POWERS’ NAVIES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1933, Page 8

POWERS’ NAVIES

H jt ■ BRITAIN <J*.ND AMERICA. JAPAN SEEKS PARITY. LONDON. September 12 Japan is determined to press her rlairn for naval parity w?lh Britain and America. •It was learned to-day that -as ‘ a result of the United States’ naval building programme the Japanese are 'creating a nav 4 commission to examine the situation in connection wi‘h her bid for Anglo-American parity at the 1935 Disarmament Conference. The Japanese intend to prepare tb» strongest case possible, and they regaid their claim as incontestable. A report published in a London newspaper that, a naval conference bad been called as the result of the new build mg programmes of the United 'States and Janan, is flatly denied. Britain does not intend to intervene if only because the United RVates and ,lapan are fully entitled to build to the London Treaty limits. However. mov«l pressure must be exerted in the attempt to ’check the inception of a disquieting rare in naval armaments which would culminate in Jo pan demifading parity with Britain and lAimpvica add might lead to a deterioration in the relations between America and Japan.