NAVAL CONFERENCE
LIMITATION METHODS SOME PROGRESS ACHIEVED Itrttisb Official Wireless. (Received 13th February, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 12th February. The First Committee of the Naval Conference, consisting of the full delegations, met to-day to consider reports prepared by the sub-committee of experts on technical points arising out of compromise proposals on the global and category methods of the limitation of naval tonnage. An agreement is understood to have been reached on many points and it is expected that the Committee, after one or two further meetings, will be ablo to put forward a report to the Conference. It will then turn its attention to the question of the submarine, referred to yesterday, and will meanwhile submit the American and French resolutions put forward at yesterday's plenary sitting to a sub-committee whoso business will be to report upon the possibility of obtaining an agreement upon the abolition of tho submarine and, failing that, upon an international convention subjecting submarines to tho. same laws as apply to surface craft in time of war together with regulations regarding size.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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175NAVAL CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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