Show NAVY BUILDING RACE THREATENS Parley Reaches i i Crisis as Japan tt Fails F ails to yieldS Yield J U. U S. S Expected to Seek Agreement WIth Britain in Effo Effort t to Escape r Costly Costly Sea Programs u r urBy c. c U 3 I HAROLD BRAMAN 1 By P. P r I. I LONDON Nov 24 AP AP The AP-The The threat of a limitless naval navaL I ai building race between the three great rulers of the theseas seas seah hung ng today over the trip ower conversations as hope was virtually t t abandoned for a compromise on Japans Japan's demand for far na l parity Already deadlocked the negotiations between between- the he United States Japan and Great Britain reached a crisis yesterday yesterday yes yes- when the British sided w with America in declining to re recognize Nippon's demands for outright equality Of Officially Official l lIy l- l ly Iy however the conversations are continuing until next w week k at least In the event the present naval limitations limi- limi treaty is junked the the United States probably will seek an informal accord with Great Brit Britain ln on a a general gen gen general era eral I naval policy in ord order r to prevent a 1 naval building race between the two powers it was learned authoritatively authoritatively today Such an informal accord probably would include undertakings kings to keep each fully advised of 01 the ti-ic others other's building program as well a. a as aan an agreement agreement agree atre ment to tomake make mak both fleets fleet comple Discussions in Abeyance It t was stated however thai thal no no discussions on on- on onU U this i matter h have ve aa a yet taken place and it was expected there here would be none until it would w uld b be evi evident ent there ere was was no fu further ther hope bope of reaching a compromise compromis on a 3 naval treat treaty It was ted In British di circled a that it was wao unlikely Britain would sign Ign any agreement to make an alliance alliance alli alit ance either with the United States State or Japan because it desires the llie friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship of ot both Asked whether Stanley Baldwins Baldwin's speech at Glasgow might b be Interpreted interpreted inter Inter- as s a hint that Britain would like a naval understanding with the United States an official spokesman said Baldwin was merely reiterating a traditional policy known freedom as of the sea Under this policy it was stated Britain always seeks full information about American fleet activities in c case se of an emergency arising anywhere in the world where the American fleet Cleet also would have an interest Norman H. H Davis American delegate dele dee delegate gate aate- and Sir John Simon Simon- British foreign secretary spent yesterday playing golf and d discussing cussing the troubled troubled trou trou- bled situation British Maintain Hope The British expressed themselves as still stin hopeful that some sort of a compromise could be be reached and Admiral Isoroku Japa Japanese ese delegate hinted in a press interview l last t night that he would make a conciliatory conciliator move at a meeting next week between the British and AI Amen Ameri i- i cans The Japanese admiral made mad it Jt clear however that any new proposal would be based on the principle Q of 1 actual tonnage equality and the Americans continued resolute in their insistence on a navy sufficiently l larger to divide between two vo oceans So greatly at loggerheads were the he two views that the Americans Dav Davis and Admiral William H. H Standley indicated indicated indicated in in- in they expected to return home by Christmas Th The expected breakdown could rc- rc on Pare Para Two NAVY BUILDING RACE FEARED Failure of Japanese to Yield Threatens London Parley Continued Scorn from Pate Pase One suit in a mere postponement of until chances of or an agreement agree agree- ment nent improve or an competitive competitive com corn naval building race The Americans anticipate that Todo's Todos Tokio's To- To dos do's official denunciation of the Washington naval treaties repeatedly forecast by Nippon would be made soon The conversations between the three great sea powers were undertaken Under tinder taken aken with a view to continued limitation limitation limita limita- tion of their navies on the expiration of the Washington and London Leudon don trea trea- lues tics Ics in irs 1935 Under these treaties undertaken undertaken un un- in m 1922 the United States and Great Britain are Ire permitted equal sea power with Japan allowed fewer ships in the ratio of 5 In Itt an address in Philadelphia Hiroshi Saito Japanese ambassador to the United States reiterated that |