Conference on the Limitation of Armament Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROPOSAL OF THE UNITED STATES FOR A LIMITATION OF NAVAL ARMAMENT. PRESENTED WITH THE ADDRESS OF CHARLES E. HUGHES, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STA... more »TES AND AMERICAN DELEGATE. The United States proposes the following plan for a limitation of the naval armament of the conferring nations. The United States believes that this plan safely guards the interests of all concerned. In working out this proposal the United States has been guided by four general principles: (A) The elimination of all capital ship building programs, either actual or projected. (B) Further reduction through the scrapping of certain of the older ships. (C) That regard should be had to the existing naval strength of the conferring powers. f- (D) The use of capital ship tonnage as the measurement of strength for navies and a proportionate allowance of auxiliary combatant craft prescribed. Capital Ships. United States. 1. The United States to scrap all new capital ships now under construction nnd on their way to completion. This includes 6 battle cruisers and 7 battleships on the ways and building and 2 battleships launched. Note.—Paragraph 1 involves a reduction of 15 new capital ships under construction, with a total tonnage when completed of 618,000 tons. Total amount of money already spent on 15 capital ships, 8332,000,000. 2. The United States to scrap all battleships up to, but not including, the Delaware and North Dakota. Note.—The number of old battleships scrapped under paragraph 2 is 15 ; their total tonnage is 227,740 tons. The grand total of capital ships to be scrapped is 30, aggregating 845,740 tons. GREAT BRITAIN. 3. Great Britain to stop further construction of the 4 new Hoods. Note.—Paragraph 3 involves a reduction of 4 new capital ships n...« less