BRITAIN'S PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9

BRITAIN'S PROBLEM

OPEN TRADE ROUTES

OUR GREATEST NEED

(British Official Wireless.)

BTJGBY, 19th June.

The Three-Power Conference' oa Naval Limitation opens at Geneva tomorrow, and its proceedings are awaited here with great interest. The Hon, W. C. Bridgeman,, First Lord of the Admiralty, is chief British delegate, and he will be attended by the naval experts of Australia, Canada, and NewZealand. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe represents the latter Dominion. Mr. Gibson and Admiral Saito are head respectively of 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. Newspapers here generally reiterate the opinions which were expressed when President Coolidge proposed this new Naval Conference. These may Tie summed up in the statemerit, that with a scattered Empire which cannot be supplied even with bare subsistence unless trade routei are kept open, the problem confrontinir Great Britain is infinitely more complex than that, of any other member of tile conference.