Show BRITISH NT STRIP U S DELEGATES ISSUE ULTIMATUM THAT AMERICA WILL NEVER AGREE TO IMPAIR DEFENSE wide difference in three proposals proposal indicate deadlock japan explains intentions geneva switzerland never will the united states be forced into building small size cruisers unsuitable tor for the needs of 0 her national defense that it is understood Is the answer which the american delegates will make to the british proposal at the tripartite naval conference tor for the een eventual abolition of 0 the ton cruisers authorized by the washington parleys the close ot of the second day ot of the conference has permitted the exports experts to reaffirm their earlier judgment that the three plans presented the amerlean american british and japanese are so divergent as to be utterly irreconcilable and are certain to make a treaty impossible unless someone recedes from his original position admiral salto saito however in a statement in which he the purport 0 of the japanese proposals threw an entirely new light on some of to kios intentions and justified the belief of 0 the american delegation that an agreement would be more possible on a basis ol of the japanese plan than the british Dr tish saito made is clear that in americas future cruiser building program she could under the japanese project scrap some ot of the numerous american and put the tonnage thus saved into cruisers |