Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1921, Page 7

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1921. i fF & SUGGESTIONS IN CONCRETE FORM “PLACED BEFORE ABMS MEETING Great Britain and 300,000 tons for Japan. A i rf il le H | EE of The Untted States is now complet- would include the ing its program of 1916 calling for|@l ships up to but not incl: 10 new battleships and six battle cruis-| Settsu; that is, the scrapping ers. One battleship has been com-|Sld ships, with a total tonnage pleted. The others are in various | 169,828 tons. stages of m; in some cases TOTAL SHIPS: from 60 to 80 ger cent of the con- WOULD BE. DESTROYED, struction has been done. Of these 15| ne total reductio . capital ships now being built over mala be $330,000,000 has been spent. till the he re aries down or ion United States is willing in the inter-| Which material has been assemb! est“of an immediate limitation of na-|*#*ing the tonnage of the ships val*armaments to scrap al? these|When completed. would be 448,928 ships. tons. U. 8. WOULD SCRAP . FIFTEEN WARSHIPS. vy of The United States proposes if this plan is accepted: 1+To scrap dil capital ships now under construction. This includes six battle cruisers and seven battleships on the ways and in the course of building, and two battleships launched. The total number of new capital ships thus to be scrapped {s 15, The total tonnage of the new capital ships when completed would b. 618,000 tons. 2—To scrap all of the older battle- ships up to, but not including the Delaware and North Dakota. The number of these old battleships to be scrapped ts 15. Their total tonness is 227,740 tons. Thus; the number of capital ships to be scrapped by the United States {f this plan is accepted, is 30, with an eral, regard should| 4ssregate tonnage (including that of Ra 9 pak existing naval strength {atlips tn construction, ic coctelered) or bt canternen? | 845,740 tons. t—Thet the capital’ whip tonnage| BRITISH AND Jars should be used as the measurements) WOULD FOLLOW SUIT. be for navies and a propor-| GREAT BRITAIN: The plan con- $ Leaks ph aeag Nes of auxiliary com-| templates that Great Britain and Ja- batant craft prescribed. pan shall take action which is fairly For the United States the program| Commensurate with this action on the all capital ships under|Part of the United States. woud ption: 48 tn number, and 15 of| It 1s proposed that Great Britain beige pation! 1—Shall stop further construction cane 1 rine gone stop construc-|°f the four new Hoods, the new cap!- tion on her four ships of the Hood) tal ships not lai¢ down, but upon oo ane all her second and first} Which money has been spent. The bles vs do up to the King George|four shins, if completed, would have > bet a tonnage displacement of 172,000 CEMENT PLANS tons. REPLA( 2—Shall, in addition, scrap her pre- ARE PROVIDED. dreadnaughts, second line battleships, A proviso would be included per-jand first line battleships up tg but mitting replacement of capital ships/not including the King George V. when they were 20 years old class. and prohibiting construction of any| ‘These with certain predreadnaughts ship built in replacement with a ton-|which it is understood have already nage of more than 35,000 ton: The|been scrapped, would amount to 19 text of the proposals as its details) capital ships and a tonnage reduction concern the three leading naval pow-| of 411,375 tons. ers, is as follows: ‘Thi Japen would abandon {ans for two total tonnage of ships thus to be scrapped by Greet Britain (includ- battleships and four battle cruisers not yet laid duwn and in addition navies of the three powers, 66 capital fighting ships, bull. and building, but @ total tonnage of 1,878,043. Tt is proposed that it should be agreed by the United States, Great Britain and Japan that their navies ‘With respect to capital ships, within three months after the making of the agreement shall consist of cer- tain ships designated in the proposal and number for the United States 18: for Great Briteim 22; for Japan 16. The tonnage of these ships would be as follows. Of the United States 500,650; of Great Britain 604,450; of Japan 299,- 700. In reaching this result, the age factor in the case of the respective navies has reached appropriate con sideration, Replacement—With respect to re- placement, the United States pro. poses; ()—That it be agreed that the first replacement tonnage shall not be Isid down until 10 years from the date of the agreement. @)—That replacements be by an agreed maximum: of ship tonnage as follows, For the United States 500,000 tong: for Great Britain 50¢,000 tons; for Japan 300,000 tons. (3}—That subfect to the 10-year lim {tation above fixed, and the maximum standard, capital ships may be re placed when they are 20 years old by new capital ship construction, (4}—That no capital ships shall he bullt in replacement with a tonnare displacement of more than 35,007 ton: “T have sketched the proposal on!y in outline.” said Secretary Hugher “leaving the technica) details to be supplied by the formal proposition which {s ready for submission to the delegates. “he plan includes provision for the limitation of auxiliary surface combatant craft. This term em braces three classes, that is: ()—Auxiliary surface combatan craft, such as cruisers (exclusive: 0! battle cruisers), flotilla ledders, de stroyers and various surface types {(2)}—Submarine and (@)—Alrplane carriers. “I shall not attempt to review the ei, Kongo—10. Total ton- nage’ 299,700. 