NAVAL CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 6

NAVAL CONFERENCE

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(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Ala. roll 24

“We have not begun to salvage ship and cannot until it becomes wreck. It lias not officially become a wreck. It is still making progress. There are two meetings on the bridge this morning,” declared the British spokesman announcing the Biritish delegation had made a survey of the Conference and was receiving a survey by Americans. The process would then be jointly continued. E>{ports are still meeting, trying and hoping to io. n s;,ir > sort of a solution. The French delegation lias returned. It has novi in {."ivbn any indication that it tonsil' red i.,.e Conference finished. M. Ln..;i‘-i will probably lie in Loudon during the week the whole of Which is likely to be occupied by conversations. A plenary session is unlikely this week. It can only be held firstly if 'there is something to do towards success, or secondly il that hope is abandoned. Neither contingency is expected to aii.se tins week.

Questioned regarding the Three Power Pact, the spokesman said if the French lmd gone, the Three Rower Pact would: have been brought appreciably nearer,-unit that had not happened. It would not lie. negotiated in a Five Power Conlerenee. The only thing was to wait and see.