NAVAL TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 9

NAVAL TALKS

MULTILATERAL SCOPE BRITAIN CONSULTS POWERS MEETING UNDER TEEATY ißritish Official Wireless.) . (Received August 17, noon.) RUGBY, August 16. It is understood that the British Government communicated some weeks ago to the pther signatories of the Washington and London Naval Treaties—the United States, Japan, France, and Italy—an outline of its views, and aims with regard to a speeding up of the preparations for the Five ' Power Naval Conference which is re- i quired to be held under the Washington Naval Treaty before the end of the year. ■ . ' .. ' The Government. proposed that the bilateral conversations should be pushed forward and concluded as soon as possible and that thereafter it might be. possible to widen the scope of the conversations, which might become multilateral.'. It was suggested that these conversations might be held in j London in October. j NO REPLIES YET. j No replies to these suggestions have; yet been received, and no invitations to such a preliminary conference will; be issued until it is clear whether it! could usefully meet as proposed. Under the Washington Treaty it falls to the United States Government to issue invitations for the full formal conference provided for in the Treaty, but the view is held that London might prove a convenient centre for meeting. .