Washington Conference.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1921, Page 3

Washington Conference.

(From the Special Representative of the Australian Press Association.) CONFERENCE VIEWS. Received This Day at 11.30 a.m ) PARIS, December 1. The ‘ Petit Parisicnnc” Washington correspondent says apparently Lloyd George persists in expecting America will enter the convention guaranteeing France against attack. There is nothing more curious at home than influential Englishmen’s blindness. NEW YORK, December 1. The United Press Tokio representative was informed by officials that th* Japanese Government instructed Kato to stand firm on the seventy per cent ratio of naval armaments, regardless of the consequences. A high official declared Japan will not yield on tins vital point, even if it breaks up t e Conference. The correspondent thinks, however this is an extreme official view The press continues to reflect a strong .popular demand for a compromise parley.

A LENIN INTERVIEW. 'Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 1.

P. Christensen, a farm laliourer, candidate for the presidency at the past election interviewed Lenin for the United Press. Cabling from Riga, Chiistensen quotes Lenin's prediction of war between United States and Japan and admitting the Soviet c ommu...st.c programme has gone right to the bottom. Lenin eagerly questioned the interviewer regarding the possibility of »n Am-erican-Japanese war. On Christensen stating that Japan and America ueie friends and it was unlikely, Lenm insisted that capitalists would force war eventually, declaring “It is brewing now.” Lenin also was keenly interested in the feeling between America and England. Regarding the Russian famine Lenin declared they needed grain and the situation would be woisc as the winter progressed. Re alleged American farmers could send whoa am saying: “Feed our famine victims and we can put furs on your wives.’

SUPPORT OF PRINCIPLES. LONDON, Nov 30. A special correspondent at ton states the Plenary Session is non unlikely to be held before middle of next week, but it can be stated there is a| growing support for the principles regarding naval disarm, ment .and the Far East. Air H G. AVells considers that even in the bows of the ebb impulse, so splen didlv imparted, it is not dead, and the tide towards the world-organised peace will flow anew more strongly than ever. The “New; York .Tillies'’ says if Hon Llovd George came he would give a great life to the enthusiasm over the project of limiting armaments.