NAVAL LIMITATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7

NAVAL LIMITATION

ITALIAN ATTITUDE. PARTY STILL DEMANDED. EYE KEPT ON FRANCE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) LONDON, Sept. 19. The Times’s correspondent at Rome states:— “Italy has not yet shown her hand in regard to naval disarmament, but at- present there is no reason to suppose that her attitude has in any wise changed from last year, when she undertook to accept any figure however low, provided it was not exceeded by any other Continental Power. In other words, Italy is determined ever to maintain her right to parity with France. The Washington Conference recognised this parity as far as the larger units were concerned, but Italy wants it extended to light cruisers and submarines. “It is insisted that such recognition on the part of France must be a condition precedent to any concerted naval disarmament action between the two countries.” RELIEVING THE BURDEN. SPEECH,BY MR HOOVER. (Australian Press Association.—United Serivco.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. The naval disarmament negotiations were described by President Hoover in a broadcast address this evening as proposals “which would preserve pur national defences, yet would relieve the hacks of those . who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from the hate and fear which follow from rivalry in building warships.” This is the first time the President has mentioned the subject of disarmament in a public address since the negotiations between Britain and America began.