NEW ARMS CONFERENCE?
AMERICAN NAVY'S DECLINE
OUTLOOK NOT FAVOURABLE,
(Sydney Sun Cable.)
(Received 11th December, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, 10th December.
The "Daily News" says President Coolidgo's Budget message is believed to foreshadow invitations to a new conference for limiting war fleets in order to securo the last chance in this direction. Washington is actuated by tho progress of British cruiser construction, the introduction of a new Japanese building plan, and the largo French combatant tonnage which have collectively upset the balance of power in auxiliary craft, which the Washington Conference sought to stabilise, besides causing a marked decline in the relative United States naval strength.
The prospects of a conference are not considered bright in view of the British Admiralty's opposition to a fixed ratio of cruisers and destroyers, while submarines remain unlimited; also France's refusal to reduce her submarines. The British feel that a conference would revive the submarine squabble with France. If tho conference prove futile, fresh American naval propaganda is inevitable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 141, 11 December 1926, Page 9
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