New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1927, Page 3

THREE POWERS IN NAVAL CONFERENCE Limitaton of Strength Begun at Washigton to Be Finished Geneva, June 19UP—The object of the three-power naval conference whici opens tomorrow, is to com- plete the work of limitation of na- val strength begun at the five-power conference in Washington. There a treaty was signed in 1922 limiting the tonnage of battleships for the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, limiting also the tonnage of aircraft carriers and li- miting the size of individual cruis- s to ten thousand tons. The Wash- ington treaty laid down the now fa- mous ratio of 5-5-3 and resulted in the scrapping of a large number of tattleships. By.the treaty, Great Britain was permitted to have a total battleship tonnage ot 525,000 tons, the United States the same tonnage, Japan; 315.- 000, and France and Italy - each 175,000 tons. The giving to France and Italy of a lower ratio than to the others cpused in later years con- siderable criticism, especially in I'rance, where it was openly stated that France could never accept a similar ratio for auxiliary craft, de- stroyers and submarines, which are to be treated at tomorrow’s confer- :nee. The Washington Treaty fixed 35,- 600 tons standard displacement as | the maximum tonnage of each cap- ital ship to be constructed by the signatories, and fixed the maximum caligre of guns aboard at 16 inches. The total tonnage for aircraft car- riers was placed at 135,000 tons for the United States and Great ®eitain: §1,000 tons for Japan: and 60.000 tons each for France and Italy. Although the treaty fixed maximum tonnage of cruisers at 10.000 and the maximum gun calibre aboard at & inches, no 1imit was placed upon the number ot cruisers that any signatory could construct. And -one result of this the fact has been that both Great Bri-| tain and Japan have built'up cruis- er forces in excess of that of the United States. A feature of the Washington con- | forence was the United States ac- coptance of a Japanese proposal to maintain the spect to fortifications and naval bas- s In the Pacific ocean. This meant that the United States could not in-. crease its fortifications or naval b: g in the Philippines, Guam and the ® Aleutian Islands, though Americans | are free to add to their fortifica- | tions in the Hawaiian group and in | the islands adjacent to the coast of | Panama Canal Zone., In an address delivered at New Haven, Conn.. December 18 Charles E. Hughes, who was Seere- tary of State and head of the American delegation to the Wash-| ington conference, voiced his regret ! that an American proposal for the limitation of auxiliary wareraft was | not accepted by the conference. The American delegation had proposed | a ratlo in auxiliary craft similar to that recognized by the tredty for capital shipe. The failure to'settle | the problem of auxiliary craft at| Washington inducad President Cool- idge to convoke tomorrow’s confer- ence in order that naval limitation | shall be extended to all categories of wars Naval experts here are | quite ready to admit that unless the | ccal of limitation affects all war- ships, there will inevitably be in- creased construction Ly nations of | those warships upon which no re- strictions are laid. Treaty in Force The Washington treaty remains in force until December 31. 1936. In case none of the contracting powers shall have given notice two years befors that date of its intention to terminate the treaty, it shall con- tinue in force until the expiration | of two vears from the date on which notice of termination is given by one of the powers. The Washington conference achieved other things besides the limiting of capital ships and aircraft ! carriers. Tt arranged a treaty com- | cerning use of submarines and poi- son gases; it defined principles and | policies in matters concerning China, | including Chinese custom tariffs: it | aborated Shantung treaty between | China and Japan, whereby the pro-| vince of Confucius was restored to Chinese sovereignty: and finally, and | in the opinion of many foreign | statesmen, most important of ‘all, it got rid of the Anglo-Japanese Al-’ liance and substituted therefore a four power treaty between the Uni- ted States, the British l:mph—o.. France and Japan, which, based up- | en their insular possessions and do- minions in the Pacific Ocean, is re- | ally an instrument for the mainte- | nance of peace in the Pacific. Hughes has given as one of the| nain reasons for the success of the| Washington Conference the fact that it. was restricted in naval matters to & small group of powers who| were dealing with problems in which | they had a common inter It is believed that the same remark may | apply to tomorrow’s conference, ! where the threc big naval powers concerned are supposed to have a common intrest in reaching an un- derstanding concerning auxiliary warships and a common desire to avold a naval race which involves; cnormous expenditure in the con- struction of warships. Although the United States. Great | PBritain and Japan, are practically in accord concerning th: method of limiting navies, their position on this | question 1s at variance with that of I'rance and Italy. who declined the| Amerlcan invitation to participate in the parley but who were later requested to send observers provided they could not agree to full-fledged As was revealed during the ses- slons of the League of Nations com- n which has been preparing agenda for a general