UNITED STATES NAVAL PROPOSALS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 9

UNITED STATES NAVAL PROPOSALS

“NO CAUSE FOR ALARM” MODERATION STRESSED BY PRESIDENT Washington, February 28. President Coolidge feels that there is nothing in the modified naval programme likely to alarm other countries, but rather it will be regarded throughout the world as exceedingly moderate. The President holds that nothing further can be done towards sea disarmament bv agreement among the three leading naval Powers until the 1931 Treaty Conference. The present United States programme, being below the 300,000 tons of cruisers, which the American delegation set as a minimum at the Geneva Conference, and the British and Japanese held too low, will meet with the approval of Britain and Japan in the opinion of the President. In the meantime, the House Naval Committee has changed the Bill to read that all the sixteen vessels planned thereby must be laid down in three years, but not necessarily completed within six. A change has been made in the order. FIRST LORD’S REMINDER London, February 28. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, publicly pointed out that the Government had been charged with responsibility in America for the big navy programme. It was noticeable that it was greatly decreasing and had now almost reached what Britain proposed to the Coolidge Conference at Geneva.—“Times.”