Show UNITED STATES TOG To Go 0 LIMiT II M IT IN INN NAVY A VY GUT CUT Ambassador Gibson Gives Gi Coolidge View View-s at Arms Parley Gl GlE E Tunc fly O.- O. The A ill Iii the size of oC battle battle- battleships ships or of the future the lile pr of tons bus to under tons bus was 5 recoil recoil- b by C. C Bridge Bridge- man lusH first lord of the lie nit ally Great BritaIn athe c lit iii the trl na al on ference ii been set set- tied lIeu hy by the con con- ference lr el limitation of of- the ii fr- fr carriers to tots tons dk- dk Instead o of I of guns gun on from eight to 0 tosh sir sh and reduction of suits suit's Oil on battleships IG 86 Inches to 13 GENEVA June By O.- O. y The Associated I of the 5 3 principle or of naval al strength of cruisers destroy cr crand and submarines ot of the he United States Great Britain and Japan was isas proposed today to the three three- power naval na limitation conference by the American d Opening the conference called by President Coolidge Ambassador dor Hugh Gibson the chairman proposed that cruisers be limited to tonnage of or tons tons' tons for the United States and Great Britain and to or tons for Japan Destroyer total tonnage would be restricted to or iO- iO tons for the two larger pow pow- powers ers era and to to for Cor Japan Maximum tonnage for tor American and British submarines would be e to tons tOM with to 6 1000 tons fixed for Cor Japan Gibson presented his proposal after a brief address In in which he presented an expression ot of gratitude to the powers from President Coolidge and declared that the United States Is pre pre- prepared prepared pared to accept n a general pro pro- grom providing for as low Jow a a. total tonnage as acceptable to the theother theother other powers 1 lie He expressed regret that France and Italy were not active participants pants in the conference and urged Japan and Great Britain who with the United States are th powers which now lead In naval 1111 armaments to assume all re- re for initiating Initialing further fu navel limitation lf It we are not prepared to limit he said we could not expect others to do so G OUTLOOK It was understood that under th the Gibson proposal the United States will ill be obliged to scrap ap ap- approximately proximately tons ot of cruisers cruis- cruis cruisers ers and dest mostly ot of the latter class and tons addi- addi additional additional upon completion of cruisers now building Old ships virtuallY obsolete ot of which the AmerIcan navy has hal many would be scrapped to tomake make mak room for Cor the new v ones Un Un- Under Under der the plan It was expected that Great Britain It if she completes her present building pr gram would scrap approximately tons of cruisers and Japan tons neither Japan nor Great Britain would be required to scrap submarines under the proposal the United States would have an excess ot of about tons of sub sub- submersibles to be scrapped |