23 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 11

But it was not only of Great Britain that sacrifices

were demandedi and both the United States -and. Japan are carrying out their share of the agreement. The former power, which possessed a potential supremacy of the seas owing to her unchallenged financial position, is now breaking up on her stocks eleven - of the most powerful capital ships ever designed. The Washington Conference may not have achieved all that its promoters hoped, but it has anyhow reduced the world's battle fleets by 50 per cent. * * * *