REDUCING NAVAL ARMAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1928, Page 13

REDUCING NAVAL ARMAMENT

STATES AND LEAGUE COVENANT.

SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN’S VIEWS

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 10, 8.20 p.m. A. and N.Z. New York, Feb. 9. Dr. Butler, president of the Columbia University, addressing the Pilgrim Society on its 25th. anniversary, suggested that a reduction of naval armament would result if the United States adhered to Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, imposing a blockade upon aggressor nations, with the reservation that such blockade should not be directed against nations of the western hemisphere. In the British House of Commons, at London, referring to the failure of the Three Power Naval Conference at Geneva, Sir Austen Chamberlain said: “I do not think we should be well advised to take up the subject again at this moment, but I hope that the Governments interested in but not parties to it may learn from that failure, so that when the time comes to review the Washington Conference and, as I hope, to make a new one, profiting by the lessons of the past, we may succeed where last year we failed.”