No Delay Because of the Multilatoral Pact London, Auz. 11. red to-day by Reuter,.-C. Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty, emphasized that there was nothing' whatever in the report that the Singapore Base contracts were being held up in of the forthcoming meeting at Pai to sign the Kellogg pact. Me said that there had been no avoidable delay and no change or modification of policy whatever on the part of the Government, and the comin Paris meeting did not affect matter at all.
Mr. Bridgeman added that some} Vttle delay arose in the complet of the contracts owing to points between the Admiralty and the Treasury, but he said that these were now in process of set tlement and the scheme would pro coed as framed.—Reuter
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.