LEAGUE OF NATIONS
(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) BRITAIN GAINS HER OBJECT. GENEVA. July 19. A British expert explained that though there will be a total tonnage limits for cruisers and destroyers taken together there will’, in addition, within the ambits thereof, lie also restrictions, by ratio, of the largest cruisers, and of the powerful ten-thousand ton cruisers with eight-inch guns, which the Uliitert States originally seemed to want to build in unlimited numbers. FurtFiermore, lie said, though the total tonnages were reduced, leaving out of consideration certain more or less obsolete ships in all three navies, their retention will be subject to special conditions, and there will be definite limits in the size and gun-power of ai’l the replacements. Above all Britain’s needs of large numbers of small cruisers for policing her trade routes would he safeguarded. LONDON. July 18. Sir .Josepr Cook (Australian High Commissioner) who has returned for a short visit to London, said that he was convinced the Geneva Conference would not separate without reaching an agreement.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1927, Page 2
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