Washington, July 23.
OW Anferican naval bases in the Pacific, some of them a mere stone's throw from the shores of Japan' in these days of aerial annihilation of distance, may be the price set by the United States upon naval parity for Japan, Tt was learned in authoritative quarters to-day that such demands have been unofficially suggested to the United States Government as a counter to Japan's insistent demand for fleet equality, Among the locations for such fortified bases proposed by proponents of the policy is Dutch Harbour, Alaska, which is only 700 miles from the mainland of Asia.
Tt was recalled here that the United "States agreed, under the rms of the Washington Treaty, to all Pacific naval base velopments, subject to Japan's 2¢- ceptance of the ratio system which gives the United States and Great Britain tive capital ships to each th ree for Japan.
The belief that the United States mi ay advance such a counter demand it Japan persists in pressing her parity policy at the 1985 Naval Conference is strongly supported by cir-in the view of These authorities point to the Navy Department's aerial and_sub-me expeditions to Dutch Harbour and the Army's flight to Alaska, now in progress, and to the prospect that the United States Fleet will conduct its 1995 in Alaskan waters as st trows giving an unmistakable ication of the direction in which the wind now sets—United Press.
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