Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1903-05-06 | Page 1 | Not Yet Awhile

NOT YET AWHILE lE Nations of the Earth Barth Will WiM Not Ke Re Reduce duce Their The r Navies Navi Rome Borne R me May ay 1 th the t chamber of deputies f pu ties Ues today daY Signor Signer Int ted the government on OIL the report that tat t it Intended to propose to the government of Great Britain that negotiations be entered into int 1 wIth the view of arranging for tor A simul simultaneous I us reduction of or the navies bt of the th 1 I great fa t power I 1 ISi Signor Si nor BaUli under un r aT ary of f 1 state l sail S 11 the Brill HIU i j Mr Balfour and the tb secretary of f the j i British admiralty f Mr Ir ter re recently recently cantly declared that bat Great was ready rondy r to diminish her naval forces if It the tile other powers agreed to follow the same course cotas ctt but Great Britain had not yet definitely taken the initiative in the mat mattar ter tar and a nd consequently taken no DO action f The under secretory secretary of state added that if Great Britain proposed to take a deft definite nit nile step tep in the direction indicated Italy p would consider it to t be inopportune on the ground that while the other powers I bad Sad recently r b been en increasing the strength of their navies Italy naly had reduced her heri fleet Slid also o dt because f of s i l Position i the defense of distant nd In view f w of the great number j vt or Italians in foreign countries