NAVAL COMPROMISE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20522, 25 September 1928, Page 9

NAVAL COMPROMISE

PUBLICATION OF AGREEMENT,

IRREGULAR DISCLOSURES. INQUIRY IN PARIS OPENED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, September 23. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened an inquiry into the leakage of the naval compromise agreement which is believed to have occurred at Geneva. It is officially regretted that disclosures were made irregularly, otherwise there is a general agreement that no barm was done, because the document confirms the British and French Governments’ sincerity in an attempt to reach an understanding. The only mischief consists of the use to which the document was subjected in America. French opinion believes that unfounded accusations were made in the United States because the American navy has become a bone of contention in internal politics, especially in view of the impending election. There exists an influential section in America anxious to prevent Anglo-French co-operation toward peace. —United Service. COMMENT BY MORNING POST. ORGANISED CONSPIRACY AFOOT. LONDON, September 23. The Morning Post, commenting on the letter in the Now York American, says that there seems to be an organised conspiracy afoot to represent the AngloFrench preliminary understanding as if it were intended to isolate the United States. The promoters of the discord first published a forged letter purporting to be from Sir Austen Chamberlain, and now' the Hearst Press has published a letter alleged to be from M. Briand, again representing it as an antiAmerican intention. It is obvious that during the Presidential election any sort of brick thrown at England and France may be popular with the GermanAmericans and the Irish-Americans.— Australian Press Association.