NAVAL PROBLEMS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 7

NAVAL PROBLEMS

ANGLO-AMERICAN AGREEMENT PROGRESSIVE REDUCTION (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, Sepf. 4. Tli e Times' correspondent at Geneva states that trustworthy authority has disclosed that among the 17 points on which Mr MacDonald declared that there wa s Anglo-Ameri-can agreement are the following:— Whole accord will be definitely linked in the Kellogg Pact. Both countries wi;ll:aassum e naval co-operation, not antagonism. Parity applies to every class of vessel. , Naval strength will be reduced, not merely limited.^ Progressive reduction over a period of years will ,he effected by non-re-placement of obsolete vessels. Th active life of all ; warships will be prolonged. The yardstick will be applied only to cruisers. The total tonnage of destroyers and submarines will he limited. Small police cruisers' will not be included in naval strength. The unsettled points are believed to include the question of restricting battleships to a maximum tonnage smaller.than authorised by the Washington Conference, also the actual reduction of cruiser tonnage of both countries to be reduced to tb e maximum of gun calibre.