4 Mr. Hughes laid down four genera! principles: 1—That all capital ships building Program, either actual or projected, should be abandoned. 2—That reduction should be made through the scrapping of certain of the older ships. lmited capita) Ing the tonnage of the four Hoods, if completed) would be 583,375 tons. - Japan: It is proposed that Japan 1—Shall abandon her program of ships not yet laid down, namely, the K-11, Owari No. 7 and No. 8, ba struction and all 10 of the predread- naught and battleships of the second Une. e tleships and numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 As & replacement program, the| battle cruisers, American government proposed that} It should be observed that this does no more ships be laid down for the! not involve the stopping of construc- next 10 years and’that a maximum) tion, as the construction of none of. replacement tonnage figure be fixed these ships has been begun. providing eventually for 500,000 tons’ 2—Shall scrap three capital ships for the United States! 500.000 tons for (the Mutsu launched, the Tosa, the Your Foot on a Buick Brake Gets Results Buick brakes, like Buick cars, don’t fail. 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We pray for Secretary Hughes sat in the cen.| the forward look or we shall be over- ter of the tables and with a white|whelmed in hopeless pessimism. Give slab of marble and a small gavel tn|ts the ability to think clearly, to front of him. At his right, in orGer,|Ju¢ge fairly, to act wisely. Help us Were Senator Lodge, Elfhu Root and|to think less often of our rights and Genator Underwood: on the |More often of our duties and respon- tary’s left was Mr. Balfour, head of | *tbilities, the British. Ten-thirty, the official] “We pray at this hour on behalf hour of opening the conference. pass./°* * World in. sore need. Thou art oh atts of. the delegations sti|"°t “mindful of the sufferings of aap rages ~ ‘the | T2Y people. The cries of multitudes peg Rey e pore Mit cao the | 0% Widows and orphans have come up before Thee, 0, God. We have had Soorway. CHEERS jour terrible baptism of blood. There iG. ’ jis hunger and pestilence and unut- |terable anguish. God forbid that the The audience rose and cheered as | woes of these years should ever again Mrs. Harding took her place at the|be visited upon the earth. Can it front of the box where the vice presi-|be that Thou hast permitted us thun Gent sat. The president came in at 10:83 o'clock and immediately Secre-| to suffer in order that we might turn | from our own devices to Thee and ac: tary Hughes called the conference to order. | | knowledge Thee as king of our lives | #nd our destinies? Out of the depths Prayer was offered by the presi-|we cry unto Thee. Save us or we dent's pastor, Rev. W. 8. Abernethy! perish. of calvary Baptist church. He; “May we walk softly and humbly prayed as follows: before Thee, this day and throughout “Almighty God, we thank Thee for| the fateful days of this great confer- the coming of this eventful day. Welence, May we be intent on knowing haye seen it from afar and now we Mr. Harding read his speech slow- ly and delfberately from small printed pages which he laid in the hollow of his lett hand. With his right he punctuated his statements with driv- ing gestures. The first applause came when the president declared that the conference must have a “signal in- fluence” on ‘the fortunes of the world. ‘There was more applause when Mr. Harding asked how civilization ever could justify he destruction of the last: great war. Still again he was answered by loud ‘clapping when he said war should be “outlzwed” and the resources of the world turned into constructive chan- nels, There was the tensest silence as the President pronounced the keynote of the conference as follow! “The United States welcomes you with unselfish hands. We harbor no fears; we have ho sordid ends to sdtve; we suspect no enemy; we con- template or apprehend no conquest. Content with what we have, we seek nothing that is another's. We only wish to do with you that, finer, nobie thing which no nation can do alone. We wish to sit with you at the table cf international understanding ar-l good will, In good conscience we are eager to meet you frankly and inyite and offer co-operation. The world de- mands a sober contemplation of the [existing order and the realization chat there can be no cure without sacri e not by one of us, but by all of us. I do not mean surrendered rights, or narrowed freedom, of denied aspjra- tions or ignored na nal necessities. Thy will; and knowing it, may we|Our republic would no more ask for rejolce that it has at last dawned.| have the courage to do jt. And may |these than it wyould give. No pride May it bring untold blessing to a|it now be that the findings of this|need be humbled, no nationality sul troubled world. ©, Thou Omnipotent| conference shall be so wise, so fur. Qne, as in other days, we believe that| reaching and so beneficial, that all Thou dost guide in human affairs.|mankind may take new hope and Thou hast made of one blood all na-| fresh courage. And to Thee shall be tions that dwell upon the earth, and| the praise and ihe glory forever and though we are of many Amen.” at the conclusion of President Harding rose! The audience and some of the deie- and bexan delivery of his address. |gations came to their feet applauding The president had stood during the when Mr. Hardin declared America fare and happiness id prosperity of) prayer with bowed head between Mfr.