Suggested. Round Table Conference London, May 2.
At question-time in the House of Commons to-day, replying to a suggestion by Sir Robert Thomas (Liberal) that Britain should invite the United States to a round-table conference relating to the: Pacific with the object of achieving. a unification of policy: in. matters affecting the interests of the white races, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that the relations between Bri and America regarding the Pacific il] were based on the Washington Four-Power Treaty, to which France and Japan were also signatories, and this was likely to provide a better guarantee of peace than any bilateral arrangement, Replying to Rear-Admiral Beam-h (Conservative), who suggested that the cruisers Suffolk and.
Cornwall should visit South.
America en route to the Far East, Mr. Bridgeman said that arrange: ments were being made for the Cornwall to proceed to the Far East rid Australia, calling at vari ous Soath American ports en route, but it was necessary for the Suffolk to proceed direct to China in order: to relieve one of the cruisers on the:
Station which was required in Home waters as soon as possible—Reuter.
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