Efforts are still being extended overcome the difficulties that face the London Naval Conference end, although there were fewer' conversations to-day, a more hop ful view of the situation than the which was expressed last night persisted.
Tt is recognized that the immediate obstacle to progress is the French insistence that the, Italian claim to fu naval armaments is not justified, and special interest is attached to the fact that M. Briand, the French Minister for Foreign A\ long talk with Signor Gi head of the Italian delegation, this afternoon. M. Briand will report the position to the French Premier, M, Andre Tardieu, who is dae arrive in London to-morrow night.
M. Briand, the French Foreign Minister,"and Signor Grandi, the Italian Foreign Minister and head the Italian delegation to the: Five-Power Naval Conference, conferred alone to-day for a whole hour; in which connection there was extreme eagerness, as the chiot immediate interest' centres on the deadlock between France and Ital Signor Grandi afterwards declined to reply to journalists, but M. Briand fed that no. progress had been made.
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