Tokyo, Apr. 19.
The Foreign Office here this afternoon sent instructions to the Sapanese delegation at the London Naval Conference, authorizing them to sign the Three-Power Naval Agreement. The decision to ap-Prove the draft text of the Agreement as prepared by the Drafting Committee of the. Naval Conference, now in session in London, whitty reached Tokyo this morning, followed a two hours deliberation of the loading officials of the Foreign Office, including the Foreign ter, Baron Shidehara. As the re-Bull of the deliberations, Baron Shidehara called on Mr. Hamaguchi the Premier, and sought his ap: Proval before sending final instruc tions to Londen—Rengo, tay be reached with the French ard Italian Governments at levels ch, will permit the incorporation of their programmes and figures in the agreement already reached between the three other Powers.
Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. A.
Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that under the rules for the replacement agreed upon at the Naval Conference, two ships of the "Hawkins" class' will have reached the age at which they night be replaced in 1934 and 1935, respectively. Tt had been agreed that the remaining two cruisers, the completion of which was delayed owing to the conditions following the War, might be replaced in 1936.
The Singapore Base Tokyo, Apr. 20.
Instructions entitling Mr. Wakatsuki, the Head of the Japanese Naval Delegation in London, to sign the Naval Pact on behalf of apan, were despatched to London this evening after the Pact had een carefully studied by the Pre-rier, the Minister for Foreign fairs, the Vice-Minister of the Navy and other high officials re-Bresenting both the Navy and the Foreign Office, Tt was not found necessary revise the text of the Pact.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.