LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1927, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON. July 24

Tim King gave an audience to Mr Bridgeman, .it is believed with reference to the Geneva negotiations.

A SURPLUS OF CRI’SIERS

LONDON. July 24

The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says: To-day’s meeting of tho Cabinet is a momentous one. Tlie AHnisters will have to make decisions defining the exact limits of British concessions to the American and Japanese naval standpoints. It may bo pointed out that the Brritiish cruiser squadrons in the Mediterranean have had to he gravely depleted in order to provide the cruiser force required in the Pacific Ocean in order to rope With tho Chinese dangers. That is where the adoption of the 12—12 —8 ratio for large cruisers might threaten British naval security, and the communications of the Empire, unless a. substantial surplus of small, but not neeessarly modern cruisers is conceded to Britain. Fortunntey the Chinese crisis happened when there was no danger of war in Europe. , Otherwise the British Fleet m the •Middle Seas would have been unduly weak. American opinion has failed to realise this.