Pacific Pact.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1922, Page 2

Pacific Pact.

U.S.A. SENATE DEBATE

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WASHINGTON March 28. The Senate has approved, individual ! ly, of the 19 articles of the Naval j Treaty, dispensing with the reading of i the chapter relating to the execution ' of the treaty and other miscellanous provisions. The Senate will begin its voting on the Treaty at three o’clock on "Wednesday. So far no amendments or reservations have been offered. it is expected that the instrument will be ratified unaltered, and perhaps unanimously. NAVAL TREATY RATIFIED. WASHINGTON, March 29 The Senate ratified the naval treaty bv 74 votes to 1.

U.S.A. PACIFIC FLEET. NEW YORK, March 28. Tt is learned authoritatively that President Harding is likely to block the U.S.A. Navy officials in their plan to concentrate the entire American Fleet in the Pacific Ocean, the President believing that such a step would appear «. distrust of Japan, thus jeopardising any friendship engendered by the Arms ConferenceSome of the Navy heads are advocating eighteen battleships in the Pacific, instead of the present ten on the ground of economy, they pointing out that tho NfVyy'R fuel im4 P’ l pr duood-pn flw West- P&Y’M, ting trßß#oFfrtfai*! >