NAVAL REDUCTION.
HITCH IN FRANCO-ITALIAN NEGOTIATIONS. DISPUTE OVER REPLACEMENTS. (Received Monday, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent says the Franco-Italian naval accord is in serious danger over the question of the replacement of obsolete ships, which was purposely kept in the background during Mr. Henderson’s negotiations with Italy. He trusted that it would be regarded as a secondary point which could be settled during the drafting of the text. Mr. Henderson thus secured Italy’s adherence to the Treaty, though the discrepancy remained. It is now revealed that there are about seventy thousand tons short of the agreement, this being roughly the amount of French replacements. The French delegates say their claim was communicated to Mr. Henderson and they believed the Italians accepted it, whereas the Italian drafters say. they have just heard of the point for the first time-
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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