Paris, Apr. 1.
Political quarters are becoming resigned to the prospects of an early collapse of the Five-Power Naval parley which, in fact, anticipated for Friday of "this week, The special correspondents of the French papers who are in London watching the Conference, animously report that ference circles the last hopes of! success are vanishing quickly and that even M. Briand who hitherto always shown studiously optimistic, now despairs of result However, the press bel 'a Three-Power Pact will eventual ly be negotiated if only in order to save appearances and, as the "Petit Parisien" complains, to fix the responsibility for the failure of the Conference on France though the blame, according to this news-Daper, rests with Italy and also th "Great Britain whose - conception of diplomacy at the Conference was apparently confined to the unending repetition of the phrase that she will not increase her commitments. Generally, the papers assert, it would have been comparatively easy to find a formula within the limits set by the League of Nations to guarantee to France that additional security which she it demanding in return to a-reduction of her naval tonnage. Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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