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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1937.

The China Mail

Ninety-Second Year of Publication

Wyndham Street, Hong Kong

Telephone 20022.

London Office:

war

not be allowed to fall is that an be attained by mer- liners. The fundamental navies is to police the seas. Consequently, there must be police vessels fast enough to overtake and heavily-armed enough to destroy the largest armed merchantmen. This stan- Garrick Street, London, W.C.2.dard could be achieved, it was

Notice To Contributors.

argued, even if ships of All communications intended for were limited to, say, 10,000 tons. publication should be addressed to Before the treaty had been for- proved the the Edit and be accompanied by mulated Britain

Name and Address, sincerity of her proposals by ac- for insertion but tually investing in ships of of good faith.

smaller size than was demanded by the expiring treaty. After the signature of the treaty, but before Japan had indicated her decision about the size of the guns she proposed to instal in any new capital ships, Britain laid down two ships which are to conform with the still unconfirm- ed limits the treaty sets.

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MARRIAGE

The mar ge of Mr.

Augusto

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The saving that would be Antonio dos Remedios, son of Mr. achieved by a substantial quali- limitation would be. M. A. dos Remedios, to Miss Eleo-tative

daughter of enormous in the next few years, nor · María Xav Mrs. Julia María Xavier, will take when every naval Power intends lay, 7th April, to undertake large building pro- place on Wedne 1937

Rosary grammes. The cost that will be at p.m., at the

to the building Pro- Church, Kowloon to be followed added

by a Reception at Mr. M. A. doa grammes if the treaty fails, as Remedios residence, No. 8 Tung it seems it will do, and competi- Cheong

Building, Kowloon. No tion in the building of new types

all begins, will be enormous too. cards are being issued but friends are cordially invited.

ANNOUNCEMENT

new

Under the treaty, one Power could try to build a larger navy than another, but competition în types was minimised. It competition of this kind The marriage arranged between was Mr. Robert Leslie Shepherd Webb which added so greatly to the and Miss Evelyn Winifred O'Ha- cost of navies in the years im- gan will take place on Wednesday, mediately before the war. It' may 14th April, 1987. No invitations was then possible, and it are being issued but all friends now be again, to create a new will be welcome at a Reception to type (the Dreadnought was an be held afterwards at the Roof example) which rendered whole Garden, Hong Kong Hotel, 5 p.m. squadrons obsolescent. A simi- lar disaster would be experienced to-day if, for example, a Power not bound by treaty decided to build fast heavy cruisers within the "zone of non-construction". laid down in the treaty. This [zone

8,000 to extends from 17,500 tons. If it was invaded No official announcement has the value of the standard 10,000 yet been made by the Japanese ton cruiser of the County class Government regarding her deci- as on the China Station, could be sion on the limitation of gun reduced greatly, and a whole fact of new field of naval expenditure calibres, but the mere

April could be opened up. governmental silence, with

Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 30, 1937,

JAPAN'S OMINOUS

DECISION

uns are

There are few breaks in these 1 set as the final date for adher- ence to the tentative agreement clouds. If this latest effort to reached under the new London wards naval limitation fails the Naval Treaty, may reasonably belonly restriction will be that set each nation's purse. And interpreted as confirming recent by hints. Efforts to impose, or why Japan should seek to test rather secure acceptance of, her power of purse in competi- in naval tion with Britain and the United some measure of control in rearmament are about to receive States is past understanding. existence of the a further blow. Gun calibres are Surely the only one of the disturbing fac-Singapore Base with its (re- tors: Japan's attitude means puted) 16-inch siege that she will not adhere to the not the cause? other provisions of the treaty Whatever it is, it can be hoped which, inter alia, limit the dis-that, knowing the consequences, placement of capital ships to no Power, whether a signatory 35,000 tons and cruisers to 8,000 of the treaty or not, will be so tons and 6.1 inch guns.

reckless as to build outside the Where the trouble lies is in treaty limits and create a ship the ominous safeguarding clause of a new class that will be dan- which provides that a contract gerous to the present stan- be ing party may be released from dards. Some comfort ...... can its provisions should a Power not derived from the reflection thát a party to the treaty build ves-the immediate cause of the sels not in conformity with the Japanese withdrawal from the limits. Even the restrictions set naval conference was not a dif- down in the treaty represent a ference of opinion about the defeat of the original British qualitative limitations proposed, proposals to the conference of but the rejection of Japan's pro- the Powers called in December, posal that a common upper limit 1935. Britam then suggested, be adopted, that is to say, that for example, that capital ships the principle of Japanese parity be limited to 25,000 tons and with the greater naval Powers their guns to 12in. calibre. Some be conceded. It was a question British naval officers, considered of prestige and the same enare that even these limits were too and delusion must be held ac- high. It was pointed out that countable for her new adventure the measure below which the into wayward challenge to power and speed of rships form of restraint.

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