Washington Conforence.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1921, Page 2

Washington Conforence.

MTSTH AM AN AND N t-Ani.i. Ci)N FER ENCE DF.I.K( IATES LONDON, October 18. Hon. Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, ’stated he hoped to go to Washington as soon as tho Parliamentajry gfeneiral situation rendered it possible!. The British ambassador at Washington would act in his, or any other delegate's absence. General Smuts ha» decided to leave South Africa’s interests in the British representatives’ hands. Lord Beatty will he the senior naval expert; Lord Cavan military expert; and, Marshall Higgins, air expert. FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS, .Oct. 18. The French Chambers have reassembled. M. Briand (the Premier) in a statement as to foreign policy, declared that his aim was the Maintenance of peace. He denied the assertion that France’s military position had been in anv way weakened. The mobilisation of the 1919 class of reservists had filled the gaps in the French forces. Ho declared that he would only go to the Washington Conference if the Chambers expressed confidence in his peace policy hv a substantial majority. If a powerful minority disagreed, then others might carry out another policy which he considered disastrous.

ITALY AND CONFERENCE. ROME, Oct. 19. It is announced that* Signori Faretta and Sohanzer have been appointed the principal Italian delegates to the Washington Conference. AMERICAN VIEW. (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. October 19. An effort to obtain an abrogation of the Auglo-.Japanese Alliance; will he made at the Washington Conference, the American Government being utterly opposed to a military edmpact between Britain and Japan. It even considers the Alliance a menace.