WASHINGTON TREATIES
APPROVAL IN ENGLAND.
A UNANIMOUS HOUSE.
(By Cable.—Frees Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 *.m.) LONDON, July 7. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery, in the House of Commons, moving the second reading of the Washington Treaties Bill, explained that its object was to give the Government legal powers to carry out certain provisions of the two naval treaties. Col. Amery thought there should not be any hesitation in showing that the Eng-lish Parliament was entirely behind this great pact. Mr. Asquith said he would have welcomed an agreement to abolish submarine warfare altogether. It was time we had similar agreements regarding land armaments and men. Col. Amery said he still hoped that the Powers outside the five signatories would come into line. The bill was read a second time unanimously.—(A. and N.Z. Cable. 11
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1922, Page 7
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