Denunciation

The first successful agreement to limit armaments on a world scale is the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, an historic monument to Charles Evans Hughes. Last week the Japanese Government, as all the world had long expected it to do, filed its denunciation of that pact. Two years hence, on Dec. 31, 1936, the Washington Naval Treaty and its supplementary London Naval Treaty go into limbo.

In San Pedro, night before the Japanese denunciation, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commanding the U. S. Fleet, announced from his flagship U. S. S. Pennsylvania grand maneuvers next spring in the Northern Pacific by 177 war boats and 447 war planes over 5,000,000 sq. mi. of strategic seaways. Exulted the 100% American Los Angeles Times: "A vast armada, the largest and most powerful by a wide margin ever assembled under a single command in the world's naval history!"

The State Department was reported "displeased" by Admiral Reeves's impetuosity. Aboard his flagship last week, Japan's slim Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sankiti Takahashi remained mouse-mum.

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