VETO ON SUBMARINES

Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 5

VETO ON SUBMARINES

THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL ITS IMPORTANCE DOUBTFUL. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. PARIS, February 5. The Press describes Mr F, B. KclJo (r(r ’s suggested abolition of submarines as°livpocntical and egotistical. It is pointed out that the United States joined Franco and Italy in opposing the British suggestion at the Washington Conference, and tho newspapers consider that the change in the American view is only intended to make their own public believe that America would have disarmed long ago if Europe had been willing. Apparently it has been forgotten that neither the United States nor Britain would allow anyone to touch its battleships, cruisers, and destroyers.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A BRITISH COMMENT. LONDON, February 6. The naval correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says it is not wise to attach much importance to Mr F. B Kellogg’s submarine declaration. In the last six years Japan has laid down, or authorised, fifty submarines, while the United States built only six; consequently the inhabitants of the Pacific Slope have come to the conclusion that the submarine is the only fighting ship able to carry war to the American coast. The diplomatic correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ however, is of the opinion that Mr Kellogg has satisfied himseli that Japan is prepared to abandon the submarine if the other Powers are willing to do likewise.—A. and N.Z Cable.

[Mr Kellogg on Saturday advised the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives that _ the United States Government was willing to sign a treaty with all the Powers prohibiting the use of submarines entirely.]

FRENCH PRESS CRITICAL

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

PARIS, February U.

(Received February 7, at 1) a.in.)

“ Mr Kellogg is wasting bis time," says ‘ Quotidien,’ in pointing out that the submarine is the only weapon with which small countries with small navies can defend themselves against dreadnoughts and cruisers. If Mr Kellogg’s proposal were accepted he would gain a signal triumph in clearing away the last obstacle to the tyranny of the seas dreamed of by American imperialists.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.