Tokyo, June 29.
Adraieal Okada, the Minister of the Navy, to-day expressed hig views ea jestion of capital ships as follow thi eller for the three:
Powers to reach an agreement regarding t ship problem jatter a decision has been arriv og regards the question of auxiliary Teasela Ties maybe rather dll cult for them to do but if the ors concerned desire to contri-flute to world peace through the present conference, both Britain and America, which have each the has fof argument economical make concession fitting!
Jconfident that there is enough room for settlement, take a favourable view of the British proposal to reduce the ton wage of future battleships to someing under 30,000 tons and their sues to 13.5 inch, for such a strength capital ships is nearly the same as those of other naval Powers such as France, capital ships their xuns will reduce the expendi ture on the construction of battle shipw and of the manufacture of munitions and will naturally lighten the burden of the peoples.
But as to the limitation of the calibre of gins if the Powers adopt new style of guns, it would be accompanied by various ineanveniences in the manufacture of uns and in other respects, so I think it is the moat convenient thing to adopt the 14 inch guns which the Powers are
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