War Jingoists Assailed

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 274, 22 November 1934, Page 7

War Jingoists Assailed

Bankrupting Naval Race Will Achieve Nothing

NOTED JAPANESE NAVAL MAN’S COMMENT

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.

Assailing the jiugoists of Japan and other nations, Viscount Admiral Makota Saito, former Premier of Japan, declared that tho 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 for 60 years was on active duty with the Japanese Navy, and was Minister for 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 Saito said, "should realise before it is too lato that absolutely nothing will be accomplished by a bankrupting naval race.”

U.S. Naval Developments CHECK ON ESPIONAGE Received Wednesday, 9.25 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The United States, seeking a better bargaining position with foreign naval Powers, was disclosed to-day as having 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 the exchange of naval data, claiming that it could get all necessary information through so-called unofficial channels. Unofficial espionage channels were described as through certain Congressional investigation committees and those which consider the war and navy annual supply Bills and through motion pictures of naval devices and activities.