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ARGUMENTS FOR THE LIMITATION OF SHIPS OF WAR.

WHY GREAT BRITAIN IS IN A POSITION TO DECIDE THE ISSUE.

The fate of the so-called capital ship is being argued up and down once more at Geneva.

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proving that there is any reason why a nation should retain vessels of this site and com except the fact What is a capital ship? Properly that other nations have them. If speaking, it is the large type of all nations abandon them. altoge vessel afont. It can be of any su,ther, that argument, of course, falls provided the other types afloat are smaller. Actual tonnage hins nothing to do with is To-day the torm is commonly used of any vessel larger than the cruiser class, which by the Washington Treaty is limited to 10,000 tons.

Does anyone need capital ships Germany is forbidden to maintain any, under the classes in the Treaty Versailles, which out to

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The real fact that the capital ship of to-day simply, represents the peakpoint of competitive building.

The three or four nations with considerable fleets set out a genera. tion ago to outdo each other all the time, and the tonnage of the single unit grew and grow. The Dread nought was the wonder of the gaya! world twenty-five years ago. It› take her incapable of aggression in tonnage was 17,900, just over hali the future. The view is gaining that of the capital ship of today. ground to-day--and it marks al Thus was the peak-point at that

time. considerable advance that all nu- tions ought so far as possible to bo made incapable of aggression, and that the weapons specially designed for aggressive action should be prohibited. Sir John Simon has strongly supported that doctrine in principle on behalf of the British Government.

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¦ But building weht on and on tili we got to the Hood of 42,000. Big- ger ships still, of 50,000, were being planned when the Washington Cou ference shut down the ruinous com. petition once for all by drawing the line finally a 38,000.

TONNAGE MERITS. But whas are aggressive weapons?

But there is obviously no merit in And is the capital ship one of

If there were the Bri- thera The men who framed the 35,000 tons. Dominion Day (Canada): Bank naval clauses of the Tray of tish Government would not be will

Versailles evidently thought and ing to drop to. 25,000. Holiday.

1s there any

More merit Whist Drive (H.M9. Tumar) 6.45 they were no foola. The Italian

Government thinks so for it has an 93,000 than in

35,000, or that would have Motor Vehicle Licences due for proposed the total abolition of in the 42,000

capital ships and submarines to ruled if Hoods had become the renewal,

gether-unt the one without the fashion, or in the 50,000 that would other. France has set apart capital, have become general if the super- ships for special treatment. Great Hoods had aver been built? Britain has proposed the abolition

Now that the principle has been of whmarines, hit said nothing definitely accepted, as it has been, conclusive abous capital ships of setting the same limit of size, for everyone it makes no difference

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CASE FOR ABOLITION.

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essential work they exist for--deal with the fastest and best armed merchant vessels (which can carry nothing heavier than

·B-in. guns) and keep the sea in any weather And for as long, as is ever likely to be necessary.

A certain speed, a certain fuel. The case for abolishing altogether capacity and a certain seaworthiness the capital ship-any vessel of over are obviously required, but so vie 10,000 Lons-rests partly on the bas evey questioned the qualities of enormous rest of these vast engines a 10,000-ton vessel, whether it be of war-the original bill for each cruiser or a sail battleship such of them is about £7,000,000 and thej as the Germans are building in all average annual maintenance east these respects. £400,000--partly on the difficulty is i "Continued on Page 2)

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