BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17503, 10 September 1928, Page 7

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

NAVAL ARMS PACT. WILL IT BE ABANDONED? RUMOURS IN LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). LONDON, Sept. 8. It has been decided in London and in Paris quietly tot drop the - g French naval arms compromise, vy excited such a storm of controversy, according to the diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. He ex presses Ihe opinion that the agreemen vvTi not be'submitted to the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament that every effort will be made to avo the publication of its text. The main reason for the abandonment of the agreement, says the writei, is the belated realisation, not oni. o( the resistance it would encounter from the Governments of the bnited States and Italy, but of the feelings o resentment and distrust arousied in the minds, of the people of Germany and Italy. , . In official, circles, however, it is suggested that reports that the naval agreement is likely to be droppe are misleading. Britain and France had reached a joint formula for naval disarmament for presentation to the League's Preparatory Commission on Disarmament, This is now under consideration at Washington, Tokio and Rome. If the United States, Japan and Italy agree to the Anglo-French joint proposition, it will go to the preparatory commission as an agreed proposal.