come within the cate
cory of capital ship or aircraft car
rier. 1t was important that that be
understood before it was acted upon.
Sugsests This Change.
II he had interrupted the amended
resolution correctly, he was inclined
to view that it's meaning would be
clearer II there were some change in
the arrangement of the words, and he
suggested the following:
mo ship Of war hereafter built,
other than capital ship or aircraft
carrier, shall exceed a total tonnage
, displacement of 10000 tons. and no
gun shall be carried by any ship of
, war. hereafter, other than a capital
ship. with caliber in excess of eight
inches"
The chairman then asked whether
the committee should proceed to
discussion Of this question.
Admiral Acton accepted for the
, read by the chairman.
The chairman then said that the
! situation was that all the powers
present had accepted the resolution
with the exception of the French
delegation. which had not as yet re-
ceived definite instructions upon the
point. The matter would. therefore.
be delayed until he was notified that
. such instructions had been received.
The meeting was then adjourned
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Tho Eleventh Meeting.
The eleventh joint meeting of the
committee on the limitation of arma-
ment and the subcommittee on naval
limitation was held this afternoon.
December 80. 1921. at 3 O'Clock. in the
PAN american building.
The chairman (Mr Hughes) said that
he assumed that the next subject TO
be brought before the committee for
discussion was the proposal with re-
gard to the total tonnage of airplane
, carriers which each of the powers
should have as maximum under the
proposed agreement. This was item
% of the proposal circulated at the
opening of the conference on behalf OF
the American government. 1t was
proposed that the total tonnage of air.
plane carriers allowed each power
should be as follows: United States,
$4,000 tons: Great Britain, $4,000 tons;
Japan. $4,000 tons.
provided, however. That no power
party to this agreement whose total
tonnage in airplane carriers on NO
vember H. 1921 exceeds the preScrlb-
ed tonnage shall be required to scrap
such excess tonnage until replace
ments begin. at which time the total
tonnage of airplane carriers for each
! nation shall be reduced to the pre-
scribed allowance as herein stated.
"24. ta) All airplane carriers whose
keels have been laid down by NoVem-
Der II. 1921. may be carried to COM
pletion.
"tb) No new airplane carrier tom
mage, except replacement tonnage, as
provided herein, shall be laid down
during the period of this agreement:
Provided. however, That such nations
as have not reached the airplane car
rier tonnage hereinbefore stated may
construct tonnage UP to the limit of
their allowance.
80. Airplane carriers snail be
scrapped in accordance with methods
| to be agreed upon
New Proposal Made.
And there was supplement to those
proposals the additional proposal as
follows:
NO airplane carrier shall be laid
down during the term of this agree
ment whose tonnage displacement is
| in excess of 2T,000 tons, and no gun
shall be carried by any such ship
other than capital ship with a cali
Der in excess of inches.
The chairman said that he ought
| to add that the allowance to the
United States. Great Britain and ia
| pan. as stated in item % OF the pro-
posal. was based on the ratio which
had been proposed with respect TO
| capital ships of 5-o-3, ana. II the
same ratios were provided with re-
spect to France and Italy as would
! be furnished by the relation of the
| capital ship tonnage agreed upon. OF
| course the figures would correspond
accordingly.
There were A number of points
! embraced in the proposition. He sup
| posed that ii would he an advantage
| that the committee should not scat
| ter the discussion by talking to diff
ferent points at the same time; and.
| if it was quite agreeable to the dele
gates. he would suggest that the COM
mittee begin with the discussion OF
! the maximum Limitation of total tom
mage. lie, the maximum allowed for
the total tonnage of airplane car
riers-not the maximum for indi
vidual carriers. but the total tonnage
| allowed for airplane carriers as stat
| ed in this overwhelmingly. United
States, 10000 tons: Great Britain, S0.-
| 600 tons; Japan, $4,000 tons. and SO
on in proportion to the capital ship
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Italy Asks Amendment.
Admiral Acton then read the fol-
| lowing statement:
With respect to aircraft carriers
! the American proposals assign to Italy
$4,000 tons. corresponding to the cap
| ital ship tonnage of 10000 tons al
ready determined upon. This would
permit the construction of only one
! aircraft carrier of the maximum of
fn, liS 81,
| of vessel. 1t must, however. be taken
| into consideration that if a single ves-
sci of this character were obliged to
go into drydock or were to be sunk
at sea Italy would find herself under
these circumstances temporarily or
definitely without any aircraft carrier
whatsoever. We believe 1t therefore
| to be Indispensable that we should be
equipped with total tonnage of air
craft carrier superior to tlat which
has been assigned to us. To be pre-
else, we ask as our minimum a ton
rage corresponding to figure double
that of the maximum tonnage as
signed to us for vessels of this class.
i i.e., $4,000 tons. 1t is moreover, un-
derstood that if a tonnage superior
| to $4,000 tons is assigned to any other
, Mediterranean power we demand
parity of treatment in this respect
| i.e., we demand the allowance of an
| equal amount of tonnage"
The chairman said merely as mat
ter of Qualification he would like to
ask whether, when Admiral Acton
| spoke of ANY other power in the
Mediterranean" he included Great
tfritain.
i Gains British Sympathy.
Lord Lee said he had listened with at
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