THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936.
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On the subject of cruisors the U.S. delegation proved moro ac- commodating and agreed- to suspend, for some years at any rate, the bullding of 10,000-ton ships with 8in guns. Thus, for the duration of the forthcoming treaty, all new cruisers will be restricted to 8,000 tons and 6.1in guns. For other types re- vised or existing limits have been confirmed, namely, nir- craft-carriera 22,000 tons; de- stroyers, 1,850 tons, submarines, 2,000 tons.
COST OF SHIPS The concossion in regard to AFTER
chequered the intimate relation of naval scheme were raised by the other cruisers is of considerable im-
armaments to policies. career of three months months before had come the dis- replaced by a less comprehensive Government's new defence plan Six parties, and eventually it was portance to this country. The
the London Naval Confer- closure of Geremany's rearma- plan, which has found general will necessitate the building of
ment, involving, inter alia, a big favour.
some 25 cruisers during the next ence has resulted in an
naval programme. One of the It binds each Power to com five or six years. Had the form- Agreement of sorts, and it is Immediate results was de- municate, in the early part of er quantitative limit on this type claration by France of "com- each calendar your, reasonably remained in force many of the now possible to measure plete freedom of action" in the full details of its shipbuilding now. vessels would have had to some of its achievements.
future development of her own programme, the number and be of 9,000 to 10,000 tons, for types of ships concerned,. their it is bad policy to build ships Beginning as a five-Powen naval armaments.
Furthermore, the preliminary tonnage, armament and other Inferior in tonnage and arma- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. 35 New Features of Performance meeting it ended in what talks held in London during the relevant data. By this means ment to foreign contemporaries. was practically a tripartite autumn of 1934 had revealed naval preparations should be As it is, however, none of the acute differences between the divested of the element of new cruisers will exceed 8,000 conclave... Japan broke Powera 'concerned on funda- secrecy which in past years has tons. Since current building been a fruitful cause of inter costs for this type average £200 away.in the second month, mental points of naval policy.
national friction.
a ton, there may be a saving of and Italy, though still In view of these natecedent Had the Conference achieved as much as £250,000 on the price nominally a member, re- events, a conference aiming at no more than this, its labours of each now cruiser, or £6,250,- the retrenchment of naval forces would have been amply justified. 000 on the entire cruiser pro- fused to append her signa- seemed to be foredoomed to But it has further results to gramme. That is a very sub- ture to any covenant which failure. There was indeed, a show.
stantial gain, widely-held conviction that it `The qualitative restriction of may issue from the proceed- must prove utterly sterile. naval armaments is second • în ings.
Happily, that belief has been iniportance only to their quanti- placed the heavy cost of falsified.
tation. During the 15 years now capital ships, which are un- That the results of the Con-
From the Anglo-American preceding the Washington Con- likely to be of less displacement ference fall far short of the viewpoint the main purpose of ference the size and
Hopes cost of than 33,600 tons. A marriage has been arranged and original is only too evident. the Conference was to continue battleships had been trebled: still cherished that the U.S. will shortly take place between The surprising fact is, how the system of quantitative cruisers had become almost as naval authorities will in a few Captain Vivian Pupham, The
pre-war battle years time consent to review ever, not that comparatively lit- limitation established by the expensive as South Wales Bordererk, youngest
tle has emerged from it but Washington Treaty of 1921 and ships, and in every country the the question of battleship dimen- that anything positive should supplemented by the London in- cost of naval defence was being sions, which in the opinion of strument of 1930, both of which forced up to ruinous figures. all other naval experts are un- have emerged at all.
duly inflated. It assembled under the worst lapse on December 31, 1936.
