NAVAL LIMITS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1929, Page 4

NAVAL LIMITS

; U.S.A. • ATTITUDE. : , (United Press Association —By Electric . . • Telegraph—Copyright). \i •! WASHINGTON, .June :29. Suggestions made', by 'the United '• States Government to M Great , Britain ‘,a : on the naval disamameht question will be approached with caution. In'view of. the present status, of‘"the,)problem there is a feeling of uneasiness in offi- ' cial circles’ here, that a conference of V v the naval powers might result in a ‘ failure -without sufficient preparations. . , : That the United States has been' . . ; informally sounded out’ by Great Bri- ( i»v ./ tain became known on Fridaj r night \ on its attitude towards,a cpnfererice ‘> f of the principal naval powers., either separate from the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament’" Commission >V .or under the League’s 'machinery. ;V.. -r , v U.S.A. ADAMANT. '‘t • ,>/ * ! FRANCE MUST PAY UP. ,’ || t'U. LONDON, June 29. v S/ . ■ ; America has Refused the French '• . Government’s request for the post : ' . ponement of payment of:her urgent -, debt to America of eighty million ster- : :'i “»g-V : -v--; WiM Tho French Cabinet has been sum- ' ' moned to meet-immediately. . ? /.A political” crisis is feared.;