NAVAL AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 December 1920, Page 5

NAVAL AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. Mr. Josephus Daniels (Naval Secretary) in his statement does not favour , an agreement between Britain, Japan, j and the United States for limiting naval j armaments. " 1 Coincident with the publication of Mr. Daniels' shipbuilding recomimendations, reports are current that promin--ent Republicans will urge Mr. Harding ±o reach an agreement with Britain and Japan to suspend naval building for five • years. • ■ NEW YORK, Dec. 13. The textile mill-owners at Bedford, Massachusetts, have announced their Intention, to make a 22£ per cent, reduction in workmen's wages. This will affect 100,000 workers, New Bedford be_ ing one of the greatest national textile manufacturing centres in the United States; ■