NAVAL LIMITATIONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 July 1927, Page 5

NAVAL LIMITATIONS

antlbritish campaign.

IN AMERICAN PRESS

VIGOROUS PROTEST TO' BE MADE

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 25.

Contrary to expectation there was no full Cabinet meeting to-day for the discussion of the Geneva negotiations, but the .subject will be considered .separately bv ii Cabinet committee, a section of the Imperial Defence Committee, and the fuv.l Cabinet to-morrow, when the Hem. V. C. Bridgeman and ]x>rd Cecil will be given final instructions for dealing with the American objections to the Anglo-Jnpa nese compromise, which is now the basis of discussion.

The- Daily Telegraph says: Our ambassador at Washington lias been instructed. to protest vigorously against unchecked anti-British, propaganda and the misrepresentation of British statements which have characterised a considerable section of the American Press since the Geneva Conference opened.

BRITISH OBJECTIVES

PEACE, SECIM ITY AND ECONILM Y

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 25

Points- of detail still to besettled in the negotiations on the cruiser problem at the Geneva Naval Limitation Conference were this morning before the Cabinet, which is also understood to be giving genera, consideration to the necessity for meeting constant misrepresentation of the British case in foreign countries. it may be found necessary to draft a statement which would correct the impression that the idea of expansion, which has crept into the conference, has arisen out of the British proposals, which were in fact based entirely on fr desire for achieving the greatest policy of economy consistent with security. 11 given effect to, they would have resulted in an economy of £50,000,000. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Air. Bridgeman) and Lord Cecil will return to Geneva, to-morrow. Their visit to London has enabled Cabinet to endorse the clear statement of the British case made at the recent plenary session. On examining more exhaustively the figures upon which it is based. “Tm Times’’ expresses a hope that certain slight modifications may improve the prospects of agreement. Passing reference to the conference was made in a week-end speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill) at Homiton. He .said : “We desire that the conference results should be permanent, but it is absolutely necessary that the present position of this island should he understood. For many generations we held the sovereignty of the seas. We used it. for the benefit of all nations. .Due consideration must be shown by each of those great Powers to the special needs of the others. “In vital matters agreement A very desirable. Disagreement would be very regrettable. Nevertheless, an agreement that spends gigantic sums on naval construction for many years may be worse for all concerned than a moderate expenditure, following freedom from any agreement. The objects which we set before ourselves are those of security and economy, and, above all, peace and the spirit of peace."