IMPERIAL CONFERENCE AND NAVAL DEFENCE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7764, 5 August 1921, Page 3

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE AND NAVAL DEFENCE

FULL TEXT OF RESOLUTION. (By Cabje—Press Association Copyright.) Rec, August 5, 9.40 a.m. London, August 4. The naval defence resolution passed bv the Imperial Confeienc? reads;- That while recognising thenecessity for co-operation among the various portions of the Empire to provide such naval defence as may prove to be essential to security, and while holding that equality with the naval strength ot any other Power as a minimum suggested for that purpose, this conference is of the opinion that the method and extent of such co-operation arematters for the final determination of the several Parliaments concerned and any such recommendations thereon should be deferred until after the coming conference on disarmament. The substance of this resolution has already been communicated, but the text was only disclosed today. Comment in America says the resolution would be regarded in future years as an important landmark alike in the history of Britisn naval policy and the development of Imperial co-operation. It- dealt with the course of developments of the future and did not directly affect the policy of the Admiralty or average development. The Ptime Ministers had to keep in view not only the great problems of naval strategy, which had to be consider-_ ed by themselves, but the constitutional issues involved in Imperial co-operation, and the still wider issues of international relations.