WASHINGTON TREATY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 119, 4 May 1934, Page 5

WASHINGTON TREATY

No Notice of Termination (British Official Wireless.) (Received 4, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 8. Asked if the Government intended to give notice before December 31, 1934, to terminate the Washington Limitation of Armaments Treaty, 1922, Mr R. A. Eden, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said it was not the present intention of the Government to take steps with a view to the termination of that treaty. The parties to the treaty above referred to were the British Empire, th# United States of America. France, Italy and Japan, and it had regard only to naval armaments. It was to remain in force until December 31, 1936, and in case none of the contracting parties should have given notice twq years before that date of its intention to terminate the treaty, it was to continue in force until the expiration of two years from the date on which notice should be given by any one of the contracting Powers, whereupon the treaty was to terminate as regards all the contracting Powers. It further provided that within one year from the giving of any such notice all the contracting Powers should meet in conference.