NAVAL AFFAIRS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 5

NAVAL AFFAIRS.

IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.

PASSED BY IMPERIAL CON-

FERENCE.

(A. and N.Z. Cable. ) (Received 9.40 a.m.) ~ LONDON, August 4.

The naval defence resolution.passed by the Imperial Conference reads: That while recognising the necessity for co-operation among the .various portions of the Empire to provide such naval defence as may prove to be 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 the opinion that the method arrff extent of such co-operation are matters for the .final determination of the several Parliaments concerned, and any such recommendations thereon .should ..be. deferred 1 until after the coming conference on disarmament.” The -substance of this resolution has already been communicated, but the text was only disclosed to-day'.

Commenting on it, bolonel Amery, Under-Secretary for Naval Affairs", said that the resolution would be regarded in; future years as an important landmark, alike in the history of British naval policy and development, and in Imperial cooperation. It dealt with the course .of,. developments. of- the future, and did not directly affect'the policy of Admiralty or the average developments. • The Prime Minister had to keep in view not only the great problems of naval strategy, which Had to be considered by themselves, but the constitutional points involved i» Imperial co-operation, and the still wider issues of international rela*tions.