Such limitation could be made
A formal treaty embodying as conditions imaginable, in the
This movement was arrested its main features the annual midst of the Italo-Abyssinian effectual only by adhering to
the ratio formula on which the by the Washington-London trea- exchange of information as to crisis, which emphasised anew
-expiring agreements are based. ties, which fixed limits to the shipbuilding programmes and Japan, however, flatly refused to tonnage displacement and gun the new qualitative limits on consider any proposal embody- calibre of every type of man- future construction has been held to be injurious to her limits were excessive in British the Conference.. prestige. Instead, she laid opinion, they were certainly bet-
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NOTES OF THE DAY ing the ratio method, which she of-war. Though several of the approved at a plenary session of
STICKING TO LEAGUE
claim to a "common upper ter than nothing, and there was POWERS' ATTITUDE
YEAR'S PROGRAMMES
the Three-Power Treaty, and
ALIEN OFFICERS ON Mr. Anthony Eden has made it limit" of naval tonnage, equiva- a danger that when the exist Some minor technical points.
BRITISH SHIPS
clear that Great Britain is sticking lent to full naval equality with ing treaties expired a new race remain to be settled, but unless to the League of Nations, that she the British Empire and the in tons and guns might develop, an unforeseen hitch occurs in British policy at the present diplomatic procedure the accept- About a month ago, Hongkong will support smctions against Italy United States.
For reasons lucidly explained Conference has aimed at fixing ance of this new treaty for the was presented with a shipping and, in the matter of penalties problem when London against an aggressor, will go as far at the time, neither of those new and much narrower limits limitation of naval armaments registered steamer, chartered by as the other member-states; ut two Powers was able to accept for future construction. Capital by the British Empire, the Both argued with ships were to be restricted to United States, and France is as- Mr. Eden reiterates, Britain will this demantl. a Japanese company, but flyinggo no farther. For this reason the unanswerable logic that equality 25,000 tons, as against 35,000, sured. The possibility offnavals, the Red Ensign; arrived in port construction pinced by some obser of armaments would not and and cruisers cut down from 10.- rivalry between those tower? with the whole of her officers vera in Geneva upon the Foreign could not confer equality of 000 to 7,000 tons. Submarines during the currency of the and crew. excepting three Secretary's speech, and their sug-
security.
should be wholly abolished, or treaty has thus been sensibly re- Britons, of Inpanese nationality. gestion that it carries an ominous
alternatively dwarfed to a size, duced. Attempt's made to refuse the hint of independent action against
say 250 tons, which would con- Vessel her clearance papers Italy. seems a little far-fetched.
mt at hand the precise. After the definite rejection of fine them to coastal waters. bringing Germany and Russia Negotiations with a view to failed. on the ground that, by We have
common upper These proposals, with the excep- reason of the run on which the text of the address he delivered to her claim to a ship was engaged, no- infringe that should the League Inse from the Conference on January approved in principle by Japan, her readiness to conclude with the League Council, but the gist of limit, Japan formally withdrew tion of the submarine plan, were into the compact are proceeding, Germany has already signified ment of the provisions of the what prestige and authority it has 14, but left two "observers." France and Italy, all of whom Shipping Acts in regard to left, should this be the result of As her secession destroyed the favour smaller warships,
Great Britain a separate agree- personnel had been committed. the failure of conciliation in the last hope of achieving any con. But the United States, whose ment covering all the points of During the past week-end, Italo-Ethiopian dispute, nations will another vessel similarly officered have to reconsider their policies-crete measure of quantitative naval policy is dominated by came into port. These are the Britain amongst them. Just how limitation, the remaining four the contingency of war in the Russia is understood to be will- first two ships, to arrive here he would propose to alter the Powers addressed themselves to vast spaces of the Pacific, where ing to take similar action. under these circumstances, but British foreign policy if the League the task of devising other means bases are few and far between, Thus, the only Powers liable to the question of the right to no longer existed, or existed only of checking naval competition. and who therefore regards her remain outside the covenant are
as a substantial burial place of the Britain suggested a plan by battleships as mobile points Italy and Japan. operate such British-registered world's Idenia, Mr. Eden gives us which each country would com--d'appui, held out firmly for The former's abstention is due vessels, with the majority of no hint. However, some interpret municate to the others the larger dimensions. So the old to political causes unrelated to officers and crew of alien his remarks no significant, and they maximum aggregate of naval limit of 35,000 tons for capital the Conference itself. Should tionality, had already been may be.
