NAVAL CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 29 February 1924, Page 5

NAVAL CONFERENCE

UNANIMITY DOUBTED.

BX CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COFYMGHT ROME, Feb. 27. The Naval Conference closed wifcli an official declaration of unanimity which it is diffioult to reconcile with' the reports of diseension among the delegates. Notwithstanding the semi-official denial the Spanish delegate published a frank statement explaining that he had (retired because" he failed to secure general support for the tonnage of 105,000 instead of the permitted 83,000. * The Russian delegate uncompromisingly claimed 400,000 tons, also the closure of the Baltic and Dardanelles to all warships.—Reuter.