disarma- conference, “big 3" naval s believe that the total naval of any one power should be distributed definitely at the time of signing the treaty inlo eategories, BF t¥pes,” OF WArShips; as, for ex- ample, =0 much tonnage for cruis- ers, so much for destroyers and so much for submarines. Total Tonnage But. France and Italy disclosed themselves as tenacious advocates of the so-called “total tonnage" axa- individual | status quo with re-| tem. That is to say, they want free- | dom to apportion their total ton- | nage to the types of warships they deem best suited to the protection of their national independence and, the safeguarding of their security. At the final meeting of the League's | preparatory commission France | made what she termed 'a compro- | mise proposal framed with the pur- | pose of conciliation, but which Brit- | {ish and American experts declared |to be unsatisfactory. The proposal was that France would disclose the | aggregate tonnage she expected !oe build tn a particular type of war-| ship but that this distribution of | her total tonnage could be modified | provided one year's notice was given | of an intended departure from zm: treaty-fixed allocation. | An Italian proposal went less far than the French. It was that all powers should be left free to ap-! portion their total naval tonnage in the manner best rieeting their na- tional needs, with the understanding, however, that six months before lay- ing the keel of a warship a descrip- tion of the ship should be filed with the League of Nations. The British delegates, who were really volcing the views of the Amer- icans as well, found both French and Italian suggestions inadequate and unacceptable on the ground that they gave an element of uncertain- ty to all future naval building pro- grams. They contended that ani agreement was only possible and, in- | deed, practicable if all the import- ant naval powers know exactly not only the total tonnage of their fel- low nations but also the exact dis- tribution of this tonnige into par- ticular types of warships. Put con- cretely, England would want to know how many submarines France and Italy intended to construct in order that she herself might reach a de- cision as to her’own nceded subma- rine strength in the Mediterranean to protect her trade route to India and in the North Sea to protect the |coul! ot her homeland. The League commission separated without reaching any accord on this| | vital aspect of disarmament with the hope that governments would find means of attaining an agreement, or that the three-power conference would hasten a general accord by | bringing about a treaty between the United States, Great Britain and Ja- pan. The ardent hope i3 being expressed here that tomorrow’s conference will | bo more successful than an attempt launched by the League of Nations | three years ago to secure an ex- | tension of the principles of the { Washington treaty to the smaller | naval powers who were not signa- | .tory to that treaty. Mecting at Rome | This league attempt took the form lof a meeting in Rome of a sp | eommission on which sat represent- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HER;\LD, MONDAY, JUNE and the Belts should be forbidden to warships of countries which had no coastline on the Baltic, and finally that the Korean Straits which played a historic role during the Russo- Japanese war, should be completely demilitartzed. GIBSON HIGH IN DIPLOMATIC CORPS | American Delegate to Nawal| Gonference Made Rapid Rise | Geneva, June 20 (A—Few men in | the American diplomatic service have risen more swiftly than Hugh | Gibson of Los Angeles, California, | American delegate to the three-! power maval conference, which | opened today at Geneva. It was especialy during the war, | | when he was secretary of the Amer- ican Legation -at Brussels, that he | won his laurels. There, serving with | Minister Brand Whitlock, he en-| deared himself to the people of Bel- | glum by his ceaseless effort to pr teet the interests of Belgian citi- zens during the days of the:German | occupation. Only - recently Gibson was appointed ambassador to Bel- gium and on the occasion of his visit there to present his credentials, was acclaimed by the people as he walked through the streets of Brus-| sels, for his services during the war 1ad' not been forgotten. | Gibson is only 44. His wifs s a Boigian, formerly Miss Ynes Rey- | who served as a nurse at the ! Belgian front during the war. Befors | going to Belgium as secretary. Gib- | son served at Honduras, at London, | at Washington, at Havana and later was on duty with Herbert Hoover. ' now Secretary of Commerce, in gen- | cral war relief work. Subsequently he was appointed minister to Poland and then minister to Switzerland. He was vice-chair- man of the American delegation to the international conterence for the | control of the traffic in arms, held at Geneva in 1925 and presided over | the Americandelegation which has been participating in the com fon appointed by the League of Nations to prepare the agenda for a general | disarmament conference---land, sea | and air. Further meetings of this | preparatory commission are expected | to be held in the, fall. Gibson is an ardent golfer, plays A snappy game of polo, his book, “A Journal from Our Legation in Relgium,” which is a vivid account of the war days, has had such a de- mand that it is now out of print and Gibson is being urged by his friends ' pany has controlled the {ripeness at which they | prominent in