SUBMARINES IN WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 9

SUBMARINES IN WAR

QUESTION OF ABOLITION DISCUSSION IN COMMONS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright RUGBY, Thursday. The rdeent declaration by the United States Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, that his Government would be prepared to sign a treaty with all the other Powers prohibiting the use of submarines in warfare, was the subject of a question in the House of Commons to-day. The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. G. T. LockerLampson, replied that the views of the British Government in favour of a general abolition of submarines were made known at the Washington Conference of 1921, and repeated by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, at the Naval Arms Limitation Conference at Geneva last summer. They were threfore familiar to the United States Government. It was, of course, an essential condition, as was Indicated in Mr. Kellogg’s declaration, that the abolition must be universal. Asked whether the matter was going to be brought up at Geneva at the end of this month, Mr. LockerLampson said he did not know, but the British Government was perfectly ready to reaffirm the declarations it had already made at Washington and at Geneva.—A. and N.Z. TENDERS FOR SINGAPORE LONDON, Friday. The British Government has invited several firms to tender before March 31 for the construction of wet and dry docks at the Singapore naval base. The estimated cost is £4,000,000. This will be partly borne by the Dominions over a period of seven years. There will be a separate contract for armament workshops, but this will not be begun until the dock work is fully in progress.—Sun Cables. NEW SUBMARINES LONDON, Thursday. The Vickers-Armstrong Company has received an order from the Admiralty for four submarines of the P class. Two others are being built elsewhere. —A. and N.Z.