NAVAL LIMITATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 7

NAVAL LIMITATIONS

LONDON PRESS COMMENTS.

Australian Press Assn—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, September 27., Commenting on the Foreign Office s denial as to an air pact, the “Daily Telegraph’s” Diplomatic correspondent says-—“ The suspicions would never have arisen but for the unnecessary secrecy in which the Anglo-French agreement was shrouded, and the officials’ delay in contradicting the charges formulated by the Rome Tribuna and elsewhere.” The “Daily Chronicle,” in an editorial headed: “This Way Madness! says: “Bad work has been done for Britain in the past two months by the pitiful blundering of the Foreign Office. The mess is due to the Government persistently subordinating our foreign policy to that of France, whereas the keynote of British policy ought, first and foremost, to be the closest understanding with America.” ’ The “Daily Herald,” says:— No agreement or understanding existed in 1906, but we know that conversations between British and French experts then held provided for naval and military co-operation equivalent Io an alliance.” FRENCH DECLARATION. PARIS, September 26. “Le Matin” declares: —If America opposes the limitation of submarines and cruisers as agreed on by the French British Admiralties, these principles will be abandoned or modified by France.