NAVAL ADDITIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1925, Page 5

NAVAL ADDITIONS

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. (Reuter.) LONDON, -July 23. In the House of Comm'ons, Mr. Baldwin said the Admiralty would do its utmost to diminish the extra cost of the new construction by substantial reductions in 1 the maintenance aiid other charges of the Navy. Moreover, a committee of three, not connected with the Government, would be appointed as soon as possible to examine the maintenance cost and interior economy of the Navy, Army, md Air Services. There was lively questioning by the Labourites and others. Mr. A, Henderson intimated that the Opposition would give attention to the matter on Tuesday. - Mr. Purcell said he wondered when we will get a Government with the courage to put the Admiralty in its proper place.

Commander Kenworthy asked whether the programme was drawn up without reference to the ships being built abroad. Mr. Baldwin, replying, emphasised this was entirely a replacement programme. He promised a detailed explanation in the debate. The “Times” congratulates the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on the settlement of the cruiser question. It says: “The industrial state of the country is not such as to invite unnecessary divisions, nor is the Empire overseas, especially in the Far East, set in so peaceful an environment momentarily that the maintenance of adequate protection for British trade routes and scattered dependencies could be allowed to drift. A JAPANESE OPINION. NEW YORK, July 23. Count Michimasa Seyeshima proposed a second international .conference on international relations from a Christian viewpoint in the course of an address at Conference Chatau-i qua under the auspices of the Federal Council of Christian Churches. He urged the repeal of the Japanese exclusion provision in the U.S.A. Immigration Act, which, he said, a section of the Japanese people feel is • “a studied insult.” Count Michimasa said that nationwide mobilisation, and naval manoeuvres on a gigantic scale, almost eclipsing all they read of in the naval struggles of history, and other causes 1 of conflict, were to be seen in some parts of the globe. If the Powers continued arming as today, there would be another world war, followed by a world revolution, and an end of civilisation.