A STRIKE FOR PEACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 305, 22 November 1934, Page 7

A STRIKE FOR PEACE.

BY JAPANESE ADMIRAL. CONDEMNATION OF JINGOISM. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. ' Assailing jingoists of Japan and other nations, Viscount Admiral Makota Saito, former Premier of Japan, declared that the tri-party naval discussions in London “must succeed for the peace of the world.” In a signed article to be published in Wednesday’s Christian Science Monitor, Viscount Saito, who has been for 60 years on active duty with the Japenese Navy and Minister of the Navy in three Cabinets, asserted that deliberate propaganda in all countries threatened the success of the efforts to secure naval limitations.

Right-thinking people of all nations, Viscount Sajto said, should realise before it is too late that “absolutely nothing will be accomplished by a bankrupting naval race.” LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION. REPORT IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The United States, which is seeking a better bargaining position with foreign naval Powers, was to-day disclosed to have clamped secrecy restrictions on information concerning new naval developments.' The Navy Department’s move was prompted by word that leaks-had occurred. At least one world Power refused to co-operate in an exchange of naval data, claiming that it "could get all the necessary information through so-called unofficial channels,

Unofficial espionage channels were described as through certain congressional investigation ' committees and those which consider war and the navy annual supply bills and through motion pictures of naval devices - and activities.