London, Nov. 30.
In the House of Commons today, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty announced that Britai was building as much cruiser tonnage as was permitted by the London naval agreement, Dut was not building as much destroyer and submarine tonnage as allowed. In order to secure a steady building pro gramme, Britain, he said, preferred to retain temporarily a corresponding amount of existing tonnage in order to embody all improvements.—Reuter, The disarmament, situation was delicate, he said, but no member of the Government had in any way ost.hope and they were endeavouring, by every means possible, to achieve an agreement.
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