NAVAL DISCUSSIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 5

NAVAL DISCUSSIONS.

GENERAL DAWE’S ‘ COMMENTS. New York, Aug. 7. A message from Buffalo states that General C. G. Dawes, at the United States-Canada Peace Bridge ceremonies, said there should be no discouragement from the slow progress of naval discussions or the solutionless adjournment of the Geneva Conference. That meeting was but an incident in the steady onward inarch of the principle agreed to at the Washington Conference. The Geneva meeting dmonstrated again the desire of the peoples to eliminate competitive war preparation. He emphasised that the conference served to educate the peoples in the details of the special necessities of each nation, and gave public opinion an opportunity to bear upon the debatable details. It was unthinkable that the United States and Britain should place upon the peoples the burden of competitive naval building because the experts temporarily disagreed. If, under their programmes, the United States required heavy cruisers which were not needed by Britain, and Britain light cruisers which were not needed by the United States, this was no excuse for the inauguration of competition in shipbuilding which neither needed.

The conference would result in a demand by the world for the continuation of the work of interpreting the principle of equality until a fair agreement was reached.—(A. and N.Z.)