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Show B0II.il FAVORS PLAN TO AVOID NAVAL CONTEST U. S. Program for Supremacy Revives Fear of Great Armamenl Expenses laj.N Lii iN. I, . J8. Calls' for the I United states. Great Britain and Japan j to curtail naval eicnse by mutual1 agreement were featured "v ' number' of London newspapers this morning. In following this course the Journals g,- expression to the anxiety which I has prevailed here since the receipt' of reports of the new American naval progrum, an anxiety which may he' traced lo the assumption tbr.t if Ihe; United States bulld;i a big n.H v, Oreutl Uritaln must do likewise. s M i l ns Mill VDSIUP. Thi Mqrnlng Host lumente iiiat) American politicians hiive cnosen a moment wnen the wartime fellowship of the Americas and Brlsh navies ami the "chivalrous courtesy of Amerl-j can seamen," have united the naval' s, rvlces of the iwo nations "to declare' In effect, that , the British navy la ai potential menace to America." The Post contends that "the cou-l elusion t.i a working arrangement between be-tween Ho I "tilled Stale.., and Cleat Britain would do more to establish and I niululnlii the peace of the woi Id than! anj other plan conceivable," and itrges' ih i th recent utteranpee of Senator' iiorah and other Americans entourage the belief that Mucit an arrangement is possible i.ci i M i i WELCOMED Anoiln r pled for an agreement between be-tween the United stales, Japan and Great Britain is voiced by tne Daily News which urged that the Interval between the present moment and the Inaujrui ntion of l'i e-lden:-, leel Hard-ling Hard-ling should be ultillged by the states-' men of the three countries to educate 'the public The EC xp rose maintains that an lagreement between the three countries "Would assure ' prosperity as well as j pence." ,i il-s DESIRE I I i i TOKIO, Dec. 28. (Hy the Associated Associat-ed Press.) The J1.H Bhlmpo, which has been one of the strongest supporters support-ers of the government's naval pro- l.roxi o.t-u ltn Dinl It I I, ..nl,l consents to arrest the race for naval supremacy there is no reason Why Japan's plan for eight battleships, eight battle. cruisers and 120 submarines to be completed by 1925 ! should 'tot he modified. The newspaper calls on the Japan-1 cse government to lake the Initiative and points out that the current expenditure ex-penditure for education in less than one-t.-nth of the expenditure for armaments. |