POWERS' WARSHIPS.
CONSTRUCTION CONTROVERSY BRITAIN OUTVOTED AT GENEVA. GENEVA. March 14. The British delegates to the Disarmament Conference unsuccessfully supported Articlo XX. of the draft Disarmament Convention to exclude from consideration warships which one l ower was building for another. The representatives of Japan, France, and America vigorously opposed the move. Tho Americans contended that such vessels could bo confiscati d by the builders in time of war, thus upsetting the present agreed na,vy propoitions. The obvious allusion was t<> Britain taking over Turkish and Cliiliui battleships in 1914.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21133, 16 March 1932, Page 11
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