Sept. 22, "Why all this secrecy?" is a char= acteristic query in the editorial columns of the British newspaper to-day in regard to the "disclosure published in the "New York Ameri~ can,"" which, the London newspapers point out, merely re-echo what hes. already: been published, for example: the statement in the "Daily Tele raph" on September 3 to the effect: that the main points of the Anglo~ French) Naval Compromise were: that the numbers of submarines. under 600 tons and cruisers not. carrying guns over G-inch calibre: shall be unlimited, and that the numbers of smaller torpedo-craft. and other auxiliary vessels shall! also be unlimited.
Paris, Sept, 22. abears that the document, purporting to be copy of a letter addressed by the French Foreign Ministry to the Franch Ambassadors the chief capitals of the world which the "New York American" has unearthed, was so little regarded secret that, instead of being sent in code from' the Quai @Orsay, it was merely typed and multiplied on a duplicating machine. Besides the copies sent to the French Fmbasies in Washington, Rome, Tokyo and other ministries, it was also sent to the League of Nations at.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.