GERMAN WARSHIPS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 5

GERMAN WARSHIPS.

QUESTION OF DISPOSAL.

MUST BE DECIDED BY THE CON-

FERENCE.

LONDON, Feb. 27. In the House of Lords, Lord Lytton, replying to a question regarding-.the disposal ot the .German fleet, .said the question must be decided by the Paris conference. The proposal to.sink the fleet would only be adopted if the representatives of the nations unanimously concluded that was the best course. The British attached the utmost importance to the view that the ships should not continue to form part of any naval armament or .henceforth, be used as ships of war. There remained three alternatives. Fastly, to sink; secondly, to break up; thirdly, to sell under certain conditions. It was simply and solely, an economic proposition whether it would pay to break up or useithe ships for other purposes.—Reuter.