NAVAL TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 9

NAVAL TALKS

LONDON MEETINGS END SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 18, 11.40 a.m.) - RUGBY, September 17. The third meeting of the representatives of the Scandinavian countries and the United Kingdom Government m connection with the London Naval Treaty was held at the Foreign Office today. The purpose of these meetings has been to enable experts from the four countries concerned to make contact with representatives of the United Kingdom in order to elucidate points arising out of the London Naval Treaty of 1936.

Full explanations on all points have now been given, and the naval experts will be able to return to their respective countries with the necessary information to permit their Governments to decide on their attitude to the Treaty. Good progress has been made, and it is expected that further discussions will take place in the near future. It is understood that there are still outstanding technical questions to be settled, but it is, hoped that these will soon be overcome. There is every evidence of the utmost readiness on the part of the Scandinavian countries to assist in every way in order to obtain a satisfactory settlement. The British Government is awaiting a reply from Germany in connection with the earlier naval conversations with German representatives, and it is hoped that the discussions between the two countries will be resumed very shortly;