NO UNDERSTANDING
OVER WASHINGTON TREATY,.
WASHINGTON, 25th January.
The Japanese Embassy has issued a correction of the Tokio dispatch intimating..that Viscount Kato had admitted the existence of an understanding between Britain, Japan, and the United States over the Naval Treaty signed at Washington. •
The Embassy announced that Viscount Kato said he believed the Treaty would 1 be ratified, but in the unlikely event that it .should fail, an agreement of. some sorji .might eventually be reached between japan,' the United States, and Britain. "Putting . aeide this question, however, let me say" that even -if the Treaty fails we earnestly desire to respect the spirit of the 1 Washington Conference in , reducing expenditures and lightening national burdens."
Viscount Katb next day, in answering a further interpellation in the House of Representatives, flatly denied that ■ such an understanding already existed. . [Viscount Kato was reported to hive said- that in the event of other nations not ratifying the naval agreement, Britain, Japan, and the United States had" an understanding' about a certain course which would be followed.]
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 7
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174NO UNDERSTANDING Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 7
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