NAVAL DISARMAMENT
BRITAIN AND AMERICA
NEGOTIATIONS DENIED
/.Australian Press Auoclatlon. (Received 13th April, 2 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, 12th April.
White House officially denied the ■ existence;'.of ■ either formal. or informal Angio-American negotiations' toward a conference on ..further naval disarmament.- -•'■ ' ■'.'.:
' It was stated that the United States delegate, "Mr. Gibson,, who is now en routejtb Geneva; for': the- sitting of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission, had not been instructed to initiate such negotiations with the British representative, .- . ■ ' ■ ■ -. ■.■-.- ' .
Statements are issued in denial that preliminary parleys" are in progress between the' United States and Britain aS suggested in recent London and. Washington news-dispatches. In .high official circles it was said to-day that the -sole purpose- of Mr. Gibson's mission was to seek to work out technical details which might become the basis of consideration at a future conference to be called either under the auspices of the, League of Nations, or to be partis cipated in 1' independently by the .chief naval Powers. ; ,'■ . '..
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 11
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158NAVAL DISARMAMENT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 11
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