The Newark journal., 1922-01-12
Arms Conference Receives the Completed Program for
 Naval Reduction.
"SUB" TONNAGE NOT LIMITED
chta Delegates Reveal Alleged Fran co-Jspanese Secret AlIiance-Allied Supreme Council at Cannes-Bit- ter Debate Over Irish Treaty
 in Dali Eireann.
By EDWARD w. PACKARD

WITH it's work almost completed
 W so far as it can be, the arma- ment conference at Washington met in plenary session at the close of the week and heard a report of the pro- gram for naval reduction and limita- tion as completed by the naval com mittee and its corps of experts. The treaty for a teE-year naval holiday to be entered into by the five principal powers of the world was presented, together with the technical details for carrying it ont.
 AS finally decided upon, the agree ment is not so drastic in it's plan for reductions as was proposed by the American delegation, but the fact re- mains that 1t puts an end, for a dee ade, to the navy building race that threatened to swamp the taxpayers of several nations, and it Is admittedly a great step toward world peace. Notifications of the original plan re- suited in slight increases in the ton mage limits, and it Is asserted these changes really strengthen relatively the American navy.
 For the United States, Great Britain Japan, France and Italy, the capital ship ratio is 5-5-3-1 .67-1 .67. The tonnage allowed America and Britain is raised from 50000o to 25,0o0 each, and that of the others is proportionately in- creased. France Is permitted to build a limited number of capital ships dur ing the ten-year period, and Great Britain may construct two 37,000-ton vessels of the Hood type. France won out in her contentious concerning submarines and auxiliary craft. No limit Is placed on the aggregate ton mage of these vessels, but their max mum size and gun caliber Is fixed. A limit of 10000 tons each is put on aux Hilary ships and light cruisers, and their guns are not to exceed eight inches. The ratio for airplane car riers Is to be 5-5-3-2 22-222 and the maximum tonnage for the two largest powers 135,0o0. These vessels are limited to a tonnage of 27 900 each, and their gun caliber is restricted.
 American naval officers, 1t is as- serted, rejoiced over Japan's success ful demand that she be allowed to re- tain the dreadnaught Mutsu and Frances persistence regarding subma- rines and auxiliary ships. In both cases the necessary adjustments re- founded to the relative strengthening of Ameriea's navy. It retains two al- most completed dreadnaughts, and it will have almost as great a tonnage in submarines as it first proposed in stead of only 60,00O tons. the point to which the American delegates were about to recede when Great Britain asked the abolishing of the U-boat The British announced that if France had great submarine fleet. they must be permitted to build as many auxiliary cruisers as they wished and 1t is now agreed America will equal the British fleet in every respect.
 At this writing there appears to be little doubt of the approval by the conference of the Root resolutions de- claring the employment of submarines against commerce as piracy, and Mir. Balfour's amendment under which the banning of submarine operations against merchantmen shall become i'm mediately effective as among the five major powers.
 | APAN and China, through their J delegates, resumed the interrupted conversations" over the Shantung is- sue, but so far as Is now known they did not make notable progress toward an agreement. The arrangements for payment by China for the Kiaochow-