The New York herald., 1921-11-30
COMPROMISE BAR
Either Hughes Plan
Must Be Accepted or
Entirely New For
mula Drawn.
THEN MORE BIG SHIPS
Belief Is Expressed That
Toxic VIII Play Trump
Card Later.
HER FAR EAST SOLUTION
Expected to Insist on FOothold
in Manchuria and Eastern
Inner Mongolia.
HER FAR EAST SOLUTION
by LOUIS sEIBOLD.

Special Despatch TO THE NEW YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. g., Nov. 20.
American and British delegates are
confident that the professional objec.
tions raised by Japanese naval au.
thorities, which are encouraging the
pessimists tonight, will not greatly
delay an agreement over the limita.
tion of capital ship ornaments.
With full appreciation of the mo.
tives that inspire the Japanese naval
authorities to demand a 10-10-7 ratio
of capital armaments instead of the
5-5-3, as proposed in the Hughes
formula, the delegates from the ma
jority of the nations represented at
the conference believe the decision of
Japan will take the form of an &C.
ceptance of the Hughes ratio.
The wholly friendly rivalry regard
ing major armaments progressed to-
day from the technical to the diplo-
matte stage, and the experts have
turned their attention to the sub
ject of submarines and auxiliary
craft. AS soon as the Japanese Gov.
ernment has given its decision re-
garding the work already completed
by the naval experts the capital ship
feature of the armament programme
will be ready for submission to the
full conference. A plenary session
may be held at the end of the present
week or the beginning % ne1t
Capital shis Issue
The capital ship issue actually
turns to the acceptance of the Amer.
ican plan or the discarding of 1t and
the adoption of an entirely new
formula, which both Great Britain
and ths United States would oppose.
The fate OF the superdreadnought
Mutsu, which exceeds by 1000 the
tonnage Of any other ship afloat, is
directly involved in the issue.
hC JdPdhtcC bONCl ullltul, lOI Icd'
sons of national pride, is ambitious
to save the Mutsu from the scrap
heap, but there is very good reason
to believe Toxic will finally acquiesce
in the view of the United States and
Great Britain that to permit the
ships retention would be to encour.
age rivalry on the part OF other
Powers great and small.
! The American delegates feel that
an attack on the relativity project in
the American proposal for the limita
tion OF naval ornaments would de.
stroy the proposal itself, and there
Is no intention OF accepting any
change OF ratio or OF compromising.
The position of the American dele.
gates is as follows:
II the conference gets to talking
about national needs a good deal
might be said. Great Britain has
worldwide possessions and the United
States has two long coast lines and
a divided fleet. Therefore II ma
tional need is to be considered the
10-10-7 proposal suggested by a rep
resentative of the Japanese Govern
ment to the press is very extrava-
CANT one and the 5-5-3 ratio provided
for In the American proposal much
more accurate in meeting the ma
tional need.
Far More Fundamental.
The proposal made by the United
States Is far more fundamental than
the conception of the Japanese naval
experts suggest: the American pro-
posal says in reality: stop where
we are. Get away from that and the
proposal is destroyed"
Convincing evidence that the pro-
tests of the professional Japanese
naval element are not influencing the
decision of the delegates from that
country was furnished tonight by
Prince Tokugawa, the head OF the
Japanese delegation, who disclaimcd
icrponsibillty for the statement OF
Vice Admiral Kato (who IS not a dele
gate) that the Japanese Government
would demand larger ratio OF ton
mage than is accorded under tho
hughes plan.
Prince TokuSawa denied that no
and his associates were awaiting in
structions from Toxic, but said they
had full authority to act and would
do so at the proper time, While ad .