NAVAL AGREEMENT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 288, 5 September 1928, Page 10

NAVAL AGREEMENT

OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE MISUNDERSTOOD BY OTHER POWERS “DISAGREEABLE RESULTS OF HUSH-HUSH POLICY” (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. September 4, 10.15 p.m.) Paris, September 4. The “Daily Express” correspondent at Toulon, describing the AngloFrench naval agreement at present as both a muddle aud a mystery, says: “America believes the French and British navies have virtually become one and will be pooled, so that Britain can command the Atlantic, in return for special concessions to 1 rance in the Mediterranean. Secondly, Germany believes that, the security against French aggression hitherto given by Britain has almost vanished, and that Britain will allow France to omit reservists when making a statement of her armed forces. Thirdly, Italy believes that France will lie allowed to build as many submarines as she pleases in the Mediterranean. These are disagreeable results ot the hushhush policy. The mischief can only be undone* by the publication of the agreement.”