HOPE NOT ABANDONED.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17978, 25 March 1930, Page 7

HOPE NOT ABANDONED.

“JUST WAIT AND SEE.” PROSPECTS OF NAVAL CONGF.ESS* FRENCH DELEGATION RETURNS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. —Copyright, (Received March 25, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. “We have not begun to salvage the ship, and cannot until it becomes a wreck. It has not officially become a wreck. It is still making progress, ■there are two meetings on the bridge this morning,” declared the British spokesman, when announcing that the British delegation had made a survey of the Conference and was receiving a survey by the Americans. The process would then he jointly continued. Tiie experts are still meeting, trying and hoping to reach some sort of a solution. The French delegation has returned. It has never given, any indication that it considered the Conference finished. M. Briand will probably he in London during the week, the whole of which is likely to 'be occupied by conversations. A plenary session is unlikely this week. It can only he held, firstly, if there is something to do towards success, or secondly, if that hope is abandoned. Neither contingency is expected to arise this week. Questioned regarding the Three Power Pact, the spokesman said if the French had gone, a Three Power Pact would have been brought appreciably nearer, hut that had not happened and It would not be negotiated in a Five power Conference. The only thing was to wait and see.