| wanted “less of armament and none of the human family are inexpressibly| Hughes and the pastor. At the con-|war” and wanted to work to that end. dear to Thy heart. We pray for clear| clusion of the prayer, Secretary islon 2 we Aball Erope blindly for) Hughes, stepping forward and lifting the light and lose our|way. We pray| his hand, said: ‘ : IN for hearts lovingly sympathetic to hu-| “The ‘esident RC ep man distress. wherever it may exist,| States. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(Ry The or wre shall sink into the depth of a| There was an outburst of applause! Associated Preas)—Secretary Hughes miserable selfiahness. We pray for|and then intense silence ad the presi.,!" his address today, accepting the minds willing to “believe that the dent began speaking. merged, but I would have a mergenc of minds committing all of us to less preparation for war, and more enjoy- ment of fortunate peace.” The delegates at the main table fol lowed the reading line by line, from copies they had. ‘May We feel assured that the wel-| HUGHES ACKNOWLEDGES of the United Ist permanent chairmanship of the con- |ferenco on limitation of armaments, spoke in part as follows: adequately met and the nations will Ronen me. to express the moat have ample opportunity during the! coraiat appreciation of the assurancns Tavy holiday of 10 years to consider of friendly co-operation. which have their future course. Preparation for been generously expressed by the rep: future naval war shall stop now. I resentatives of all the invited govern. shall not attempt at this time, to take ments. The earnest desiro and pur. 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Mrs. h empire, France, to participate in @ the subject of lmita- tion of armament, in connection with which; Pacific and Far Eastern ques- tions also- would be discussed. The lies that the interests of other powers in the it appropriate that they should be inyjted to participate and Far .|tion of disarmament,’ tion to take part in the discussion of extended the Netherlands “The world looks to this conference to relieve humanity of the crushing burden created by competition in arm- should “It is therefore proposed that the conference should proceed at once to consider the question of the limitation “This, however, does not mean that -}in the greatest war of history to deal k among designated committees to make progress to the engs sought to be achieved without a hindrance to the proper consideration “Tho proposal to limit armament by agreement of the powers in not a new one, and We are admonished by the futility of earller effort. To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which are €hreaten- ing the whole world—such ig the su- weme duty which is today imposed “It was with this sense of obligation of Russia, proposed the conferénce which Was ‘to occupy itself with this grave Problem’ and which met at The Hague “It was seven years later that the United in answering Instruction in Piano, For Five Years Supervisor Public Graduate. of Franklin Academy of “Music; post graduate work ity School of Music, Will accept a few more pupils for instruction in plano ana Fred F. Massinger PAGE SEVEN @ note of the Russian ambassador suggesting in outline a program of second peace conference said: ot the United it to be its duty to reserve for itself the liberty to pro- ose to the second peace conference ‘as one of the subjects for considera- “on, the reduction or lItmiation of armaments, in the hope, that if noth- ing further can be accomplished, some slight advance may be made toward the realization the lofty concep- tion which actuated the emperor of Russia in calling the first confer- ence opposed to the ques- and that the émporer of Germany threatened to decline to send delegates if the sub- ject of disarmament was to be dis- ed. “But by the reason of the obstacles which the subject had encountered, the second peace conference at The Hague although it made notable pro- gress in provision for the peaceful settlement of controversies, was un- able to deal with imitation of arma- ment except by a resolution in gen- eral terms. “This was the fruition of the ef- forts of eight years. Although the ef fect was clearly perceived, the race we must postpone the examination of |!" Preparation of armaments, wholly the Far Eastern questions. These] Unaffected by these futile suggestions, Questions of vast importance, press} Went on until it fittingly culminated and We are now suffering from the un- parallele~ loss of life, the destruction of hopes, the economic dislocations and the widespread impoverishment which measure the cost of the victory over the brutal pretensions of mil- Itary force. FRENCH ARE NOT OVERLY OPTIMISTIC. PARIS, Nov. 12.—Interest, but not undue optimism, marks the French attitdde toward the armament confer- ence, as evidenced by the editorial com- ment In the morning newspapers, “Will the Washington conference which opens today really begin a new era, as some of our American friends think?” asks the Figaro. “After our painful experience of the last three years we are not free to gi ourselves up to rose-colored illusions. M. 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