DISARMAMENT QUESTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19625, 2 May 1927, Page 10

DISARMAMENT QUESTION.

EARL JEIMCOE'S VIEW. FIXED SiZE OF CRUISERS. MISTAKE AT WASHINGTON. 23 y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May 1, 5.5 p.m.) 'A. and N.Z.-Snn. LONDON, April 30. The question of disarmament was referred to by some of the speakers at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy. Karl Jellicoe urged a limitation of the size of ships. He said the greatest mistake made by the Washington Conference •was fixing the size of cruisers at 10,000 tons when it might have been made much Slower. The effect had been to mako obsolete nearly every British cruiser and to enforce a standard of 10 000 tons for all Sfutm e cruisers. The Secretary of State for War, Sir L. V/orthington-Evans, said that although the British,, Army had been greatly reduced it was as efficient and as well equipped as any in the world. Stupendous disaster had been prevented in China. Proof of the army's businesslike efficiency N was given in the rapid despatch of large numbers of troops at phort notice to Shanghai. NAVAL ARMAMENTS. conference: at geneva. [ THE EMPIRE DELEGATION. (Received, April 30, 5.25 p.m.) Suri. LONDON. April 30. Viscount Cecil. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, and ReariAdmiral J. D. Kelly, Fourth Sea Lord, ,will be the Empire's principal delegates at the coming conference on naval armaments at Geneva.