SIGNED BY REPRESENTATIVES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5

SIGNED BY REPRESENTATIVES

RIGHT OF SEARCH AND SEALED

SHIP'S SUPPLIES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COr-IMSBI.) UOSTRAMAN-NSW ZEALAND CABlg ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 24th January, noon.) - WASHINGTON, 23iti January.

Sir vAuckland Geddes, British Ambassador, and Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, signed the Anglo-American Liquor Treaty. : . ■'•■■:!'

NEW YORK," 22nd' January. 1 The "New- York Times" Washington correspondenti.says.that .accord has been finally reached between Britain and the United States regarding the Liquor Search Treaty, which will soon be signed, possibly within a week.

Senator W. E. Chilton and Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, conferred to-day with the Charge d'Affaires, and suggested certain minor changes in the wording hi the Treaty, which is believed to be acceptable to the. United States.

The Treaty, as Mr. Hughes originally proposed it, is known to be generally conserved in the present pact, the chief points being, that, America obtains the right to search suspicious vessels believ-. Ed to be rum-running within an hour's steaming of American shores, and British ships can enter American waters with liquor sealed.

It.is understood that similar troubles will now be subject to negotiation with France, Belgium, Italy, and Holland, with whom similar conversations already have begun. "-