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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930.

NAVY CONFERENCE sideration, but if each is equally meantime, as regards land and

OPENED.

| IMPRESSIVE SPEECHES BY THE POWERS' DELEGATES.

THE KING'S ADDRESS.

London, Jan. 21.

His Majesty the King loft Buckingham Palace for the House of Lords at 10.45., London auf fered one of Ils foggiest and blackest mornings of the winter, delaying and congesting traffic, Undeterred, spectators gathered on the route of the King's drive and the precincts of Parliament.

Elaborate arrangements were made inside the Royal Gallery for photographie and cinema pictures of the proceedings. Special,liglíts were alung from the roof, and platforms were rigged in the corners for the cameramen..

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thick that His Majesty's car was only able to proceed more slowly than a man walking.

The conference actually opened at 11.08 a.m. It was д plain clothes conference, notable for things absent, for example no trumpets sounding a, fanfare, no drums rolling, and to guard of honour with fixed bayonets, but a meeting in muftl of thirty repre sentatives of over 740,000,000 beings anxious for pence.

determined to make some sacri- air armaments. The way of Great fice as a contribution to the com-Britain is on the sea, its ng is mon good, I fool sure your doll- the flag of the sea; our navy is no berations will confer a great and mera superfluity to us, it is us; so lasting benent, not only upon the if this country can make a con- countries which you represent, tribution to peace which will be but also upon mankind' generally,

one of deeds as well as words, it must be as a naval Power.

"I earnestly trust that the re sults of this conference will lead to immediato alleviation of the heavy burdens of, armaments now weighing upon the peoples of the world, and also, by facilitating the future work of the League preparatory commission on dis- armament, basten the time when a general disarmament conference can deal with this problem in an even more.

nuan comprehensiva In this hope, I shall follow your deliberations with the closest interest and attention," -

nor.

The King spoke altogether five minutes, and his speech was then read in Franch. after which the King withdrew.

Mr. Stimson proposed that Mr. MacDonald be chairman of the conference. Mr. MacDonald spoke for twenty minutes, his into speech baing translated French, also Mr. Stimson's. Mr.

Stimson sat down" at noon.

PREMIER'S ADDRESS.

Conference to Break the Spell

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of National Fears.

"That is why, last June, Mr. Hoover, through his now: "Ambas- endor to London proposed to me that we explore our differences once more with a view to asking the participants in the Washing ton 1922 conference to reassemble and try to agree to‘equilibrium, to submit to a preparatory disarma ment commission at Geneva an agreement which can be related in a wider work and form part of the material for an eventual gen- eral disarmament conference,"

He concluded by hoping the con- ference would take its place among the great landmarks of advancement by mankind in win- dom and enlightenment,"

AMERICA & FRANCE.

Mr. Stimson Says He is

Profoundly Impressed..

Mr. Stimson' said he was pro- foundly impressed and moved by the speeches of the King and Mr. MacDonald, and was convinced that all the delegates shared the lofty idealism expressed in both speeches. He looked forward with confident hope to the success of their labours.

It was an auspicious event that the conference had opened in the Houses of Parliament, which for Americans would have a deep significance, as being the cradle of their jurisprudence and fundamen- tal ideas of human liberty,

Mr. MacDonald, after referring to the ardent satisfaction that The speeches were delivered in this should be the occasion for the following order.-H. M. the

His Majesty's first public speech on the King, Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Stim since his illness, dwelt son, Mr. Fenton, (Australia). Mr. universal burden of arms, and the Kalaton (Canada), M. Tardieu, manifold difficulties in the way of Mr. Chatterjee (India), Mr. an escape thereform, all mainly Smiddy (Irish Free State), Signor due to one source-lack of con- Grandi. Mr. Wakatsuki. Mr. Wil-fidence. "Generations of experi-" ford (New Zealand), and Mr.ence which fear uses to pen us

Mr. Stimson added that he did Tewater (South Africa).

up in the spellbound fastnesses of, not regard the present offört at militurism ought," by their disarmament as final, and sincerely failures, to enlighten us so that hoped an increased feeling of we can break the spell and sech security would enable a more dras- релее and security by other tie reduction in future, and pro- means. The whole world is turn-vide a tangible contribution to the ing its eyes to a to-day, and ex- wider problem of general die- pects that we Zeliberate and armament, which was America'o He was ready to negotiate on the assumption that, ultimate alin. having put our names to pacts of stay here "until we can give the world an "agreement that will peace, we mean to respect our

carry us happily to the time we signatures."

meet again, in the same spirit, to review the situation anew."

