AGREEMENT REACHED

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6

AGREEMENT REACHED

LIQUOR SEARCH TREATY SIGNATURE SHOULD TAKE PLACE WITHIN WEEK. AS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received January 23, 10.45 p.m.) «. NEW YORK, January 22. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says that accord has been finally reached between Britain and the United States regarding the Liquor Search Treaty, which will soon be signed, possibly within a week. Senator W. E. Ohilton and Mr C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, conferred to-day with the charge d’affaires, and suggested certain minor changes in the wording of the Treaty, which is believed to be acceptable to the United States. The Treaty, as Mr Hughes originally proposed it, is known to be generally oonserved in the present pact the chief points being, that America obtains the right to search suspicious vessels believed to be rum-running within an hour’s steaming of American shores, and British ships can enter American waters with liquor sealed 1 . It is understood that similar troubles will now be subject to negotiation with France, Belgium, Italy and Holland, with whom similar conversations already have begun.