NAVAL TREATIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7

NAVAL TREATIES

TWO SIGNED BY BRITAIN. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN. LONDON, July 38. The Anglo-German and Anglo-ltus-sian bilateral naval agreements, which were reported on July 8 to be under negotiation, were signed yesterday by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr Anthony Eden), the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. Duff Cooper), the German Ambassador in London (Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop), and the Soviet Ambassador in London (M. Ivan Maisky). They will be issued as a White Paper on Monday. It is hoped that they will be ratified simultaneously with the London Nava] Treaty of 1930, which the House of Commons will discuss on Tuesday. Russia made reservation regarding the Far East, and a special provision loaves the Soviet free from, the obligation of furnishing information concerning her naval vessels constructed and employed there. "Also, after notifying Britain, the Soviet is permitted to depart from the treaty in regard to qualitative restrictions in the Par East in the event of Japan departing from treaty limits. In addition, it was agreed, in view of the Japanese cruiser development, that the Soviet be allowed to fit 7.lin. guns on her seven new cruisert, although that takes them out of the proper limits of their category. The treaties are current until 194/, subject to a conference in 1940.