POWERS INFORMED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22833, 14 September 1937, Page 9

POWERS INFORMED

ITALY AND GERMANY POLICING OF WATERS CO-OPERATION INVITED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received September 13, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless IIUGBY, Sept. 12 The draft proposals adopted at Nyon will now be referred to the Governments of the States participating and the Italian Government, which has been asked if it is prepared to join in the measures laid down for ensuring the safety of merchant shipping from lawless attack.

The German Government also has been informed of the work of the conferences, in accordance with the assurance given by the convening Governments in acknowledging the German and Italian replies to the original invitations.

It now seems likely that the conference will be able to conclude its labours on Monday, by which time the Governments should have been able to instruct their delegates.

Press messages from Nyon say that according to the agreement reached, each nation will police its own territorial waters, while Italy will be invited to co-operate with France and Britain in assuming the policing of the Mediterranean as a whole, which will be carried out by the latter two nations alone if Italy refuses. The idea of zones, the eastern one of which would have been assigned to the smaller Mediterranean powers and Russia has been abandoned.