Arizona republican., 1921-11-14
REIMBURSEMENT BY US. |0F. ANY BATTLE CRUISER ELEMENT REMOVES FEAR |0F WAR ACROSS PACIFIC
ACTUAL BUSINESS OF ARMAMENT. CONFERENCE GETS UNDER WAY TODAY WHEN HEADS OF DELEGA- TONS DISCUSS PROCEDURE
agreement on that question has bee1 taken, naval folk believe.

agreement on that question has bee1
 taken. naval folk believe.
 The actual business of negotiation
 will get under way tomorrow, when
 heads of delegations will meet to discuss procedure a subject likely to develop into one Of the most i'm portant of the conference. From every interested power have come ex- pressions emphasizing that the order in which the topics appear on the program would have significant bearing on the ability of the confer ence to move quickly toward practt- cal results.
 Advisory Committee Meeting | To agree on preliminary details.
 two meetings will be held. In the
 morning the committee on program and procedure for limitation of ar- | mament, Of which the heads of the American, British, French. Italian and Japanese delegations are mem- bers. will consider the armament end of the program, and in the afternoon the committee on program and pro- cedure for Far Eastern questions. consisting Of the heads of the dele gations of all nine nations holding seats in the conference. will assemble During the afternoon the American 1 advisory committee will meet and l Chairman Sutherland will announce | the personnel of the six subcomrnit- l tees.
 l Technical advisors tomorrow will | further consider the American pro- | posal under which tonnage figures in capital ships for the three powers l for immediate reductions would be:
 Great Britain. 604.450: United l States. 500.650. Japan. 299.7e0. | I4-k @t~f c.. T. | shows that the British preponderance | over the United States is practically | all in her four battle cruisers. In l that way, apparently, the American l group worked out MT. Hughes gen. eral statement as to the necessity of | having regard ''to the existing naval | strength of the powers concerned" So far as battleship tonnage goes, | in the retained fleets. American and
 British forces would be about the 1 same, around 500.000; and that of Japan just under 300,00o. This links 1 directly with Mir. Hughes suggestion | as to a replacement program, based on fixed tonnage for each power. to apply only after 10 years of no build- | ing, then under the American pro- posal Great Britain would be allowed
 to maintain up to 500.o00 tons in cap l ital ships. the United States the | | words. after 10 years the British fleet | must be brought down to the same | tonnage as the American, while the Japanese would remain substantially | where it was at the time of the first reduction.
 Apparently, 1t Is expected that the | British strength would be reduced | sufficiently by the wearing out of | ships during the 10 years
 Comparing Gun Power Statistics as to the gun power of l the three fleets to be retained show | that the United States and Japan would have one ship each mounting | eight 16-inch rifles each.
 | Great Britain would have 10 ships carrying 80 15-inch rifles; one car | rying 10 14-inch guns and her other 1 seven ships would be armed with 70 | British 13.5 guns. The United States. in addition to | the 16-inch gun ship. the Maryland, | just commissioned, would have eight | ships carrying F 14-inch guns each, | four carving 10 14-inch each, two ! carving 12 12-inch each and four carrying 10 12-inch each. Japan, in addition to her one 16-inch gun ship, would have 4S 14-inch guns and r. 12-fnch on on her battleships and g. | 14-inch on her battle cruisers. 1 The figures illustrate that the Brit | ish preponderance in the proposed | immediate cut is embraced in her ! four battle cruisers as the gun power of the two battleships would be diff | ferent in makeup, but all approxf- | mately the same There is little ! doubt. however, that American naval