UNITED NAVIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7

UNITED NAVIES.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Suggested Fusion To Secure

World Peace.

DISARMAMENT PROJECT.

(Australian, and N.Z. Press Association.)

MONTREAL, October 7. The Paris correspondent of a Canadian newspaper obtained an interview in the French capital with Mr. Raoul Dandurand, Government leader in the Canadian Senate, who, with the approval of the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, explained the disarmament situation at Geneva. Mr. Dandurand said Canada cannot understand why an agreement should not be reached between the two great English-speaking peoples to p.llow of their fleets, instead of being opposed in naval competition, joining with the sole desire of assuring the peace of the world. All the statesmen at Geneva were looking with anxious eyes to London and to Washington. As the League's Preparatory Commismission on Disarmament must deal simultaneously with naval, land and air forces it could only hope to do useful work if Britain and the United States agreed to a formula which would allow them to make an appreciable reduction in their naval armaments. Mr. Dandurand explained the League's proposed draft convention, which will be submitted to members and non-members of the League, and which provides for conciliation and arbitration in grievances. He said this went one step further than the Kellogg pact.