New-York tribune., 1921-11-25
Hughes Plan
Generous for
Other Powers
satisfies on Limitation of
Navies Show AZ, Extra
ordinary Allowance for
Iapari in Scale of Nations
Comparison of Fleets
.53'' Ratio Held To Be
the Limit of Concession
: Acceptable 10 America

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a (Ry The AS
.,.;ssed Press ).-Statistical reviews OF
- meaning Of Secretary Hughes
.ronosal for limitation of naval arma-
~.nts and immediate heavy reductions
!. srht;ne fleets give a graphic picture
/ ssst seems TO bear out from every
s.;nt Of view the generosity of the offer
r. limited States has made to the
..ser naval powers. This applies both
= The proposed "5~5-3" ratio and te
"a retained tonnage phases of the
/ srer;can naval plan. The comparative
s~,rss also show clearly an extraor-
.;sarv allowance fer Japan in the
. ssle Of nations.
"a treat the tonnage figures of the
4 issrican plan from a new angle, the
! ss.s-s" ratio represents distributor
! csuital shig tonnage on the basis
! Iapan keeping fleet representing
4 uer cent. ef The total of the three
sswsrs. the other two dividing the re-
4 rainder. During the ten-year period,
/ kaweyer. Great Britain would have in
/ H. neirhborhood of 43 per cent; the
rnited States would have something
rore than 50 per cent, and Japan over
r uer cent. % the total. The change
& the end Of the ten-year holiday rep
,,sentsl equalization of the American
I md British fleets to which Great
Britain already has agreed
Auxiliary Tonnage Compared
Under the .'5-5-S" ratio and the pro-
/ scsed limitation Of auxiliary tonnage
Is veil SIS capital craft, through appli
cstion Of the replacement rule of max
srum, the British and American fleets
I rsuld reach total of 1,12a,000 tons in
Ill combat craft and Japan $4,000
his makss possible q comparison of
4 tie relation OF the fleets to various
ssrtors representative of the place OF
1 esch power among the nations.
Against the simple question of geo
rsphical area of each, for instance
he limited fleets would mean for
Japan more than $500 tons of naval
strength a thousand square miles.
| The san1e figure for the United States
would be approximately SEQ tons, and
| for the British empire between eighty
md ninety tons
Even more striking in disproportion
4tTorable to Japan is the comparison
an the basis of accepted estimates OF
national wealth. Japan would have
ypmsthing like 260O0 or 27,00o feet
tons billion dollars in national
wealth, while the American figures
would be little more than 5000 tons
s billion and the British 5000 tons q
ghillion.
/ Limit of Concession TO Japan
Dispruportion again holds true as to
Stpreign commerce of each power
Japan would have almost 200 tons OF
3naval tonnage per million dollars in
4her import and export business over a
aperiod of years. The United States
would have little more than eighty tons
aper million aHd the British between
atOrty and fifty tons.
l Again, in relationship Of naval to
anmmercial tonnage of each power-anC
3navles are built TO some extent to sup
port the commercial strength afioat OF
Sthelr hags-japan would have nearly
allo tons of lighting ships per Thousand
ions or japanese commercial craft The
Aenited States would have little more
Hnan sixty tons under such tabulatior
4md Great Britain less than fifty tons
4 Admittedly these figures are Of z
most broad and general character, bu,
3aey do bring into sharpest relief the
4 nct that Secretary Hughes's proposal.
we're IN fact based substantially on the
Frssent naval status of each pewe,
and did not put forward logical claim:
1 2 national interest and place in the