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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7

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AT ARMS CONFERENCE " Work Of Almost Superhuman Subtlety." I i ■ ■ JAPAN SUPPORTS BRITAIN. ißy Cable—Press Association.— CopjriebU GENEVA. .Tune 2S. I •There i« no deadlock," -was s remark used yesterday at different time? by Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (Britain t. Mr. H. Gibson (America) and Admiral Saito (Japan) regarding proceedmjr* at the Arms Conference. Tonight* gossip suggests that Admiral Saito has been newly instructed to support Britain's plea for the extenj sion of limitations to capita! ships as a I definite mean? of lessening tajcatioa. Earl .Tellicoe and Admirals Field and Lgerton attended a meeting this afternoon, us a result of which a full agreement was reached on the question of excluding from the terms of a disarmament limitations treaty aU craft under 600 ton*, on condition that they carrv no more than four 6in runs and have no j higher speed than 20 knots. j Today Admiral Saito said the British j proposals unexpectedly embraced import- | suit proportions relating to capital ships, jHe added: "We do not complain. We ; are ready to consider any suggestion for a reduction of naval commitment* whenever and by whomsoever thev are made, hut this new question will necessitate us- ol.Jaining instructions from Tokyo. ** i h«- mam oue>uon for the present conference, namely, the apportionment j of the whole range of auxiliary ships. scouts, protector.- and destroyers of j con)merer, raiders, mine-layers* transport!:, munitions supply ships end everv kind of Mil>monne. is a work of almost superhuman subtlety. But the human mind, inspired by lote and goodwill, can sort out the tangle." On being closely questioned. Viscount j I'hii Naid th«> matter of the ratio of the J thrt-e I'oweri-' cruisers had not vet been j discussed. * I '"We do not ihiiik the ratio which ha* j t-een applied to capital ships ought '■ necess.inly to be extended lo other vessel-."' he said "Japan intends to ask that her strength in cruisers shall . be based on her own requirement*."' I Viscount Ishii added that Japan had j no intention of proposing any separate I security treaty, or naval bases in the I Pacific. "'lt is outside our instructions. j and we have no proposition to make on that point," he said- ! It is understood that these clear declnr&tiens of Japanese views must be most unwdcome to the United States. as American writers have made no secret of their desire to enlist Japan's aid in opposing Britain's capital ships proposal