NAVAL CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1929, Page 5

NAVAL CONFERENCE

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). DOMINION REPLIES. LONDON, Sept.' 30. A wireless message from the liner Berengana says that the final communications have been received fiom the Dominions regarding the question upon which will depend tile invitations to the Five. Power Naval Conference. The way is now clear for the invitations to be sent to the delegates to attend such a conference at London in the middle of January. FRANCE’S DEMAND. • LONDON, Sept. 30. The Daily Express special correspondent aboard the ' Berengaria understands that one of the difficulties which -Ur MacDonald and President Hoover have to meet i 3 the new French claim that ,for the purposes of naval tonnages, the French colonies will rank equal with the British Dominions. Furthermore, France wants the same Mediterranean naval strength as Italy, which is concentrating on fast cruisers. AMBASSADOR DAWES. RUGBY, Sept. 30. General Dawes, American Ambassador, will to-morrow visit Sudbury, in Suffolk, where ’lie wiljj (receive the freedom of the borough. His ancestor, William. Dawes, left Sudbury in the year 1629, with eight hundred others from the district, as Pilgrim Fathers. A parchment conveying the freedom will be handed to General Dawes in an oak sixteenth' century cofer, bearing on one side the borough’s arms, and on the other a three-masted sailing ship. NEW YORK RECEPTION ELABORATE PROGRAMME. ___ I NEW YORK, Oct. 1. Mr Stimson (U.S.A. Secretary), Sir Esme Howard (British Ambassador), and other notables will meet the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald and party here on Friday morning, escorting the visitors to the City Hall, where Mr MacDonald will receive a key of the city ,after which they will depart for Washington by special train. An elaborate programme of lunches and dinners has been arranged for Mr MacDonald’s stay in New York, lasting from the 11th. to the 13th. October. ' He leaves for. Canada on October 14th.