IS IT A DEADLOCK?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 December 1935, Page 3

IS IT A DEADLOCK?

JAPAN’S CLAIM FOR NAVAL , PARITY. , FOUR POWERS’ OPPOSITION. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright; LONDON, Dec. 11. The Hun-lleralt! agency understands that at the Naval Conference to-day the Japanese sought a navy which would be not only equal to the world's largest but in practice would exceed any other navy in the Pacific. 1 The Japanese say they must have i equality of security with the great 1 Powers,’ but England, America, and the Dominions will never agree be-

muse Britain’s Navy must police the seven seas. Consequently to give Japan equality in any shape or form would automatically constitute an untenable inferiority for Britain, who could not concentrate the whole or even a large portion of her Fleet in the Pacific, as evidenced by the present situation in the Mediterranean. Discussions of Japan’s claim will be continued to-morrow. Nobody at present can see how a deadlock is avoidable. The Daily Telegraph says , that the English and American naval delegates intimated to the Japanese that negotiations cannot be conducted on the basis of Japan’s parity demand, which France and Italy also oppose.