Feb 16, Senator David A. Reed of Pennfaylvania to-day delivered a speech in London which was spread throughout the United States over: 4 radio broadcast and which indicated that the present Naval Limitation Conference has paved way for a saving of hundreds of millions of dollars to American taxpayers through a variety of mean:
Extension of the battleship build ing holiday will result in an economy of G.$400,000,000, he said. There has also been a paring down of the British cruiser demon Senator Reed said it is obvious that America must make concessions with reference to destroyers, Great Britain as regards cruisers and lis Japan as regards submarines, He added that the conference is working hard, and "when the results Mary amd "yen th rule "United Press. aes Detroit, Feb. 14.
Mr. Henry Ford declares that he conceive conditions under which he would be ready'to buy all the warships that are scrapped by the London Conference, or even all those that the navi of the world although he does not believe that this would end wai "You can't end war just by taking the weapons away" said Mr. Ford. "The only way to end war to teach the fellows who make! the profit that they can make more! profit in some other way."
Mr. Ford pointed out that one of his plants cut up boats bought from the United States Shipping Board a few yearsago and "it was profitable venture."—United London, Feb. 11.
In the House of Commons to-day, Lieut-Colonel C. K. Howard-Bury, Conservative member for Chelmsford,' asked if the' Australian Government had been consulted in regard to the latest reduction in cruisers and destroyers prior to the announcement of their reduction.
'The Premier, Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald, replied in' the negative. He said the Australian Government was fully apprised of the general consideration of the policy on which the decision of His Majesty's Government was based.
Lieut-Col. Howard-Bury asked whether Mr, MacDonald was aware of the great uneasiness and anxiety in Australia with regard to Singa-Pore and the reduction in cruisers and destroyers, The Premier replied: "As far as I am concerned, I am aware exactly of the opposite."
Asked whether his attention had been drawn to the Canadian re-Ports of an organized campaign by British millers against making pur-to develop trade with Canada, Mr. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal and "Minister for Unemployment," re plied by reading a statement from the National Association of Millers of Great Britain denying the reverts and declaring that they were rays anxious to purchase Cana dian wheat provided the _pricos approximated to world prices
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