BAN ON SUBMARINES.
SUGGESTED CONFERENCE,
BRITISH MINISTERS’ VIEWS.
(Reuter.) LONDON, November IS. Iu the House of Commons to-day several members suggested that an international conference should be held with a view to the abolilioli of submarines. This course was urged by the chairman of Lloyd’s in a letter io the newspapers immediately after the disaster to the Mi. In reply to the suggestions the Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, said nothing occurred since the Washington Conference to alter the Government’s views as expressed there. Mr W. C. Bridgcman, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that since the Mi was refitted on June 15 no defect in her hull or machinery had been, experienced. She belonged to a of submarines which were universally*' recognised as exceptionally good in under-water control. The Minister said lie Had not seen the statements attributed to a member of the crew about the difficulty the Mi had iu making port at previous exercises, but lie would inquire. Everything would be submitted to the Court of Inquiry, which was now sitting.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 5
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174BAN ON SUBMARINES. Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 5
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