British Plan. In its 10,000 words the British Plan, submitted in the form of a draft treaty of 96 articles, proposes: ¶To establish parity in home effectives (soldiers under arms) among France, Germany, Italy and Poland on the basis of 200,000 soldiers each. This would mean doubling the present German Army, cutting down the others. As Colonial powers, France and Italy would have in addition respectively 200,000 and 50,000 "Colonial troops." Russia, as the world's largest country, would have under the British Plan 500,000 troops, representing a cut of 62,000 below present Red Army strength. ¶To limit mobile land guns to a bore of 105 millimetres (4 inches) "for the future"—existing guns up to 155 millimetres (6 inches) to be retained, larger guns scrapped.
¶To limit coast defense guns to 406 millimetres (16 inches), "the size of the largest naval gun."
¶To limit tanks to 16 tons each (largest present tanks weigh 81 tons). ¶To destroy all prohibited armaments within three years after the coming into force of the treaty which would run for five years.
¶To destroy enough military airplanes so that Six Great Powers (France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the U. S.) would stand on a basis of parity with 500 each.*
¶To provide that a breach of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact "is a matter of interest to all parties . . . and . . . that in the event of a breach or the threat of a breach of the Pact there is to be a conference between the parties if any five of them, including one at least of the Great Powers, so request."
¶Totally to prohibit chemical, bacterial and incendiary warfare. Moreover, "bombing from the air would be completely prohibited, except for police purposes in certain outlying regions."
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