News of the Week
The Naval Conference E have written in a leading article about the very ry similar schemes worked out by the United States and Great Britain for determining the strength of categories and allowing a certain amount of transference between smaller ships and larger ships within the chief categories. It remains for these schemes, separately or in union, to come into contact with the French principle of _global tonnage for whole fleets, though, of course, the French principle in its latest form also provides for transference. It is said that the Americans in bringing forward the unexpected proposal that they should be allowed to build a ' Rodney ' type of ship thought that this proposal might be pleasing to Great Britain, but we suspect that they really had their eyeon'the Senate_where the Navy party is, strongly entrenched.
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