The Japanese made no pr: with regard to the total ton destroyers.
With regard to submarines, the] recommendations deal with ' two types ranging from six hundred to eighteen hundred tons with five-inch guns and an age-limit of thirteen years, The proposed age-limits of warships only apply to vessels of all classes laid down since August 17,] 1823, the date of final ratification of the Washington Tre The American delegation stated that their agreement to the recommendations was conditional upon the decisions being reached with regard to the total tonnage, limitation, age and categories of warships and the methods of providing for their transition from the status quo to} the ultimate status contemplated by the treaty. 7 Later.
'The report of the experts committee states that Britain proposed fifteen cruisers, each of ten thousand tons, with' eight-inch guns, and fifty-five smaller cruisers with inch guns.
No agreement, says the report was reached with regard to cruisers, Rereement was reached with regard to destroyers that the maximum displacement of destroyer leaders be 41,850 tons and destroyers 1,500 tons, with a maximum gun calibre of five-inches and an age-limit sixteen years.
was finally -agreed that the maximum displacement of sul marines be 1,800 tons with a maxi mum gun' eslibre of five inches.
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