TWO NEW NAVAL PACTS
ANGLO-RUSSIAN AND ANGLO-GERMAN SOVIET GIVEN SCOPE IN FAR EAST (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received July 18, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Bilateral naval agreements between Britain and Germany and Britain and Russia were signed today by the Foreign Secretary (Mr R. A. Eden) and the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. Duff Cooper), for Britain, the German Ambassador (Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop) and the Russian Ambassador (M. Ivan Maisky). The agreements will be issued as a White Paper on Monday, and it is hoped that they will be ratified simultaneously with the London Naval Treaty of 1936, which the House of Commons will discuss next Tuesday. Russia made a reservation about the Far East. A special provision leaves the Soviet free from the obligation of furnishing information about the naval vessels constructed and employed there. Also, after notifying Britain, the Soviet is permitted to depart from the treaty in qualitative restrictions in the Far East in the event of Japan departing from the treaty’ limits. In addition, it is agreed, in view of the Japanese cruiser development, that the Soviet be allowed to fit 7.lin guns on seven new cruisers, although it takes her out of the proper limits of their category. The treaties are current until 1942 and subject to a conference in 1940.
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Southland Times, Issue 23255, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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