FIVE-FIVE-THREE PLAN.
MORE SHIPS TO BE ALLOWED. RATIO NOT AFFECTED. United Service. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The special representative of the United Service at the Washington Conference saysl am in a position to state that the five-five-three proportion has been accepted bv the Japanese delegation, anJ most probably will be acceptable to the Tokio authorities. " The relativity of th e proportion is maintained," though each of the three Powers will increase the actual number of capital ships. The conditions for the five-five-three proportion are as follows: Japan retains the Mutsu, which is 98 per cent, completed. This in turn means that the British will build two ships of the Hood type, for which material is now assembled, representing 10 per cent, of completion, and the United States ipill complete two Marylands, 60 per cent, of the work on which lias been done. " These steps are necessary in order to retain the five-five-three ratio. This arrangement necessarily modifies the 10 years' naval holiday programme in so far as it permits Britain and the United States to complete the ships mentioned above."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17957, 6 December 1921, Page 7
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