RUMOURS DENIED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 25 September 1933, Page 7

RUMOURS DENIED.

POWERS’ RIGHT TO BUILD. The report, published in a London newspaper, that a Naval Conference had been called as the result of the new building programmes' of the United States and Japan is flatly denied.* Great Britain does not intend _ to intervene if only because the United States and Japan are fully entitled to build to the London Treaty limits; but moral pressure must be exerted in the attempt to check the inception of a disquieting race in naval armaments which would culminate in Japan demanding parity with Britain and America, and might lead to a deterioration in the relations between American and Japan. BID FOR PARITY. JAPAN PREPARING CASE. Japan is determined to . press her claim for naval parity with Britain and America. It is learned that as a result of the United States’s naval building programme, the Japanese are creating a Naval Commission to examine the situation in connection with her bid for Anglo-American parity at the 1935 Disarmament Conference. The Japanese intend to prepare the strongest case possible, and regard their claim as incontestable.