NAVAL TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 11

NAVAL TALKS

RESUMING IN LONDON

BRITAIN, JAPAN, AMERICA

DELEGATES AHBIVE

(liritisli Official Wireless.)

(Received October 17, 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, October 16.

Bilateral naval conversations to prepare- Hie way for the Conference which is to bo hold next year are about to be resumed in London, arid the American delegates, Mr. Norman Davis and Rear-Admiral Staudley, and the Japaneso delegate, Rear-Admiral Yamamoto, arrived in England today. They were met by representatives of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office.

These conversations began in London on June IS on the initiative of the British Government and were originally intended to deal primarily with matters of procedure. More technical matters, such as tonnage and ratios, were, however, informally discussed at various meetings until July 16, when it was decided to suspend the talks until this month, pending tho arrival in London of the Japanese naval delegates. Conversations were carried on most fully between British and American rand" British and French representatives, and in this ease they were felt to have been of real value in clearing the ground. On the part of Japan, Mr. Matsudaira, tho Japanese Ambassador, had helpful talks with the representatives o£ the British Government, and Mr. Yamamoto will now be associated with Mr. Matsudaira in continuance of these talks.

A French naval expert visited London in July in connection with the convorsationsj and in the course of the autumn it is probable that both French and Italian representatives will visit London to take-part in the resumed conversations.