SEIZURES AT SEA.
QUESTION IN COMMONS.
RELATIONS WITH AMERICA.
British Wireless
RUGBY, Feb. 6
In the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, replying to Colon*!? J. Wedgwood, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lvme, said the United States Government bad not approached him in reference to a conference with the object of arranging a treaty to guarantee the immunity of private property from seizure at sea. Colonel Wedgwood: Do the advantages to be gained by insisting upon our right to search vessels outweigh the drawbacks of armament competition, also the risk of bringing America into any war against ?
lIS . Sir Austen deprecated tho tendencies of questions relations with Ametica when the respective naval conditions were under consideration. ]
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20175, 8 February 1929, Page 11
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