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■ NO GROUNDS FOR BREACH REPLY TO QUESTION LN THE COMMONS [ British Official Wirclw». J RUGBY, July 12. A suggestion was made in a question in the House of Commons that Britain should approach America and France with a view to regaining freedom to lay down cruisers with 8-inch guns before 1942. The ground for the suggestion was that, such cruisers were being built by Germany. The Secretary ol the Admiraity, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, who replied, said: “Germany was entitled under the Anglo-German Agreement of 1935 to build up to a maximum of five 8-inch gun cruisers. I nave no information that this maximum is being exceeded. There are, therefore, at present no grounds for approaching the Powers to whom Britain is bound by tr % , vyith a view to Britain being relea / . from her treaty obligations.” He reiterated in reply to supplementary questions with reference to German and Japanese naval building that there are no grounds at present for breaking the “naval holiday,” which was. on the whole, of great benefit to the Powers. He pointed out • that Herr Hitler’s denunciation of lhe Anglo-German Naval Agreement had contained a statement that Germany intended to adhere to the qualitative limits of the London Treaty.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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204“NAVAL HOLIDAY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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