WASHINGTON TREATIES.
THE BRITISH BILL. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 8, 9.6 a.m.) TONDON, July 7. Lieutenant-Colonel L. C. Amer ? (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty) in moving the second reading of the Washington Treaties Bill in the House of Commons, explained that the object of the Bill was to give the Government legal powers to carry out certain provisions of the two naval treaties. He said that he thought that thefe should not be any hesitation iri showing that the English Parliament was entirely beind this great pact. Mr H. H. Asquith said that he would have welcomed an agreement to abolish submarine warfare altogether. It wa* time they had a similar agreement regarding land armaments and men. Lieutenant-Colonel Amery said that he still hoped that the Powers outside the five signatories would come into line. The Bill was read a second time unanimously.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16780, 8 July 1922, Page 9
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