DISARMAMENT
GREAT BRITAIN’S POLICY. ALL OBLIGATIONS FULFILLED. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 19. (Received Dec. 19, at 5.5 p.m.) “We have nearly doubled the number of ships at the China station, not aggressively to China, but to protect British lives and property and keep peace,” said Mr W. C. Bridgman (First Lord of the Admiralty) in a speech at Finchley. People asked, he said, why Britain did not lead the way in disarmament. His reply was that Britain had disarmed more than any other country, and had also fulfilled completely, her obligations under the Washington Conference. All she was doing now was to make herself of equal strength to any other country. Britain would willingly enter a disarmament conference, but she had to ask other nations to remember that the freedom of the seas was more important to her than it was to them. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 11
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