NAVAL PROBLEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 8

NAVAL PROBLEMS

THREE-POWER CONGRESS BRITAIN’S COMPLEX POSITION (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 19. ’the Three-Power Conference on naval limitation opens at Geneva to-morrow, and its proceedings are awaited here with great interest. Mr. VY. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, is the chief British delegate, and he will be attended by naval experts of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Admiral of the' Fleet Lord Jellicoe represents the latter Dominion.

Mr. Gibson and Admiral Saito head respectively the American and Japanese delegations. France and Italy, which took part in the Washington Conference of 1921, will be represented' at this conference only by an informateur arid observer respectively. While the Washington Conference dealt only with capital ships, the present conference will discuss every class of naval craft.

The newspapers here generally reiterate the opinions which were expressed when President- Coolidge proposed this new naval conference. These may be summed up in the' statement that with a scattered Empire which cannot, be supplied even with bare subsistence unless trade routes are kept open the problem confronting Great Britain is infinitely more complex than that of any other member of the conference.