NAVAL AGREEMENT

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7903, 17 September 1929, Page 2

NAVAL AGREEMENT

INBLO-IMEBICiN CONVERSATIONS REDUCTIONS IN SIGHT ONLY ONE GAP TO BE BRIDGED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 15. Warm congratulations are extended in the Press to the Prime Minister, Mr MacDonald, and President Hoover on the success of their conversations on naval armament reduction. Advices from Washington, where a great welcome awaits Mr MacDonald, indicate that the difference stil remaining between the British proposals and the American response, as contained in the Note received by the Prime Minister on Thursday evening, would be left for solution at the Five-Power Naval Conference to be held in London in December. It is stated that it would be unfair to say that the Prime Minister wan visiting Washington to bridge thin last gap. Particular importance is attached by the London Press to the vievr expressed in authoritative circles in Washington that if the. outcome of the negotiations, not yet finally completed, is successful, the armament race would be off not only in cruisers but in all classes of warships.