He would be glad, he said, to get further help from other parts of the Empire, and so would the taxpayers of Britain, but in any case he thought they were right, and he thought Australia was right, in pushing on the construction of up-to-date cruisers, because Britain was getting very far behind, and was not Teading' the race in competition with other naval Powers, who began long before Britain.. In'any case it was very satisfactory to know that Britain had a programme laid down covering a number of years, which eventually would produce a fleet of the most up-to-date cruisers possible.
He added that, in the event of total disarmament, the question would be totally different, but while other countries kept up modern and it was still essential do the same.
The Disarmament Conference Mr. G. L. T. Locker-Lampson, the Under-Secretary of State for Home Affai in the believed that the postponement of the preliminary disarmament conference was due to a wish that Germany should participate in the conference as a member of the League of Nations and a hope that. by a short delay the present obstacles to the participation of Russia would be removed—Reuter.
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