Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 5

* BRITAIN PROPOSES . PACTS TO FRANCE Macdonald Cabinet Seeks Compromise Permitting Fleet Reduction. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. 4 By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. C t, 1930, opyright, LONDON, .England, February 14— With the presentation of the French | figures and the beginning of negotia- | tions for pacts affording guaranties of | Peace, the London conference is now at last in full swing. Everything which has happened heretofore has been mmerely tentative and preliminary. On Tuesday, the British cabinet met and challenged the figures of Prime | Minister Macdonald's agreement at the | Rapidan camp with President Hoover as too high and as not involving suf- ficlent economies for Great Britain. The cabinet decided that the only way to get real reduction is to lower the| French figures so as to enable Great -Britain to come down too. Pact Negotiations Open. The ministers realized that one of | the best ways to do this was to meet | the French desire for one or more new pacts. They authorized Prime Minis- ter Macdonald and Foreign Minister | . Henderson to go ahead in this respect. Wednesday night French Foreign Minister Briand and Mr. Macdonald opened the pact negotiations. The French proposed a new agreement to consult under the Kellogg pact and to refuse supplies to & pact breaker. This | proposal is now being studied by Brit- ish jurists with a view to submitting | a joint Franco-British propesal to the | United States. | The French had dropped the idea of | 8 Mediterranean pact. They intended | not to propose it again, since Great | Britain seemed to dislike it and Italy was hostile. It was Mr. himself who revived the question. Mediterranean Pact Offered. Yesterday morning, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Henderson, M. Briand, Premier ‘Tardieu, Secretary Stimson and Am- bassador Morrow had a long talk. Mr. Henderson offered the French a Medi- terranean pact, not, however, of mutual assistance. The French are consider- ing this British proposal. The British further intimated that it the French come down on their figures, Great Britain will help France meet the difficulties presented by the | Italian point of view. The British and the Americans bnth}m asked for explanations of the French figures and these were duly promised. It was intimated that if the French persist in their present tonnage claims, an agreement here will be difficult. The French asked the British and the Americans to make some counter sug- gestions and emphasized once more that their figures are tentative and depend on various otner factors, such as the security pacts. A careful analysis of the French figures reveals that whereas the French memorandum estimates the present strength of the French Navy at 682,000 tons, its real strength in effective com- bat units is only 436,000 tons. In other words, the French are counting a lot of old worn-out ships of extremely doubtful combat value. One Capital Ship in Program. ‘The French memorandum further | indicates that by 1936, the French Navy | ‘would be increased by only 43,000 tons | notably by one capital ship of 23,000 | tons, and three new 8-inch-gun cruisers. | ‘The rest of the French construction would be wholly in replacements. | It is obvious in these. circumstances that the main British effort must be to | find a way to persuade the French to reduce, first, the submarine; second, the | eight-inch-gun cruiser, and third, the small cruiser and destroyer totals. One way would be by a Mediterranean pact D 3 and by reinforcement of the Kellogg treaty. Another way would be through 2 direct Franco-British entente of some kind. A third way would . be more drastic raductions all around, including the British and the American fleets, Cost to U. S. $848,814,000. The cost to the United States of naval parity with Great Britain by 1936, as things are now going at the five-power conference, and provided the Macdonald | — Will Rogers Says: NEW YORK.—Want » show how a thing in our country can acch dentally gain prominence. Last Monday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, I was .itting in the Senate gallery talking to Senator Copeland. Sen- ator Norris had just finished on Hughes, and they were ready to vote. Senator Blease asked that it be left over till morning. It was just a formality. There was prac- tically no opposition. If voted on then there would have been nothing to it, but now look at it! It just ‘shows that if you can start arguing over something, and get enough and keep the argument u can divide our Nation over night as to whether spinach or brocceoli are the most nutritious. We can get hot and bothered quicker over nothing, and cool off faster than any Nation in the world. (Copsright, 1930.) CADETS ARE DESIGNATED. Five Are Appointed by Hoover, Subject to Examinations. ‘The President has appointed the fol- lowing named young men as cadets at large at the West Point Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance examination in March: Pelham D. Glassford, jr., 2127 P street, Washington; Peyton ~Magruder, 1445 Manchester lane, Washington; Robert M. Emery, Fort Hunt, Va.; James W. Totten, San Antonio, Tex., and Jack- son D. Arnold, Fort Lewis, Wash. Lecturer Reviews World Affairs. S. K. Ratcliffe »f London delivered a lecture last night at Central High School Community Center from the subject: “The World From London,” being a review of world affairs. Mr. Ratcliffe spoke under auspices of the Community Institute. creasing ours in consequence, is esti- mated to be $848,814,000. This means a new building and replacement ex- penditure of $169,762,800 each year for five years, instead of about $50,000,000, the sum spent in the last two or three years. This estimate is based on the follow- ing presumption, which seems to issue from the present state of the negotia- tions here. The United States will build one capital ship, costing $50,000,000; finish seven 8-inch-gun cruisers, $17,- 000,000; build 10 new 8-inch-gun crui- sers, $170.000,000; build eight 6-inch- cruisers, $120,000,000; wholly 47 destroyers, $94,000,000: place partially nine others, $9,00¢ build 81 destroyers, $162,000,000: place partially five submarines, $7,- 814,000: build 54,000 tons additional of submarines, $162,000,000, and build 100. three aircraft carriers, $57,000,000. —_— S, e XK Graduat MeCormick Medieal ~Glasses Fitted Cotiese Eves Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Spec Phone National 0321 409-410 MeLachlen Blde, Sts. N.W. GREATEST Usen car sa Chevrolet History SEE OURISMAN ADV., PAGE C-2 e ———— We Can Supply Everything to Enclose Your Back Porch have all the necessary . including W indow rames, windows, = Celotex, Fineetrock. paint and hardware. 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TOKIO, February 14.—In a memo- randum handed the American and other | naval delegations Wednesday, it was learned authoritatively today, the Jap- anese offered two alternative tonnage, proposals corcerning the Japanese and American Navies only. The memorandum explained that since Great Britain and America had | agreed to the parity principle, the Jap- | anese considered themselves justified in| making the American fleet the standard for Japan’s requirements. | The first proposed schedule wa America, 180,000 tons in large cruise! agaiLst Japan's 126,000; America, 147 000 tons in small cruis aga Ja pan’s 100,000; America, 150,000 tons in destroyers, against Japan's 105,00 America, 82,000 tons in submarines, against Japan's 78,500, Under this proposal Japan would at- | tain her proposal allotment of large| cruisers, adding {wo others of 8.800 tons cach to the existing 12, which total Go WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY Meet Spring at Virgin 108,400. Japan also will retain her pres- ent submarine strength. ‘The alternative proposal is for Amer- ica to have 150,000 tons in large cruis- ers and Japan 108 400—present strength. America would have 189,000 tons in small cruisers and Japan 120,000; Amer- ica would have 150,000 tons in destroy- ers and Japan 105,000; America 82,000 tons in submarines and Japan 78.500. Although officials here have not had time to study the statement of Premier Tardieu yesterday at London, it was understood the first impression they had formed was that the demands of another power for tonnage which dif- fered so greatly from those of the "Vash- ington treaty probably would strengthen Japan's claim for a 70 per cent ratio of auxiliary craft. COMDR. F ROST ADVANCED. 14, 1930. 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