Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-25

Washington, Nov. 24.-Statistic re-
views of the meaning of Secretary
Hughes proposals for limitation Of
1aava ornaments and immediate
heavy reductions in fighting fleets,
gave a graphic picture that seems to
bear GU from every point OF view the
generosity of the offer the United
States a made to the other naval
powers. This applies both to the pro-
posed 5-5-S ratio and to the retained
onnaSe phases of the American Plan.
The comparative figures ais show
clearly anIeXtraordinary allowance for
Japan in the scale for nations.
To treat the tonnage figures of the
American plan from & new angle, the
"5-5-.3' ratio represents a distribution
of capital ship tonnage OF the basis
of Japan keeping a lleet representing
% per cent of the total of the other
powers the other two dividing the re-
inainder. During the ten year period,
however, Great Britain would have
in the neighborhood OF 43 per cent;
the United States would have some
thing more than So PEI cent and ia
a over 81 per cen of, he total. The
change at the end of the ten year
holiday represents equalization of the
American and British fleets 70 which
'1SdI DI1I0ill I1Ao III SduS Ncu.
Under the 1913 ration and the pro-
posed limitation of auxiliary tonnage
as we'll as capital ship craft through
application of the replacement rule
of maximu. the British and American
fleets Would read a total Of 100000
tons in all combat craft and Japan
$4,000. This makes possible a COM
Darison of the relations Of the fleets
roNvarious representative Of the place
of each power among the nations.
$500 Tons Per Square Mile
Against this simple question of
geographical area Of each, for in
for Japan more than $500 tons Of
naval strength per thousand square
miles The same figure for the United
States would be approximately 800
ions and for the British empire be-
tween so and 90 tons.
Ever more striking in d~ispropor-
ton favorable to Japan is the compari-
mates of national wealth. Japan
would have something like $4,000 OF
$1,000 fleet tons per billion dollars in
national wealth. while the American
figure would be little more than 5000
tons per billion and the British 5000
tons per billion.
D~isproportion again holds r u as
TO foreign commerce OIL cen power.
Japan would have almost 200 tons OF
naval tonnage per million dollars in
her import and export business over
a period of years. The United States
would have little more thar 80 tons
per million n the British between
40 and SO tons.
L. S. Japan Ratio
Again in relationship of naval to
commercial tonnage Of each power
and navies are built to some extent tc
upport the commercial strength afloat
of theri flags, Japan would have near
y 10 tons of fighting ships. The
United States would have little more
than so tons under such t%abulation
and Great Britain less than so tons
Admittedly these figures are of q
most broad and general character
aUf they do bring into sharpest relief
!. +>"~ .i'"- Secretary Hughes pro-
posals we're in fact based substantially
rr"rn $40 pr~s"nt lava status of each
power and did not put forward logica
.r.ere>t and a place
ord which might have been
;ttkaul.ed TO support a much higher
naval ratio as compared to Japan
iiian was actually proposed.