THE KING'S SPEECH.

Nations Seeking to Build

Edifice of Peace.

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H. M. the King, opening the con- ference, said:

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"It is with sincere satisfaction that I am present to welcome the To Arrest Competition.. delegates of the five principal naval Powers, assembled with the The world above all demanded object of eliminating the evil un agreement to arrest competi- results of wasteful competition inton, which had recently begun to naval armaments. Every nation show itself both in the types and represented here is proud of its the numbers of ships. If wo were navy, proud of that navy's past not careful we should once more achievements and inspiring tradi-be involved in feverish competi- tions. It is not the fault of these tion, such as horalded the out- traditions nor of our navies if the break of the war in 1914. competition in naval construction,

The French Viewpoint. M. Tardieu said the conference was going to attempt, with a grave sense of "responsibility, a decisive experiment in organising peace in the limited field of a limitation and reduction of naval armamenta. A solution could not be found by mathematical formula, because the

mulae, hence M. Tardieu, bad listened with great pleasure to Mr. MacDonald's affirmation that the first duty would be to $x the needs of each.

due to the supposed necessities of Mr. MacDonald proceeded stress of life shattered all for- polley, has led to a feeling of cutlino- the nature of the con- insecurity between nations, evenference's tasks, and referred to to the risk of war.

Since the the progress made in securing Great War, all the peoples are peace since 1919, including the determined that human statecraft Covenant of the League, the shall leave nothing undone to pre- Kellogg Pact, the entry of the vent' a repetition of that grim, United States into the Permanent immense tragedy.

Court of International Justice, and the increase of signatories to the Optional Clause, but absolute security of peace and justico "had maritime not yet been found, nations on a limitation of navel

"In the edifice of peace which we are seeking to build, one of its most important columns is the agreement between

Two Assumptions,

He emphasised that the League Covenant and Kellogg Pact had transformed absolute needs into needs only relatively Important. Each nation, however, had a dif- ferent standpoint, and was already in a position to consider its needs in relation to the growing serica ‚of guarantees. This was called the organisation of peace. The Lask now was to win the most beautiful of all victories over the past, namely the establishment of goodwill among the peoples. "We have the faith to achieve this vic- tory,"

OTHER SPEAKERS.

strength, and a reduction to a He emphasised that steps to point consistent with national wards disarmament must be inter- Becurity. Practical application of national agreements, subject to the principle of a reduction in review at reasonably frequent in naval armaments has, in the past, tervals. He affirmed that in the proved a matter of supreme dif- naval programmes of the leading Biculty. A great success was aval Powers there is a margin achieved in the conclusion of the between real security needs and Washington treaty in 1922, im- actual or projected strengths, and posing certain limitations on the the world expects this conference *|construction of capital ships and

to eliminate that margin. aircraft carriers, but hitherto ull efforts to advance beyond that point have failed. I believe that Two assumfitions would perhaps Italy and Japan Anxious to you, to whom your Governments smooth and shorten the work of have entrusted the high mission the conference; firstly, the dif-

See" Success Achieved. of ontluning the task begun at ferent needs imposed by geogra- Signor Grandi emphasised that Washington, are animated with phical position a world reapon- Italy would be aceond to none in singleminded intentions of working, sibility which meant points of her efforts to secure the aims of not with any selfish and exclusively attack in the event of war; second- the conference. The vast pro- nationalistic purposo, but with n noble inspiration and resolve toly, armamente naval and air gramme of work laid down by forces which must for practical Signor Mussolini for the progress remove, ance, and for all, this particular obstacle from the path purposes be discussed separately. of the country required a long of ordered, civilised progress. "If we are willing to make good period of peace for its execution.. the naval agreement now, when it Italy desired nothing better than "Lasting Benefit.”

comes to be reviewed a few years a peaceful Europe and a peaceful "All the nationa have varying hence, our attitude will depend on world. The hopes of her peoples

(Continued on Page 15.) schemes, demanding special con- what the other Powers have done,.

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