London, July 17. Provisions of the London Naval Teeaty of 1936 were extended to Germany and Russia to-day when bilateral naval agreements between Great Britain and Germany and between Great Britain and Soviet Russia_were signed in London.
"The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anth-any Eden, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Me..A. Dull-Cooper, sign for Britain; Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, for Germany, and and M.
Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, and the Soviet Naval Attache for Russia, The treaties require ratification. They will come into force atthe same time as the London Naval Treaty and after the two ratifications, are exchanged.
The coming into force of the London Naval Treaty awaits the passing of the London Naval Treaty Bill alying authority to the British Government to. prohibit firms from building ships outside of treaty Limits and compelling them to give information to the British Government about orders for Foreign Powers, but that measure comes up for the second reading on July 20, and itis anticipated it will readily" pass through the remaining stages. France and the United States have already deposited their ratifications, and it wil) be necessary for the three Dominions concerned and the Government of India also to deposit ratifeations here.
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