London, Mar. 6 Swift progress is being. made with the final stages of the Naval. Conference. "The French and American delegations to-day agreed to a battle ship formula, enabling the drafting committee to conclude its work forthe 'The formula provides for a 35,00- ton battleship with I4-inch. guns, but eclates that, if the treaty" is' not signed by sll the Washington Powers by the end of the year, the signatories wilt Fevert to I0-inch guns. "Thus, the size of guns depends principally Japan.
Viscount Mansel, First ord the Admiralty, and Ar. Norman Davis, chief of the American delegation, are ow conferring on so-called escape clauses. former has suggested that the Treaty should-be void in three events 1, In case of war, 2 At a contracting party. violates the treaty.
3. It'a'non-contracting party ceeds the limits of the Treaty. in BE, Davis profers more define issue is being further discussanwhilo, talks between Britain and Germany are proceeding hopefully, while conversations between Britain and Russia are expected to commence now that Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, has returned from Geneva—Reuter, Accord on Battleships London, Mar. 3, French delegates at the naval cen~" ference to-day accepted the limits of 35,000 gross tonnage for battleships and fourteen-inch guns, thus removing, the nal technical obstacle to an Anglo-Franco-American naval treaty which would permit the building of an unlimited number of ships within the tonnage limits unfit the end of 1940—United Press,
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