ARMAMENTS PROBLEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 7

ARMAMENTS PROBLEM

JAPAN DEMANDS EQUALITY NEXT NAVAL CONFERENCE LIVING NEAR TWO VOLCANOES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 4. The Times’ Tokio correspondent states: —Emphasising that Germany, though defeated in the war, was demanding equality of armaments, the Foreign Office spokesman stated that Japan would demand parity in principle with Britain and America at the Naval Confercucc in 1935. Equality in a matter so vital was tho only basis the nations to-day could be expected to accept.

This docs not mean that Japan will refuse to reduce naval armaments. She is ready to negotiate practical modifications with Britain and America when the principle of equality is conceded. Viscount Ishi, chief delegate en route to the Economic Conference, interviewed, said that it was unlikely that Japan would bo able to reduce armaments much. “We are living at the foot of two volcanoes which a a: quiescent but are not extinct.”