Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-14
TR|PART|TE NAVY
PACT SEEN AS j. S.
AND JAPAN AGREE
Accord Reported Dependent
Only on Confirmation by
Home Officials.
FRANC0-ITALVAN CRISIS
GRAVITY Is INCREASED
BRAND Fails to Suggest Plan for
Compromise, Though Remain
ing in London.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
STAG Correspondent of The Star.

StaH Correspondent OF The star.
ny Radio 70 The Star.
LONDON, March 14.-The Naval
Conference still is afloat, after many
days and nights of tempestuous weather,
but that literally is the most that can
be said Of it at this hour.
A more encouraging situation exists
today regarding the possibilities Of q
three-power agreement. Japan Amer
tea and Great Britain now are so
close together that hardly anything
Uavoring of difference is left. This
means positively that they viii seal a
tripartite treaty at London, come what
may. Nothing but the formal assent of
authorities in Toxic is required to make
this possible and no anxiety is felt that
this viii be withheld.
japanese Agreement Outlined.
The agreement with Japan follows
the lines forshadowed in The Stars
dispatches at the beginning of this
month. While the japanese will be ac-
corded the right on the basis of exist
retain 80 per cent Of Americas 8-inch
cruisers between now and 1896, Japan
will lose definitely the right to have
more than so per cent after that date.
The United States viii build brand
new cruisers of the latest types, while
Japan already has her quota, of much
older construction. The ratio by 1896
viii be IS American to IL Japanese
10,000-ton cruisers. The United States
has rejected the Japanese proposal that
Japan should be entitled to lay down
couple of new cruisers In the meantime.
Japanese submarine parity has been
put on the basis Of $4,000 tons instead
Of the $4,000 she had been demanding.
Secretary Stimson's naval experts have
assured him that these mutual con-
SESSIONS do not in any way jeopardize a
single vital American defensive need.
In any event, all can be considered
anew i've years hence at the 1885
conference.
Admiralty Yet TO De won.
The "big navy controlled admiralty
ct Toxic yet has to be won over formal
ly to this arrangement. The civilian
branch Of the japanese delegation at
London is applying all Of the pressure
it can to that end. The club that Slim
son always held over Wakatsuki was
Americas readiness to build expensive
replacement battleshipS. The neces-
sity to match such construction was the
last thing IN the world with which
the Japanese wanted to start home.
The situation with respect to France
and Italy Is so much less satisfactory
that it can be described as extremely
grave. The conference Is deriving such
comfort as it can from Brands decision
to remain in London after the categori-
cal statement that he was preparing to
leave in despair.
IT have not taken my hand from the
AK" says the Old Fox Of the Quai
d'Orsay in the well known French
axiom. Nor doiI intend to do So" he
added smilingly.
However, NJ. BRAND signally failed
to suggest that he is ready to WELD
the ak in the general direction OF
compromise The French are awaiting
Tardieu's return from Paris tomorrow
night Tardieu returns to London
cloaked In the full support OF the
French Chamber of Deputies, where he
seems to command as safe a majority
as he had at the start Of the confer
ence.
Sunday should be the super-critical
day of the conferences wavering for
tunes As soon as Tardieu has had
chance to learn from BRAND the de-
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