DISARMAMENT.
MR. COOLIDGE ’S CONFERENCE. JAPANESE DEMANDS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 19. The “Morning Post’s” Geneva correspondent says that the Japanese at the Coolidge Disarmament Conference will demand the maintenance of the status quo at Singapore and Hatvaii, and the perpetual demilitarisation of the Philippines through the extension of the Washington Treaty, Japan will demand the neutralisation of the Panama Canal and the opening of the seas, as well as the gateways of commerce, to all nations. Mr. ShiOeehi, Japan’s chief delegate at the Economic Conference, has already stressed the demand for . the equality of all countries in coastwise traffic. This would mean that Japanese shipping between the western and eastern United States, via Panama Canal, would be on an equality with American commerce.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1927, Page 5
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125DISARMAMENT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1927, Page 5
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