their | This is not a &rcam, RADIO FUTURE IS HINTED IN TALK {Admiral Bullard Speaks ol | 5o Trinity Graduation Hartford, June 20 (A—Broadcast- in iz .rops was pred'~ted by Ad- miral W. H. G. Bullard, chairman of the federal radio commission, as a possibility of the future, based upon established scientific facts, iIn | his address yesterday as a part of | |the 101st commencement program of | Trinity college. “As a sidelight to radio, with its attendant dissipation of electri- |cal energy, radiated from many powkrful transmitters through the ' numerous antennae,” said Admiraf | | Bullard, “comes the remarkable fact that plant life, subjected to the bom- bardment of these clectric waves, shows extremely rapid growth. This | has been tested and proven in many | instances: flowers an’ vegetable |ripen quickly and grow to unusual | sizes. “For years the United Fruit com- degree of can deliver their fruit to the markets by appli- tion of high frequency electric cur- | “Certain soils are posscss properties of radio activity which releases the high gamma ray. which stimulates growth of p was made recen spreading pow - trom Colorudo o the 4 radio active soil v the original soil in u rice field. The resulting rice crop was tremendous.’ The attraction b persons and anima | doubtedly due to st | their natural periods of vibration. The seniors were warned that “I am sure that any of you who would | like to enter the broadcasting field will find it so congested that would ba disheartened at Radio broadecasting through large chains and stations “opens up a field of untold possibilities for the emination of knowledge to the masses, and a university or college could have a nationwide course in any subject that is tauzht by mea of lectures, or talks by people own specialty. but & very you definite possibility.” known to! alifornia by | outset.” ! 927. | The baccataureate sermon last; night was preached at Christ church | carhcdral by Rev. Henry J. Condit | of Ithaca. N. Y. who brought out | the revolution in man's conception | of God caused by scientific knowl- | edge of the universe, making of God a personal force still engaged upon uncompleted work. This makes possible, he said, a partnership with | God in service.and labor in and for | the world. | Such co-operation with God, said | !Dr. Condit, was evidenced b; Pasteur, the Curles, the Mayos, , Colonel Waring. Colonel Gorgas, General Goethals, and the host of | sclentists who are now or have been | working for better homes, better | citles, better food, and longer and happler lives. [NEW ENGLAND URGES f LAKES 10 SEA ROUTE Committee in Washington to Speed | Up Negotiations With Canada For New Waterway Washington, June 20 (#—TUrging the United States to promptly ne- | | gotlate a treaty with Canada to- | wards consummation of the project, | |a committee representing all six of ! the New England states has unani- i it 1 mously approved the construction by | the two governments of a navigable waterway from the Great Lakes to | Atlantic via the &t. Lawrence trequency | r erway by the reduction in nsportation costs, said the com- report. mads public here . would “ufford more real "\'flh middle western and central states farmers than any other | for the amelioration of It was described as | stment of national re- proposal “ their condition. capital ir ’, haracter” and the anticipated I duced transportation costs and pros- || could return “exceptionaly “ > dividends.” i it 1 BOY CAUGHT OUT LATE Investigating report to police head- | arters that'three or four young!| re with an intoxicated man on yette street near the Russell & Erwin factory and acted as though they intended to “roll” him, Officers Schoonmaker and Gigliotti brough: !a 15 year old boy to the police sta tion about 10:45 Saturday night. H will be turned over to Miss Ru’ Bristoll. woman probation officer. | Russia, : made | the naval tonnage tha |armament conference, | ever, that he i treaty which | Bosporus smaller states who pos- | sessed battleships, including Soviet which was invited not as a small power but as a nation whose naval strength was considerably re- duced. So many reservations were | by the participiting powers | to the draft convention formulated, and so high were the demands for the Leagus saw little use in endeavoring to pro- ceed in the plan of =xtending the Washington principles. Argentine, ! Chili, Denmark_ Greece. Holland, ! "% Norway. Soviet Russia and Tarkey, | [esidential districts, the club has all were Invited to send delegates, | Purchased property at Park avenue | and all*acceptsd except’Turk " land 63th street for a new home. | Sentins sent merely hii:chaer The present building is worth $3.- the representative of Urugu 090,000, Tt is located at 51st street, | was present by virtue of the fact|OPPOsite St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The | that his country was a member of | Price paid for the new site, in the the permanent. military commission |heart of the city’s new exclusive | of the League, announced that he |2r®d. Was approximately $1,265.000. must refrain from expressing any opinion on the subjects to be treated. g As during the recent sessions of Alexander Kaminski of 11 Orange | the League commission which Is Strect, who was returned to the seeking to prepare for a grneral dis- | School for Boys at Meriden on May the sessions | 25, escapepd Saturday, according to at Rome revealed that many powers | word received by the local police. 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