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(Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.) U..S. VIEWS PESSIMISTIC. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 27. A belief in official circles that the Geneva. C-inierence will break up witli_ out agreement is strengthened by Sir A. ChamberlainVs speech. Officials are amazed at Chamberlain's reported statement that the Washington Treaty formula for battleships, which was quantity of tonnages was not applicable to email cruisers. An official stated that it' the British delegation at Geneva insists on this position the Conference failure is inevitable .They declared the. parity between the United States and Britain can be measursd only by the formula of tonnage for each (las- of ships as agreed at Washington Conference, and as presented in Mir Coolidge’s invitations to the Geneva Conference.
PACIFIC CONFERENCE. HONOLULU. July 27
Hall, an Australian delegate told the Pacific Relations Institute:—We are deluding ourselves when we say there is no chance ol war in the Pacific.
Eggleston oritiising a proposed treaty to abolish pacific wars, drafted by Prolessor Shot Well of Columbia University, declared a strong nation like United States could persuade Japan to sign, but a weak one like China could not.. He suggested disarmament of the I’uoific regionally and urged the Institute to consider it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1927, Page 3
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