Evening star., 1934-10-27
Admiral Yamamoto Denies
Plan to Walk Out on
London Farley.
AMBASSADOR ARRANGES
GOLF GAME WITH DAVIS
Refusal Of Japan to State Maxi
mum of Defensive Ships
Menaces Action.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. October 27. Admiral
ISoroku Yamamoto, japanese seadog
delegate to the three-power conversa-
tions, said today he will stay here a
year if necessary to get satisfactory
naval agreement.
That was the outspoken admiral's
reply to reports the japanese were
building up a situation which would
enable them to walk out on the Eng
lish and Americans.
Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira ar
ranged a golf engagement with Nor
man Davis TO discuss the situation
and iron out difficulties which have
arisen during the week.
Says Plan Peace Basis,
Admiral Yamamoto believes the
japanese proposals for a new naval
treaty constitute an och-making
plan for ending all aggression and
bringing about real peace.
He said acceptance Of the idea OF
aboishing offensive ships would make
aggression a thing of the past
Counseling patience, Yamamoto said
the agreement cannot be written in q
day and declared the empire is will
ing to accept any mutually satis-
factory compromise.
He said no spectacular breaking up
of the conversations would appeal to
him and he is prepared to camp in
London until England, the United
States and Japan produce an agree
ment
Lack of Figures Stressed.
1t was the refusal of the japanese
to flx the maximum figure to which
they would be willing to limit defensive
ships that gave rise to the report the
Japanese delegates were attempting to
wreck the conversations preliminary to
the 1885 Naval Conference. American
sources holding to this view expressed
the opinion Japan would walk out Of
ferlng the excuse the other powers
would not give her sufficient rights
under the new treaty.
Davis and Admiral William H
Standley, United States delegates, feel
the Japanese procedure in not making
the figures known has been unsatis-
factory.
Outlined Basic Principles.
At yesterdays meeting with the
British. headed by Prime Minister
Ramsay Macdonald, Matsudaira ano
Yamamoto asserted their country
was willing to compromise on any
technical basis provided basic prin-
ciples of her plan are recognized.
These principles are:
/. Acceptance Of the principle oi
equality in naval armaments of tht
defensive type.
2. Reduction or abolition Of capital
ships-aircraft carriers. battleshipk
and heavy cruisers-to make aggresE
sive warfare impossible.
3-Abandonment of the ratio
principle. 4
+Limitation of ships of war OH the
total tonnage basis instead of by cate.
gories.
MAnchurian Policy Cited.
An authoritative American source
has pointed to Japanese policies al
Shanghai and in Manchuria as proof
of the way Japan can act when she
believes her security menaced, adding
that Japan entered Manchuria anc
fought the Chinese at Shanghai or
the plea of self-defense
An excuse Of this sort could bt
offered for abandoning the converse.
tions here, he continued. The Amer
leans feel such action would greatly
please the Japanese public.
At the afternoon session yesterday
British experts explained the require
ments of their nation should it be
found impossible to negotiate a new
treaty. These requirements, explained
to the Americans last Summer, were
headed by a so to 10 per cent increase
in the tonnage of cruisers.
The British said they would need q
large additional number of vessels to
patrol coast lines of the empire should
! existing treaties be junked.