REARMAMENT

Grey River Argus, 31 July 1934, Page 2

REARMAMENT

NAVAL ISSUE. MR BALDWIN\S STATEMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. July 25. In the Commons Mr Baldwin questioned as to the present position of the Naval conversations pieparatori to the conference in 1935. said that preliminary conversations had ai ready taken j>lace with represent itives of the United States and French Governments. • Similar conversations with representatives of the Italian Government would probably be undertaken in September, and with representatives of the Japanese Government in October. ALASKAN BASE. WASHINGTON. July 25. In response to questions at the JTes.s Conference to-day the Secretary of the Navy (Mr Swanson) said Alaska was among flhe areas being considered as a site for a Pacific base-. He emphasised however. that no more consideration was being given to Alaska than anv of a dozen other .•otes. ‘‘lt is the policy of the navy to consider estahlislhing two operating bases in the Pacific and two in the Atlantic, At the present time, ten Martin bomb, ing machines are now in Alaska, after a flight from Washington, and a sea plane flotilla, is now at Seattle prep’ara torv to a visit to A.las-kia,” he said. ARMS EMBARGO. RUGBY, July 25. A Geneva message states that at. the, request of the British Governmenr, Senor Castillo Najera. President of the Committee of the League of Nations, which, is dealing- with the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, dispatched to the eighteen countriewhich have not yet replied regarding the suggestion of an arms embargo, an intimation that the British Govern went is ready to order, without any exceptions regarding current con tracts, a suspension of the export of •war material. The British Government desires* to know whether othe; States are prepared, on their part, without reservation. and if possible before tihe end of the month, to agree to a similar embargo.