NAVAL CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 5

NAVAL CONFERENCE

THE SUBMARINE QUESTION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, March 6

The Naval Conference Expert Committee continued tlie discussion of the submarine problem eliciting the interesting viewpoints that Britain is willing to accept, ns a basis of discussion the maximum figure suggested at Geneva, namely eighteen hundred tons. Italy agreed to this but the Japanese demanded two thousand. Franco would accept the figure agreeable to.other Powers if she were permitted to retain a.' certain number ol submarines up to three thousand tons. Britain and America would compromise on 1100 thousand tons, provided there was only one class of submarine, none of which would exceed that figure. Italy also agreed that there should be but a single class. It is pointed out that the French proposal favouring three thousand tenners would create a new category, which could be numbered individually like cruisers, thereby providing a super submarine apart from the smaller ones included in global tonnage.

TAXATION ON FOOD

MR CHURCHILL’S LETTER.

LONDON, March 0

Mr W. Churchill has Bent a letter to the Conference as follows:—“I always opposed to protect protective taxation on food for the purpose of a United Empire because if it were imposed a single party would be liable for violent reversals most dangerous to imperial concord and the unity of the Empire would foe brought into the whirlpool of party politics, instead of being lifted above our domestic quarrels. Mr Baldwin’s course commands my earnest support. It is the only way of effectively advancing Empire economy or a fiscal unity.