Conference Next Year London, May 25.
FFICIAL announcement was made here to-day that Great Britain has invited the other great naval powers of the world to conduct preliminary conversations in London for the purpose of improving the prospects of the 1935 Naval Disarmament Conference.
The announcement revealed that the purpose of the conversations would be fo reach an agreement among the five naval powers regarding the agenda, the exact date and the place of the conference.
Tt was authoritatively learned that the conference will probably be held in London in view of the fact that the United States is understood to be desirous of not holding it in Washington because the outcome is regarded, in many quarters as most dubious.
According to present plans, the preliminary conversations will be con-[ducted on a bilateral basis with each fovited nation conferring separately with Great Britain, Well-informed quarters here 2d-mitted that Japan was expected, to Jdenounce the Washington and London Naval Treaties during the course of the preliminary conversations, but they pointed out that it was necessary to bring all such developments to a ead por. tothe holding of the Na British informants emphasized that the bilateral talks would probably
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