PACIFIC WAR HAZARDS

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1934, Page 7

PACIFIC WAR HAZARDS

AVIATOR’S REMEDY U.S.A.-Jap Dirigible Service (Aiis. A- NZ. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, October 3. Testifying before the U.S.A. Federal Aviation Investigation Coiri mission, Captain Edward Rickenbacker, a famous war pilot, urged the establishment of a trans-Pacific passenger-mail dirigible service, jointly operated by the United States and Japan. He said that such a service would tend to eliminate the war hazards hanging over the world.

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SIR R. KEYES’ AGITATION. t (Aus. & N Z. Cable Assn.) NEW October 3. Asserting that the London Naval Treaty placed Britain under a handicap, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes predicted to-night, before sailing for England, that it would be dropped when it terminates next year. Sir Roger Keyes said that it was his opinion that a nation should be allowed to have all of the ships necessary for guarding its trade routes, and for tho protection of its coastline. “Under the London Pact,” he said, “we began with sixty cruisers less than when we entered the Great War, and then we were reduced to fifty cruisers later. By the time the Treaty expires, four teen of these cruisers will have to be replaced, so you can see how obviously unfair it is.” LONDON NAVAL TREATY. WILL IT BE DITCHED? (Aus. & N Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, October 4. President Roosevelt has designated the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral William Standley, to accompany Mr Norman Davis, who sails for London on October 10th for informal naval conversations with Britain and Japan. President Roosevelt emphasised that his confreres were charged merely with the, responsibility of deciding the advisability of holding another Naval Conference at the expiration of the London Naval Treaty next vear.