LIMITATION OF NAVIES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19032, 21 June 1927, Page 11

LIMITATION OF NAVIES.

* COOLIDGE'S CONFERS ENCE. OPENING AT GENEVA. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIBELESS) RUGBY, June *L9. The three-Power conference on naval limitation opens at Geneva to-morrow, and its proceedings are awaited hero with great interest. The Et. Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, is the chief British delegate, and he mil be attended by naval experts of Australia, Canada, and New Zoaland. ' Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe represents the latter Dominion, and Mr Hugh Gibson and Admiral Saito head respectively the American and Japanese delegations. France and Italy, who took part in the Washington Conference of 1921, will be represented at this conference only by an informateur and observer respectively. While the Washington Conference, dealt only with capital ships the present conference will discuss every class of naval craft. The newspapers here generally reiterate the opinions which were expressed when President Coolidge proposed this new naval conference. Those may be summed up in a statement that with a scattered Empire, which cannot be supplied even with bare subsistence unless trade routes are kept open, the problem confronting Great Britain is infinitely more complex than that of any other member of the conference.