TREATY NEGOTIATIONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 January 1929, Page 9

TREATY NEGOTIATIONS

LATE EDITION

AMERICA AND BRITAIN PROPOSALS WITHOUT RESPONSE. SENATOR KELLOGG EXPLAINS. ('United Press Association—By Electric Teiegrauh Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) •Received .12,30 p.m., to-day. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Senator Kellogg states that an attempt to expedite negotiations for an arbitration treaty with Great Britain will be made before March. Mr. Kellogg forwarded a draft of the proposed treaty to London thirteen months ago, hut says that no move has been made by the British, either to accept or to reject it. It is understood in unofficial circles that British objections to the proposed treaty are based on claims that the questions involving so called special interests would be subjected to arbitration.

Mr. Kellogg believes it will be impossible to complete negotiations for all, pending arbitration and conciliation treaties, before the present administration ends because the eliminating treaties now pending with American countries and thorty-one await negotiation with European and Asiatic l owers, but he hopes that the principal ones will he negotiated and possibly ratified bv March 4.