DISARMAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1922, Page 7

DISARMAMENT

NEW AMERICAN SCHEME

LIMITATION OF AUXILIARIES.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTftIQHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-- NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 13th December. The House of Representatives Appro' priations Committee, in reporting on the Naval Appropriations Bill, incorporated the request that President Harding should call a new naval armament limitation conference in the hope that agreement may be reached among the world Powers to limit auxiliary naval vessels under 10,000 tons. The same Powers that signed the Washington Conferenoe Naval Limitation Treaty would be invited to the new conference. The Committee points out that some nations ■were planning larger building programmes along lines not restricted by the Washington Conference. Th« report warns 'the United States not to allow any nation to outbuild it in aircraft; submarines, or other auxiliaries if a limitation agreement is not able to be reached. The- form of the Committee's request necessitates the approval of Congress.' The Committee recommended appropriations of 290,220,812 dollars, a reduction of 546,935 dollars on the current year's appropriation, and provides for a naval strength of 86,000 men. A vote of 41,000,000 dollars is recommended for increasing the floating strength. If the entire naval building programme, under the terms of the Washington Treaty, were carried ou^, it would cost 88,000,000 dollars.