JAPAN WILLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 7

JAPAN WILLING.

NOT AIMING AT WAIL Prepared to Discuss Dinrai' ment Anywhere. FftEMEB'S DECLAKATIOJT. : By Cab!*..—Press Association. —Copyright. J LOXDOX, February IT. A dispatch from Tokio slates th«t the Prime Minister of Japan. Mr. Wakatsuki, granted an exclusive interview on the subject to a representative of the Associated Press. Mr. Wakatsuki said his Government was strongly in favour of Mr. Coolidge's proposals for a reduction,in naval armament*. The Cabinet was not hesitating about whether to accept his invitation to a conferencc. hut it was simply studying the American memorandum for the purpose of forwarding to Washington a properly worded reply. "Our attitude in this matter of disarmament is not ambiguous nor cloaked in diplomatic technicalities," said the Prime Minister. "We ut ready to discuss disarmament a t any fair and equitable confcrcnoe in any placc in the world. "Japan is not now, nor has the boon, arming for war with any country in the world. The figures regarding the strength of our army and our navy are open to anyone.'"

Britain Awaits Dominion Views.

The diplomatic correspondent of lb* "Daily Telegraph" wys the British Government's formal reply to the President of the United States. Mr. Calvin Cool« idge. regarding t v c suggested confer*nc* on the further limitation of naval ansa* ments will not be sent until the views of the Governments of the Dominioat have been received in London.