AMERICAN CABLE HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE HEWS

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OPINION ON BRITISH NOTE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEAV YORK, May 21. The New York “Times” Washington correspondent states the reservations contained in the British Note replying to ATr Kellogg’s outlawry of war proposal will necessitate further negotiations in order to reach mutual accommodations. There is some disappointment here that the note did not contain a more sweeping endorsement of Afr Kellogg’s positon, for a simple, unqualified declaration against war. The State Department declined to make any final comment to-day. but Mr Kellogg continued optimistic, asserting he was much encouraged, and real progress was being made. British support of the article of the French counter draft has been opposed from the first here as something that would vitiate the entire treaty, and the hope was held out to-day that by siding with France on this question Britain had gone only to the extent of stating preference from which she might he induced to recede. Article ten of the British reply is held here to refer to Egypt and the Suez Canal. Both are recognised as vital to the defence of the Empire, yet fears are entertained that the incorporation in the proposed treaty of any such reservation mightgo far to sap the treaty's vitality. The first reaction was*tliat possibly this point might he taken care of hy an unilateral declaration by Britain when the treaty is signed, concerning the reservations earlier proposed by France and suhseuqently declared unnecessary by Afr Kellogg. The indications were that Britain was inclined towards a joint note setting forth interpretations, it Was felt that to meet the wishes of Britain, however, that this formal declaration shall have equal value with the treaty itself; that such note would really he a supplementary treaty requiring ratification hy tlio American Senate and therefore a useless expedient in that the interpretations might he included within the treaty itself. There were indications that although officials declined to predict wliat course would be adopted, that an effort would be made to amend the Kellogg draft in some simple form through a broad statement in tlie treaty or by a protocol, in the way to cover the common interpretation without in effect vitiating the compact. One important aspect

of the note from the standpoint of tho liritish Empire was not only the announcement that the Dominions and India favoured the outlawry of war project hut a request to have them as Governments sign a multilateral treaty. Mi- Kellogg immediately made known that invitations would he sent to them. He did not know definitely whether a separate arbitration treaty would be negotiated with Canada at the time the pending one (cabled on loth May) is signed with Britain. endurance swimmer. NEW YORK, May If). At Arrowhead Springs, California, Kyle Austin, a seventeen-year-old girl, on Saturday set a world’s woman’s endurance swimming record of thirtytwo hours twenty minutes.