Show CHANGE PRESIDENT IS OPPOSED 11 TO ELEVATION OF GUNS ON battleships secretary hughs hughes tell he house N naval k affairs affair committee japan takes take me more liberal via view Washington Secretary hughes hughea I 1 in letter aletter read to the house houe naval earn corn an tee took the position that elevation of guns gana an m american capital capita ship would wold not at violate the A anna treaty ty although it might have the unfortunate from note effect of tending to pro mote naval d competition the letter also recited cited that while great britian had taken the vim view that the alterations proposed would old be me a violation of the treaty jap japan an took the opposite position mr hughes wrote the committee in as response to a resolution making asking whether a any m y protests pro teata against the elevation eley atey E program J had been made do by foreign freleig powers the T a british sit ambassador noo loca he said on cam march 15 1923 had bad brought up the subject stable t earnest ly appealing to the tote state department against any alteration of the present gun bun elevations eleva tiona and giving positive that no be such alt alterations orations b had d been made on ch any british capital ship after at its commission the british view the secretary said was that the changes proposed an american ships would constitute me ma jor jet alterations prohibited by the treaty mer hughes hughea agreed with th the japanese op opinion th that e t they should b bs regarded rather se as minor alterations n not t violating the treaty but doat he added adde that he be realized they might tend toward a revival of competition out 0 of f harmony with the well ajtal astal lashed position of the united states |