Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is sending! invitations to the French, Italian} and Japanese Governments participate in the Five Power Conference on Naval Disarmament, ich is intended to meet in London in-the third week of January, 1980.
The United States Government Both the States Governments will submit the Conference details of their pre~ liminary proposals, The main features of these are: regarding destroyers, it is felt that agreemen* can be reached on the equality of displacement tonnage: concerning, submarines, Britain holds that they should be eliminated from warfare and the United States is willing to help: as regards cruisers, it has been proposed that Great' Britain should have 15 cruisers armed with and 35 with six-inch to whether the United States have 21-or 18 cruisers with eigh:- inch guns, It is suggested that she have 15 six-inch gun cruisers and her total cruiser tonnage' would be ether 315,000 or 300,000 tons while Great Britain's total cruiser tonnage) would be 239,000, The other Powers invited to thy Conference have been notified that a favourable result cannot be obtained without their full, sym pathetic ce-operation, especially the question of limiting the tonnage. of destroyers and submatines.—Reuter.
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