The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
JAPAN READY
TO RENOUNCE
NAVAL TREATY
Nippon Will Act Formally
Today, Ending Two
Sea PaCtS.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Japan
today acted formally to reduce the
Washington and London Naval
Treaties to mere scraps of paper.
The japanese ambassador here,
Hirosi Saito was instructed by the
Toxic foreign Office to call upon
Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, at
noon to deliver Japan's official no.
tice that the Washington Treaty for
limitation of naval ornaments must
end on Dec. 81, 1886.
The London Naval Treaty, which
was corollary to the Washington
treaty, terminates automatically
with the ending of the Washington
pact.
He carried a note for presentation
to Mr.. Hull which would start the
Washington Treaty down the chute
leading to the waste basket. This
note said that Japan desired the
Washington Treaty to be termi-
mated at the expiration of the pc
Rod of two years notice provided
LII bilB bISdby.
BY doing so, Japan was deemed
to have returned all the political
questions and naval rivalry IN the
Pacific to the status they occupied
before the statesmen of five nations
labored for three months during the
winter of 1922 to bring the
Washington Treaties into being.
Two Other Treaties Involved
Two other treaties are bound up
in their fate with the Washington
Arms Limitation Treaty, in addi-
ton to several formal resolutions
bearing upon matters concerning
the treaties.
Officials in Washington Toxic
London have been reluctant to say
whether all the treaties signed at
Washington will fall by the wayside
along with the arms limitation
treaty. 1t was anticipated that a
formal statement bearing on this
question would be issued by Mr..
Hull Immediately after receipt of
the japanese note.
The Japanese government issu>,,
a formal statement for publication
simultaneously with delivery of the
note abrogating the ornaments
treaty. This was to be given to the
public simultaneously in all coun-
tries which were party to the Wash
ington Naval Treaty.
One of the treaties signed at
Washington is considered by many
American officials to have been
dead. for all practical purposes, for
the past three years. This is the
nine-power treaty guaranteeing the
political and territorial integrity of
China.
Violated in Manchuria
officials here contend privately
that Japan grossly violated that
treaty when she sent troops into
Manchuria in 1881 and wrested the
northern provinces of China from
the Nationalist government of Nam
king, later setting up a puppet gov
eminent under the nominal suze-
rainty of Emperor Henry Pu vi, but
actually under the dominance of
japanese bayonets.
This action was considered by
most observers to have had heavy
bearing on the failure of the three
party naval conversations in Lon
don to agree on continuance Of
naval armament limitation by
treaty. Japan, acting partially on
the premise that her enlarged re-
sponsibilities" and partly on the
premise that her own national dig
nifty required it, demanded a naval
equal in actual strength to the
navieS of the United States and
Great Britain.
The Washington treaty fixed the
relative naval strengths at 5-5-3
for the United States, Great Brit
ain and Japan, respectively. Britain
and the United States both con-
tended the ratio gave Japan equal
ity of protection"