EMPIRE NAVLA DEFENCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 August 1921, Page 3

EMPIRE NAVLA DEFENCE.

) DOMINION’S SHARE OF BURDEN. '■* a canny”resolution. {By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.). (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) London, August 4. The Naval Defence. resolution passed by the Imperial Conference reads: “That, while recognising the necessity for op-operation among the various portions of the Empire to provide such naval defence as may prove to, : be essential to ■■ ' curity, and while holding that equality with the naval strength ' • of any Other Power is the minimum suggested" for that purpose, this Conference is of opinion that the method and extent of such coopertion are matters for the Anal determination, of the several Parliaments concerned, arid any such ! recommendation thereon should > he deferred until after the coming conference on disarmament.” The substance of this resolution has already been communicated, but the text was only disclosed to-day.-Commenting on it, Mr Amery (on ' behalf of the British Government) said the resolution would be regarded in future years as an important landmark alike in the history of British naval policy and the development of Imperial co-operation. It. dealt with the course of developments of the i future and did not directly affect the policy of the Admiralty or the average development. The prime motive was to keep in view not only the great problems ofi naval strategy which are to be considered by themselves, but the constitutional issues involved in Imperial co-operation and the still wider issues of international relations.