NAVAL ARMAMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1928, Page 7

NAVAL ARMAMENTS

ANGLO-AMERICAN LIMITATION

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.!

.LONDON, March 22

Lieut. Col. Headlam, speaking on the Navy Estimates, states that the Admiralty’s total expenditure to date on the Singapore Base amounted to £508,500. This year they would spend £228,000, plus £300,000 for the floating dock. Towards (his expenditure, £378,000 had been received from New Zealand, Hong Kong and the Federated Malay States.

Mr Bridgeman, in reply to a question by Lord H. Cecil, said a recent letter in the Press referred to a .Cabinet discussion on the Geneva Conference. This was usual, and he did not propose to violate the secrecy of Cabinet, discussions. The British proposals were eventually rejected at Geneva, 'not over the question of eight inch guns, but Hie total tonnage. Lady Astor asked: Would it not be better to forget Geneva, and look forward to the next conference? Mr Bridgeman agreed, believing, as States were not thinking for a moStates were not thinging for a moment of any kind of aggressive warfare. They might hope, if feelings were not aroused and mischief done between the two countries, that with the foundations laid at Geneva, some satisfactory limitation might be agreed upon in the not distant future.