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Show GENERAL SAYS WORLD STRAiN I IS TOO GREAT I Time is Rinc for Free Discussion Discus-sion of Disarmament. House is Told MASSES, NOT CABINETS. ARE VITALLY AFFECTED Secretary Danieis Gives Information In-formation on Relative Strength of Navies VTAAHXNOTOM Ida. 1?. Should tin l iiire.i s-.itci call upon tho nation-i of the world for ' a full, free and full-discussion full-discussion of reduction of armaments. he taTOrebte irn;onse would bo Tirompt and . it ihle." the house na-01 na-01 was told today by Clcn- TaSkuT 11. BIlSS, former Amerl-representatlvt Amerl-representatlvt on the supreme war 'Tin nation that would coma to such a conference and refuse to agree iy proposition looking to disarm- reduction of Its - military establishment." said General 111 Iks, "couKI he written down as tho next Germany and the Fntted States could make its plans accordingly." Oeheral led Secretar Daniels who appeared :galn to give tin committee detailed Information regarding Chi relative naval strength 1 of the ereat powers. H i sTAXD STB M. "Our prexent form of civilisation nnot stand the gnat strain of mill-l mill-l :.tion longer," Geo- eral miss declared. "The world wSi was a terrific Strain on ruiliratlon v i t'f very much j General lliss said he bed discussed I disarmament "in n general way" and ; incident to other matters with Mai j shal Foch and high I'.rltlsh milit.u. leaders. "Old you ever talk it over with any 'of Japan' or Italy's officials?" asked , Chairman Tiutler. H "I believe I did with Italian repra-I repra-I aeatattves" was tho reply. "Of coui-k H I tho subject only came up at that Mmc I incidentally. K WORLD PAC1 if It fere left to me I would no disarm an American soldier, nor lay up an American ship unt!l all tho great powers had reached an agree-i agree-i declared the general. "if such a conference were to be and If secretary were to make puhll ; every day an abftract of B the in-oposi: ions put forward ind tho ' arguments for and against vlth the H ! names of lhe national representative who nttde them, the common people of tut v. orld Vould not allow the con-' con-' ference to dissolve ur.t'.l at least the first step forward had beoS taken. I , , !-.ai the cabinets Of the world think, the masses of the people, n ho ihv the taxua have the 1 vital Interest lbe subjert." I WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 Secrc-tarj- Oanlels today laid before tho liouse naval affairs committee what he described as approximately complete data op ti e iclatlvo seapower of tho three pxtbclpal naval powers, reji'icsi-ed reji'icsi-ed by the committee in connection with tho consideration of Its question of international disarmament. In ap-pea ap-pea ring before the committee yestei - Ja. tho naal secretary eprcwo.l the opinion that nu lime would be more propitious than the present for a movement toward limitation of naval armaments. B Tables submitted by the secret a i pVJ show that whilo the present effective IBVI fighting sfremjth of the lirltlsh navy pAVJ includes f3 ships of 1.588.442 tons a- compared with ships of 779.193 tons, for tho American navy, comple- HAH Uon of the uulhorlxed building pro- KVJ grun of this country in IfSE will kiv KSJ It a tonnago superorlty In the ratio of 1.35 to one, with approximately an J Sana number of ships. BBVJ pERIOlUOn .el ii ' I i Whllo the present strength ot the KVJ Amcrlran Davy was nhown to bo moro than double that of Japan, should the BH latter oountrj oo nip lets its projected IBml pronim for 1927. In uddltlon to con-structlon con-structlon already authorized, and this country terminate construction with Its present program. Its naval supert-orlty supert-orlty over Japan In that year, it was huwn would be reduced to a ratio of to Jn major ships and gun power the Amerbjxn navy at the completion of Its present program will have an sc-lual sc-lual superiority over tho Ltritlsh fleet. Sevr-t.-r' Oanleli said In discussing the figures hut "it will be consider-ably consider-ably weak-r," he added, In point of light cruisers and other ships needed to protect the main fleet and to carry out blockading and other strategical operations. FEWER 61 DM UUJi I 9 ' We will be slightly Inferior in sub-marines sub-marines and will have no modern air-craft air-craft curriers suftablo for operating with the fleet," the secretary said. The data submitted by the were-tarv were-tarv showed with tho Viompletion of all present authorised building the fective battleship strength of the Urit-ish Urit-ish aavj will bs twenty-six ships. SJp-Krcgatlng SJp-Krcgatlng 635.650 tons; American navy 27 ships, aggregating 857.650 tons; Ja-panese Ja-panese hav)'. UlttS bhlps. 290.370 tOOS Tlie battle cruiser fbrures will be: Greut Britain 6 : aKgregatlng 17 5.40U tons; United States 6; 261.000 tons: and Japan 8: 270,000 tons. i IPAN1 SI PR IGB M If Japan's projected program foi (OMttnOOd on lge two.) 198 General Says World j Strain !s Too Great (Continued From Pago One.) IOL'7 Is authorized, however, Jt will! raise her battleship strength In that year, according to the figures, to thirteen thir-teen ships, aggregating 439.720 tons, and Increase her prospective superior, lty oer tho American navy in battle' cruisers, giving her twelve ships of that class .aggregating -430.000 tons. This program already has been approved ap-proved by the Japanese government. Secretary Daniels told tho committee, but there has yet been no approprla- lions for It Secretary Daniels declared one of, the most serious shortcomings of the merlcan navy at tho present time' was Its total lack of speedy aircraft, carriers. |