tonnage it proposed to build ships is to be retained, but new, they cease to operate there is raised in the House of Commons: We are prepared to admit that over a period of five or six years, ships will mount guns of 14in' little doubt that Italy will ac- in connection with craft engaged there appears to be what the Ameri- Various objections to this instead of 16in. in the Mediterranean trade. It can advertising experts so aptly was then disclosed that, under call a "build up" in progress, which the existing laws, nothing could is actually a psychological prepara- be done in the matter. The [tion for an announcement or event. position, it appears, is covered Mr. Duff-Cooper, the War Secre- by a section of the Aliens Registary, is the latest contributor, to tration (Amendment) Act of the campaign. He has asked the
England to make ital 1919, which lays down that no Church of
with regard to alien shall act as master, chief position clear,
wants to know soldiering. He officer or chief engineer of any whether one is not justified in British merchant ship, registered taking up arms if one's treasured in the United Kingdom, "except possessions are threatened with in the caso of a ship or bont destruction. What is one to do, omployed habitually in voyages for instance, if a robber walks between ports outside the into one's home and picks up the United Kingdom.” It will be silverware? As did the priest in seen from this particular provi-Les Miserables: give the stuff the Hongkong sion that nothing could be done away? Or like by the local authorities, even if police in the case of the robbery the two ships to which reference of the Chief Detective Inspector: has been made had been wholly put the robber away? There are some who will maintain that any ofcered by aliens, with no man who can rob the C.D.I. deserves Britons whatever employed on a reward, rather than Imprison- board. Indeed, to carry the ment; but that, of course, has point further, British vessels nothing to do with the argument! regularly employed on Far Eastern runs, and not touching |
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at United Kingdom ports, could, guaranteed by flying the Red if they so wished, wholly dis- Ensign. To any the least of, it, pense with British personnel, the position is most unsatisfac- except, of course, where they tory. Apart altogether from are passenger-carrying craft, the loss of employment which when they become liable to the existing conditions conditions of passenger licences British marinets, there is a on entering or clearing from much more vital point, namely, British porta. It is true that that in times of emergency it such ships are required to carry might be found that certain certificated officers, but even sections of the British Merchant this definition is none too clear Navy were honeycombed with in the Merchant Shipping Acts, alichs, a contingency which The main point is that aliens could not be lightly viewed. As can charter British ships, wholly the law now atands, this is a man them with non-British very real danger, and there is officers and crews, operate them obvious need for further amend- with foreign capital, and con- ment aiming at complete British tinue to enjoy the protection officering of all. British ships.
cept the treaty, in the framing of which her own delegates have taken an active part. Japan. is in a different case. Since the
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark treaty is none of her making.
"It's very simple. If we can tolerate the Baxters they wil} introduce us to the Ashleys" and wo should be able to meet
the Harringtons through them."
she is most unlikely ever to be- come a signatory. Unofficially, however, she will probably find it to her interest, alike for po- litical and for economic reasons, to abide by the qualitative re- strictions of the new treaty. Whether she will take part in the reciprocal exchange of in- formation on annual program- mes romains to be seen.
OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE Assuming the eventual ad- hesion of, Italy, the new treaty will regulate for a term of years the qualitative development of all the major navies of the world excepting the Japanese, Fur- ther, for as long as it remains. in operation, the exact strength of the naval forces of each signa-^ tory in any given year will be known to all the others, a fact which can hardly fail to allay mistrust and ill-feeling. That a conference which met in face of the most formidable difficul- ties should yet have produced these very substantial results is Hurely an achievement deserving |full: recognition.
Although quantitative limita tlon has not been attained on. paper, it is generally believed that the excessive cost of modern navale material, particularly abroad, will act as an automatic brako on the future expansion: of naval armaments.