, 1922-02-01

ships to 16 inches and article z nxes
tho tonnage OF aircraft carriers. Aru'
Gle s provides for replacement OF air
craft carriers and article . sets forth
the manner in which additional air
craft carriers can bo ecured.
Article 10 limits aircraft carriers &c
s-inch calibre guns; It provides also
for a permissible total Of 10 guns II
the carried includes guns
exceeding six inches in calibre- II
the armament contains no guns ex
ceeding six Inches the number OF
guns is not limited.
Article IL provides no warship ex
ceeding 10000 tons displacement 9th
or than capital ship aircraft carrier
shall be built within Jurisdiction Of
contracting powers,
Article IL limits guns on any ex
cept capital ships to s-inch cniibre
Thirteen provides no vessel to b.
strapped shall be reconverted into
war vessel. Fourteen provides n
preparations shall be made in peac'
time to convert merchant ships int
wnr vessels.
Articles is. 10 and II provide NJ
war vessel shall be constructed dur
ing tho lifo of the pact and II this Il
done all details must be made avail
able to other signatories.
Eighteen prevents transferring o.
vessels OF war to any foreign power
while 10 provides England. America
and Japan agree to maintain status
quo with regard to Notifications anc
/ naval bases in territories and posses
sions. A subheading unde this arti
Gle names insular possessions held by
America in the Pacific except those
adjacent to the United States. Alaska
and tho canal zone not including the
Aleutian and Hawaiian islands.
Socond subhead names Hong Kong
and Pacific insular possessions now
held and hereafter acsuired by Great
Britain east OF ITO degrees last long
coasts OF Canada and It's territories
and New Zealand.
The third subheading names as Jap
anese insular territories and posses
sions in the Kurile. BONN and Loo.
choc islands, Amami-O shima, For
mosa, the Pescadores and any insular
territories or possessions in the Pacific
ocean which Japan may hereafter ac-
quire." Tho article explains hat the
status quo agreement implies that no
new Qualifications or bases shall be es'
tnblished or present defenses or naval
facilities DO increased in the territories
named, the restriction not precluding.
however, replacement Of worn out
weapons or equipment.
Article 20 provides for a uniform
rule of determining displacement ton
mage for all five powers.
Chapter two is headed:
Rules relating to the execution of
the MISREPRESENTATION OF terms"
Part one carries the specific lists OF
capital ships already quoted. but
makes tho tonnage ratio agreement eff
fective for the United states on the
competition OF the two West Virginia
class ships and the scrapping of the
North Dakota and Delaware; and for
Great Britain on completion of the two
new ships previously provided for and
the scrapping of the four ships they
will replace. Provision is made for
Franco to lay down new capital ship
tonnage in the years 1927. 1929 and
1881 as provided for in the replace
ment agreement and with a similar
provision for Italy.
Part two sets out four rules for
scrapping vessels OF war. Rule one
provides that such vessels must be so
treated that they cannot be put to
combatant use" Rule two provides
that this may be effected by sinking
the ships. breaking them up. convert
Ing them into targets in which case
lot more than n capital ship at a
time could be retained for target use.
A sub division would permit France
and Italy during 1891 or thereafter
each to retain two seagoing vessels
for gunnery and torpedo school work,
the French vessels 10 be OF the Jean
Bart class, and the italian to be the
Dante Alighieri and G. ship Of the
Guilio Cesaro class, the two govern.
rhents agreeing to destroy coming
towers OF these vessels and not to use
tho said ships as vessels OF ar"
Rule three of part two provides that
vessels due for scrapping must be
rendered Immediately incapable of
warlike service which shall be deemed
to have beer accomplished when there
shall have been removed or destroyed