Statement in Commons on Anglo-U.S, Agreement Co.'s Pootung Installation from where she is to proceed to the Holt's Wharf sometime tomorrow. She leaves this port on or about June 10 for Hongkong. Philippine Islands, Jan Straits, Colombo. Cape of Good Hon: Atlantic ports and" New Chile Arrives London, June 5
An agreement has been reached between Great Britain and the United States on the size and gunpower of future battleships, states the Naval Correspondent of the "Sunday Times," who understands that an announcement on the subject will be made in the House of Commors next week in the course of a general state ment on battleship building.
British and American experts are said to have agreed that future capital ships must mount guns of 16-inch calibre, for which rican design ers require a tons and British desi Conferences have been in between British and American naval experts ever since the two nations inva aliter Clauge of the London Naval Treaty.—R
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