THE NAVAL TREATY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5

THE NAVAL TREATY

FRAN CO-ITALIAN RELATIONS

NAVAL ‘‘HOLIDAY’* ABANDONED.

MUSSOLINI’S EXTENSIVE

PROGRAMME

(U.P.A. by Eloc. Tgl. Copyright.) (Received Jan. 2, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1.

The' Times Romo correspondent states that any extension of the Franco-Italian naval holiday has obviously been abandoned. The newspapers give prominence to a list of vessels launched in. 1930, totalling 59,000 tons, six cruisers, six submarines arid three destroyers—and refer to units being launched in 1931, including the 10,000 ton cruiser Rolit -which is being laid down in March. Newspapers emphasise the Italian determination to achieve the “constant growing efficiency rendoicd necessary by the present international situation.”

PROCLAIMED EFFECTIVE IN ’ UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT’S' NEW YEAR. PEACE GESTURE.

(U.P.A.. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 2. 7.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 As a gesture of peace throughout the New Year, Mr. Hoover to-day proclaimed. the' London Naval Treaty in- the effect 'for the United States. The' proclamation cited the effectiveness of the five-Power . pn*t. mid called attention- to its provisions linking the' ' British Euipu'<>. Japan, Italy, Franco and'the Unitod States in bonds of goodwill.

IRISH RATIFICATION

(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Dec. 31

The Kina’s instrument of ratification in respect of the Irish Free State of the .London Naval Treaty, of 1930, was deposited to-day at the Foreign Office by the High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London, and the treaty is therefore now in force.