New Britain herald., 1930-01-13

 warfare, remains auxiliary to tho | two ior arms.
 It IS an adjunct to land and sea . power, for it still is restricted in it's 1 sphere Of indep.sndent action. A | military menace whose potentialtes are staggering in combination with l operations on land, air power seems : destined however, tp be world wide in its ultimate scope.
 3-sea power by its very nature is limited to a few contenders for world pre-cminencc.
 The command of the seas, given the existing political and economic development Of nations, is involved inescapa ply with national greatness. No world power-that is, one of the half-dozen nations in the van, thoroughly industralized and depen- dent upon internationG commerce for raw materials and markets es- Sontial to eXistenCe--chn fail to be affected by naval strength in every quarter of the globe. Battle fleets are capable of transfer, given naval bases and allies, from one theatcr of operations to another twhere the command of the sea is at stake. Attempts 10 Solve
 the Arms Problem
 The peace treaties Of 1919 rest on the proposition that the drastic lmi- ! tations imposed on t,e defeated l Central Powers. from Germany to Bulgaria, are to be preliminary to q general worldwide r,kduction of forces by all nations.
 The League of NaticHs, in con-. sequence, has bent its Q. ,orts in the direction Of general. Eomprehen- | slve plan for disarmane bt. Geneya's l earlier activity emphasiz Id the more l technical problems. Tn ese covered such diverse questions aS the traffic 1 in arms, the private manufacture Of armaments. and chemicslE warfare i The league. making n Jy start in 1925 after the rejection of the ia | nous Geneva protocol as too far | reaching, turned to the possibilities i Of worldwide armament limitation | Since then, the preparatory com- mission has been engage ] in laying l ! Both the United States ;lIyd Russia have cooperated with the$league in this direction. i The problem of naval strength, 1 however, has remained somewhat l outside Geneva's main efforts to | bring about the universa limitation l of ornaments. The issue of sea pow CT not only has concerned but few nations. More fundamental, the Washington conference for lmita- ] ton of naval armamentA of 192i-22 advanced this aspect of! the arma- ments question far beyond the gen. | oral progress in ot her related ! spheres.
 First fleet "ratios' we're establish cd for the five naval IOwers of to- day. That is, the strength of the bat ] tln fleets was limited in the propor- ton Of 5-5 $, G For the United States. Britain, Japan, France and , Italy. Second. capital ships ceased. under the limitation agreement, to constitute an issue. Third, the re- striction Of ohher craft 10 a maxi mum displaccm ent of 10000 tons armed with guns not to rXceed eight inches in caliba, definitely forecast ! th" present struggle ovcu what were
 formerly solely auNjlarits. Fourth. thla meant the ultimate appearance of tho Anglo-Alncrican naval con trovtfzsy-thc clash of 'nc two real rivals in the postwar world for sea poWcr--as a question Of cruiser
 strength.
 PrcseIN Day
 Naval Strength
 Now sea bowen from Athens to
 Britain and Japant is the product of
 two ebments-g geographic position
 and national development.
 ThcIrforc, naval armaments not
 only are limited intvitably by cnvi-
 ronment to a smalls sr group of fcoun-
 tries than are land forces. Effective | fleets, due 10 the costly technical acharacier Of such weapons, can be maintained by rcla lively few coun- ..rries. Personnel. all in all. plays d
 larger role on se:. than land-it is t,lr. d. literally. in the bone.
 The map of sna-poN,r shows naval
 strength distributed among three
 Grourt -Euro.a American and . Asiatk
 Th, largest nImber Of major pow { CTS bdrder the Atlantic Two out Of
 the sil. contenCbrs for maritime po-
 slion prior 10 1914. Germany and
 Austria Hungary, have disappeared
 10 all intents, from the map in the | naval sense. Two others. France and i Italy, arc primarily Mediterranean
 rivals. Britain remains the dominan1
 naval power with q quarter of the
 worlds naval strength. just as Franc" occupies thr premier place il
 fhe rotcr of land forces.
 . Arros5 the Atlantic, AmorjcS ."Waijr is unrhallpnSod in her nava .ruHr," m the nov. W orld. One ruar. of in. ,rlds sea poWcr i ., rDd r '9 TWtcd Statc1 flag Th' ' "A T. C" nations. tho Latin -Amcri '10 rNaN. have hut twentieth O = 'h, total tonnage: it is now rapidly . becoming ohgOlcsccn1.
 In the Jar East. Japan is in z
 position or, ,dominann similar 10 tha