Show CAPITAL BEGiNS BEGiNS' MAKING PlANS fOR NAVY NAV MH MEET Washington Gratified by Acceptances of Three S Powers WASHINGTON GT N Oct 16 AP AP- AP Gratification at the tue prompt acceptance accept accept- anco ance ot of C J Japan Jm Franco and Italy of ot tho the invitation to tho the coming naval conference was wils succeeded in official oft om- cia cial Washington today toda by consideration consideration consider consider- of tho steps that must be betaken betaken taken before tho the parley can begin Formal Format acceptances are ure to follow the tho unofficial ones that have been received recel and and then negotiations In Intended Intended In tended to smooth the way for the conference will be undertaken A After tier that will come corne the designation by bythe bythe bythe the I governments of or the Individuals th that t will vIll make mako up their respective v delegations Iran Frances France's e f formal acceptance rma a awaits walts an elaboration of ot tho the principles In Involved Involved involved In- In in tho coming comins conference and It will cause no surprise if Ir It voices several cral Imp important reservations Situ Sim liar hue r qualifications are aro expected from tho the Italian government SUB RESERVATIONS RESERVATION'S In both boUt cases it is 18 expected that these will have havo to do with submarines rines and arid express opposition to the abolition of undersea craft The g governments at nt Paris and anti Rome are known to l feel el that their submarine fleets are I an tin Ji Important part of their coastal defenses s and that to do away with them would necessitate an extensive ex ex- tc sive augmentation of their surface surface Bur Bur- sur sur- face fleets fleet S Th The Tho Italian reply to tho the Invitation dispatched by the tho British foreign office more than a a. week ago was I received yesterday both here and in London Its text for Cor the present isa la is laa a a. carel carefully lly guarded s secret Meanwhile dispatches from om Rome nome described it as ns containing no reser- reser but said bald that the tho Italian government would express Its particular par- par on the questions In- In ln tho the conference at some later time TO DRAW UP TEXT From Paris came word that the text of Frances France's formal acceptance would be be- drawn up some time late this week The Thel French foreign of office of- of flee fice Is proceeding slowly and carefully carefully care care- fully In hi covering the points involved in order that there shall be no room robin for misinterpretations n Japans Japan's informal acceptance was followed at Tokio by tho the necessary action of or obtaining the emperors emperor's formal format approval of at the participation of his government in tho the conference |