MOMENTOUS MEETING
THE PROBLEM FOR CABINET
LONDON, 25th Jnly. The "Daily Telegraph's" aiplomatis correspondent says that to-day's meeting of Cabinet is momentous. Minis* ters will have to make decisions defining the exact limits of the British concessions to tho Amorican and Japanese standpoints. It may be pointed out tliat the British cruiser squadrons in the Mediterranean had to be gzavely depleted in order to provide the cruiser force required in the Pacific in order to cope with the Chinese dangers. That is where the adoption of a 12-12-8 ratio for large cruisers might threaten Brit* ish naval security and the communications of the Empire, unless a substantial surplus of small, but not necessarilymodern, cruisers is conceded to Britain. Fortunately the Chinese crisis happened when there was no danger of war in Europe, otherwise the British Fleet in the middle seas would have been unduly weak. American opinion has failed to realise this.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 9
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152MOMENTOUS MEETING Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 9
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