THE NAVAL TALKS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 7

THE NAVAL TALKS

A HOPEFUL FEATURE

UNREGULATED COMPETITION NOT DESIRED.

EFFORTS FOR AMITY,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received November 8, 11.25 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 7.

The London bilateral naval conversations were continued when a formal meeting between the British and Japanese delegations . was held, the Prime Minister presiding. A brief communique stated that the discussion on the Japanese proposals was continued. These proposals, inter alia, substitute equality for the differential rates of naval strengths fixed by the Washington Treaty, but they have so far proved unacceptable to both the American and British delegations. In their present stage the conversations are directed towards bringing the three Powers into line, but the confidential nature of the talks is being strictly observed. For the present no further formal meetings have been arranged, but the individual members of all the delegations are in close contact with one another. A hopeful feature of the exchanges so far is the evidence that they have given that all the parties are united in a desire to prevent reversion to open and unregulated competition.