THE WASHINGTON TREATY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18593, 2 January 1935, Page 5

THE WASHINGTON TREATY

JAPAN'S ABROGATION

BRITISH PRESS COMMENT

HOPE FOR NEW AGREEMENT

(Brltiah Official Wireless.) Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 1. The Japanese Ambassador in London, Mr. Matsudira, called at the Foreign Office to acquaint the British Government officially of Japan’s intention to terminate the Naval Treaty of Washington from December 31, 1930.

Commenting on the denunciation,the Times says: “The event is none the less grave because it was universally foreseen. Japanese diplomacy has made the act of abrogation appear a mere formality, but it cannot conceal demolition of a model edifice of international agreement set up 13 years ago. Yet, even at the moment of denunciation, Japan emphatically proclaims her desiTO to rebuild a new treaty on tho debris of tho old, and the London negotiations of tho last two months havd been Conducted with such remarkable frankness, tact, and goodwill by all three parties, that their* hope, which is moro„than shared by ; Great Britain and the United States, seems by no meins to be im ; possiblo of fulfilment.