AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. AJt.MAAI ENTS CONFERENCE. _ NEW YORK, .January It). '1 lie 1 liited Dross Tokyo correspondent states that the Japanese naval officials arc expecting another armament conference at Washington, and are laying plans accordingly. Wild discussion followed reports that President Coolidge "ill call such a conference within a year, and the Foreign Office will he prepared to send delegates with far greater freedom of action titan was thought possible at the time that the E.S.A. Congress passed the Japanese Exclusion Act. The political situation in Japan is much calmer in respect to the public attitufie towards America, and the Jingoistic elements, for the moment at least, ltavo gone into retirement. It is learned unofficially that the naval officials expect the agenda of the Washington Conference to include limitation of gun elevation, and particularly a limitation -of aerial forces. Japan has been led to believe that the United States and England have an understanding regarding the size of their nil- forces, and is, therefore, interested in the Kronen attitude, it is believed in Tokyo that aerial competition exists as between France and England. WASHINGTON. January 19. The United States Senate, by a vote of forty-five to twenty-two, refused to consider tho question of the elevation of the guns on thirteen of the United States battleships to , give them a range equal to the ships of Britain. The vote was taken on the demand of Senator AfcKellar, on a proposed appropriation to meet the cost of the elevation. Senator Hale. Chairman of the Navy Committee to the Senate, said that, it would he unable to take affirmative action white the protest of a foicign Government was pending.