“NAVAL HOLIDAY”
NO GROUNDS FOR CESSATION.
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
RUGBY, July 12.
The suggestion was made in a Parliamentary question that Britain should approach America and France with a view to regaining freedom to lay down 8-inch gun' cruisers before 1942. The grounds for the suggestion were that cruisers were being built by Germany. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare) who replied, said: “Germany was entitled under the British-German Agreement of 1935 to build up to a maximum of five 8-inch gun cruisers; I have no information. that this maximum is being exceeded. There are therefore at present no grounds for approaching the Powers, to whom Britain is bound by treaty, with a view to Britain being released from her treaty obligations.’’ He reiterated in reply to supplementary questions in reference to German and Japanese building, that there were no grounds at'present for breaking the “Naval holiday” which was, on the whole, of great benefit to the Powers. He stated that Herr Hitler’s denunciation of the British-German Naval Agreement had contained the statement that Germany intended to adhere to the qualitative limits of the London Treaty.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19390714.2.37
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1939, Page 7
Word Count
189“NAVAL HOLIDAY” Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1939, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in