The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-12-14
HARDING ASKED
TO CALL NATIONS
Resolution Asks President
to Call New Conference
on Disarmament.
STOP NEW BUILDING
Great Britain, France, Italy,
Japan to Be Asked to
Attend Conference.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.

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Washington, D. C. - A request that
President Harding seek to broaden
the scope of the naval limitation
agreement so as to include limita-
tion on construction of smaller types
Of war vessels and on military and
naval air craft, is included in the an
nual naval bill as reported today by
the House appropriations committee.
Under the bill as brought into the
House, the President would be asked
to open negotiations with Great Bril-
tain, France, italy and Japan for an
agreement which would limit future
building of all surface and submersible
types Of war craft having tonnage
of 10000 or less and on all classes of
army and navy air crafts.
In its report the committee pointed
out that the arms conference did not
limit the number or types of smaller
war vessels and added that informa-
ton had reached Congress shat al
ready large programs are planned of
vessels up to the maximum size per-
mitted under the agreement and that
new and larger types of sub-s1rface
craft have begun TO put in an appear
ance."
''In other words" the report con-
tinued, competition is ON again in the
single direction to which the unratis
fed agreement does not extend, and
if it be allowed to go on unchecked
the purse strings again must be relax
ed and this government, like all 9TH
ers, will be constrained to launch upon
a new program to the extent necessary
to keep us at least abreast of any
of the other powers"
Would Complete Work.
The committee prefaced it's recon-
mendations by review of the accom-
plishments of the Washington confer
of expenditure already had been re-
moved by the stopping of work on the
larger types of warships and that much
good had resulted from the limitations
placed upon gun calibres and other
buildings.
''The splendid achievements of that
the report continued,
need not be recited here. Although
the agreement entered into has not
been ratified by all the participating
governments, America is looking for
ward to that end.
'The conference did not, however,
limit the number or types Of vessels
coming up to or, under the ten thou
sand ton and eight gun limits, either
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craft, nor did it impose any limita-
ton whatever on aircraft"
Presidents Attitude Unknown.
No information was available as to
the attitude of the President and his
advisers toward the proposal which
was prepared by Representative Kel-
ley, Republican, Michigan, head of the
subcommittee that prepared the bill.
1t was pointed out, however, that an
attempt to limit smaller war craft
would carry forward an unsuccessful
effort made by the American delega-
ton in the Washington conference.
The original American proposal at
the conference contained a provision
which would have limited new cruis-
ers other than battle cruisers, fotilla
leaders and destroyers and all other
auxiliary surface combat craft to 5000
tons displacement, Is knots speed and
an armament of not more than four
fve-inch guns.
So far as the United States is con-
cerned, the existing ships and those
under construction include only a very
limited number of cruisers of the light
type used during the war, to protect
commerce and to screen battleship
formations. The British navy has q
tremendous proponderance in this re-
spect, and Japan is building a large
number Of cruisers, having recently
modified the program to increase the
size of a number of these ships up to
the 10000 ton treaty limit.
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