NAVAL DEFENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 6 August 1921, Page 7

NAVAL DEFENCE.

CONFERENCE RESOLUTION. IMPORTANT HISTORIAL LANDMARK. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received 5.5 p.m., August o. LONDON, Aug. 4. The naval defence resolution passed by the Imperial Conference reads: “That while recognising the necessity for co-operation, among the variious portions of the Empire to provide §uch naval defence as may prove to he essential to security, and while holding that equality with the naval strength of any other Power Is the minimum suggested for that purpose, this Conference is of opinion that the method and extent of such co-opera-tion are matters for final determination of the several Parliaments concerned, and any such recommendations thereon should be deferred until after the coming Conference on Disarmament.” The substance of this resolution has already been communicated, but the text was disclosed only to-day. Commenting ou the resolution, ) Colonel Amery said the resolution would be regarded in future yeara as an important landmark in the history of British naval policy, and the development of Imperial co-operation. It dealt with the course of developments of the future, and did not dii rectly affect the policy of the Admir- ! alty or arrest development. The i Prime Ministers had to keep in view not only the great prbolems of naval J strategy, which had to be considered by themselves, but the constitutional issues involved, in Imperial co-opera-tion, and the still wider issues of international relations.