| Show 1 PROGRAM WILL GIVE AMERICA NAVAL PARITY Treaty y Ratio of 53 5 With JaI Japan Ja Ja- I pan Will Not Be Established I lishe However Dy By JOSEPH II n. n BAIRD 0 United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON A Aug g. g 4 C 4 Comple 4 mple Won tion of ot the United States Slates navys navy's shipbuilding shipbuilding ship building program will establish a virtual vir virtual vir-I vir vir- vir parity between the American and andl British navies but will fall fail to give this country its treaty preponderance of ot about 5 to 3 over the Japanese navy special tables prepared by the thc navy department showed today The tables table showed the indicated ton naves nages of ot the three fleets in 1936 when the London and Washington naval treaties expire Under these treaties America ma may add tons to its navy above the present building program Britain BriWn may increase ase its its' fleet teet by tons Japan apan h having vinc built more rapidly will Wll have only tons of ot treaty tonnage ton nage nags left after atter completion of off i its recently recently re reo re- re announced building program That tons is in the heavy cruiser category Presumably it cannot be bc used as tons are required d for this class of oC ship 0 On the basis of present building programs pro pro- grams America would be vastly superior superior supe supe- to Japan in battleships aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers when the pie e naval treaties expire in 1936 But it buld be inferior in light cruisers de de- and submarines Hence American naval circles favor a large 1 building program in these latter cate cate- gories Q ALLOTTED Under the Washington treaty limiting lim Hm battleships and aircraft carriers aAd and the London Landon treaty defining cruiser destroyer and submarine a the following total tonnages were re allotted United States Great Great Britain Japan U If no further building programs are arc Undertaken the strength of the three navies in 1936 allowing for replacement replacement replace replace- ment ships laid down before 1936 to tobe tobe tobe be completed in 39 38 would be Tons United States Great Britain Japan The Japanese excess of treaty allotment allot anent ment i f accounted for by replacement of ships which will be laid down but not completed before the expiration of the treaty To achieve its full treaty tonnage before 1936 the United States must build One aircraft carrier of tons Fourteen light cruisers total to tons Five heavy destroyers total tons Sixty light destroyers total tons to ns Thirty submarines total t tons ns BOLD HOLD INTEREST Particular interest is attached In naval circles to the two aircraft carriers car car- Tiers in the list of ships for which bids were let yesterday They will willbe bo be beof of OOOO tons ton each and entirely ne neIn new In In design The navy frequently has has' altered Its fd ideas as of ol aircraft carrier construction The first two carriers built after aeter the war war aside from the experimental craft Langley were the Lexington and Saratoga They were monsters of of tons each Their size was dictated by the fact that they were converted battle cruisers Next the navy turned to the tons size Inthe in inthe the the Ranger Now a a. ton type has has been been adopted The two new ships despite their smaller size sire wilL carry as many planes as the Lexington or or Saratoga Japan although it has a formidable naval air force appears to fear aircraft air craft carriers In its disarmament plan recently pr presented at Geneva it 11 suggested their ab abolition The American building program will give the United States navy five carriers of tons totaL Japan which favors a smaller type of ot carrier will villI have six totaling tons In effective naval airplanes accordIng accordIng accord- accord Ing to league of nations' nations definitions Japan Tapan has SOl SOI the United States navy 1 I |
