DISARMAMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19845, 20 May 1927, Page 8

DISARMAMENT

THE NAVAL CONFERENCE ITALY’S INTENTIONS. (A. & N.Z.) ROME, May 18. Replying to President Coolidge’s second Note inviting Italy to be represented in some manner at the Disarmament Conference, the Government states that it reserves the right to send naval observers in accordance as the negotiations develop. JAPAN’S INTENTIONS SEVERAL NEW PROPOSALS. NEUTRALISATION OP THE PANAMA CANAL. Received Mav 19, 8 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, May 19. LONDON, May 19. The Morning Post’s Geneva correspondent says that the Japanese at President Coolidge’s Disarmament Conference will demand the maintenance, of the status quo at Singapore and Hawaii, and the perpetual demilitarisation of the Philippines through the extension of the Washington Treaty, also the neutralisation of the Panama Canal and the opening of the seas, as well as the gateways of commerce to all nations.

Japan’s chief delegate at the Econo mic Conference has already, stressed a demand for equality of all countries in coastwise traffic. This would mean that Japanese shipping between Western and Eastern United States, vja the. Panama Canal, would be on terms of equality with American commerce.