NAVAL AGREEMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1928, Page 5

NAVAL AGREEMENT

CANADA’S VIEWS. "United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) OTTAWA, October G. The Canadian press Paris correspondent obtained an interview at Paris with Mr Raoul Dandurant, Government leader in the Canadian Senate, who, with the approval of M,r Mackenzie King, explained the disarmament situation at Geneva. He said: “We cannot understand why an agreement should not he reached between two great English-sepaking peoples. Allowing that their fleets, instead of being opposed in naval competition should conjoin with the same desire of assuring the peace of the world. All statesmen at Geneva are looking with tnxious eyes to London and Washington as the League’s Preparatory Disarmament Commission must deal simultaneously with naval, land and air forces. It can only hope to do useful work if Britain and the United States agree on a formula allowing them to make an appreciable reduction of naval armaments.”

The interview concluded with an exposition of the League’s proposed draft convention, which will be submitted to members and non-members of the League and which provides for conciliation and arbitration of grievances. Dandurant said this goes one step further than the Kellogg Treaty.”