NAVAL PATROL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 8

NAVAL PATROL

PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE REQUEST TO BELLIGERENTS (tolled Press Assn.—Elec. TeL CopyrlfM) PANAMA, Sept. 25 Several of the delegations to the Pan-American Conference are reported to be in favour of a cooperative naval patrol of American waters. lhe Panama City correspondent of the New York limes says that Foreign Ministers at the conference \ will urge belligerents to refrain from hostile actions, including the search and seizure of vessels m American waters south of the Canadian border. They will provide by consultation means to enforce the compliance ol those unwilling to agree. This is likely to be the conference’s most important action. Details are still in aoeyance. The Cubans. Chileans and others have plans ranging from tne three-mile limit to halfway across the Atlantic and Pacific. The actual distance is less important than the long-range implication of such an upset in traditional freedom of the seas. Partisans argue that belligerents are not right to interfere in purely inter-American snipping and must reserve searcnes and seizures of vessels to zones outside the lines travelled by Pan-American ships.