Show BRITAIN MUST KEEP UP WITH FRENCH NAVY NAV Arms Parley Parler Rejection Is Deplored I In English Circles By Dy A G G EnglAnd's Greatest t Liberal Editor Spec In I Radio DIs to The Exa Copyright 1327 1921 Consolidated Press Frees Association LONDON Feb Much 19 1 Much dis- dis disappointment dis dis appointment Is expressed In lib liberal lib lib- eral CL-at and labor circles here at the reception given riven prest- prest President President dent Coolidge's proposal for Cor or fur Cur fur further ther limitation o of oC naval arma arma- armaments alma alma- armament ment ments The Th action ot of France Iranee however causes no surprise It shows that the position taken by Briand at the Vash con con con- conference ference remains unchanged and that any agreement to restrict construction ot of sm smaller ller craft will willbe willbe willbo be unacceptable For a n generation French naval avat policy has rested on the mosquito to types as a the th most favorable form of oC construction for Cor French purposes and anel th the enormous de development de- de ot of the possibilities of oC the submarine has as strengthened this doctrine ri rr NIGHTMARE Moreover the French position In regard to naval na power is at- at r Ceded by the th incalculable situation In Italy I taly and the extravagance of oC Dictator Mussolini's claims In la re- re regard card re-card gar gard 1 to supremacy in the tb Medi Mediterranean Medi- Medi But reactions on the th British poliCY are ar Inevitable for a 1 chan chan- channel channel chan chan- channel nel swarming with French submarines rifles rines Is a disquieting nightmare which largely explains the th growth of oC cruiser and destroyer construction construction tion lion Public opinion here her would re- re rejoice re joice It if Lord at the Washington conference for tor extending the ratio agreement to all cl classes ses ot of construction could be revived and established Sat Sat- Satisfaction Sat Satisfaction is 13 expressed that the apparent failure of oC tho the Coolidge e proposal does doe not affect Washing Washing- Washington tons ton's ton e Interest in ill the preparatory commission for tor disarmament conference con- con terence ference at Geneva Official circles circle preserve presence a fat fat- fairly ly Iy confident attitude with respect to China but the tb further failure of oC Foreign Minister Chen o ot of the Cantonese government overl ment to sign the proposed agreement perplexes and disturbs the public mind One view I is that this political strategy u controlled byM by lIL M Borodin the oviet Russian emissary who Is to any ny accommodation with Great Britain But the more rca rea- reasonable view is that Chen Is chiefly chief chief- chiefly chiefly ly preoccupied with the th Internal struggle with the th north and aid that he wants to compel recognition of oC C Cantonese nationalism as the only effective government In China In order to give his movement the prestige of an unparalleled diplo- diplo diplomatic matic victory Ictor freeing the country countr from all foreign control TOPPLES LES LESWith With Ule Uie th tall fall of oC Shan Shanghai hal Imminent Imminent neat nent the th consequences consequence of oC of that event are awaited with deep ani- ani let lety because ot of the possibility of oC oCa ofa oa a collision between a mob and the thi small mall tore force force now occupying the concession The labor attack In parliament on the governments government's policy Is a half hearted affair most of oC the labor leaders themselves agreeing that th the governments government In circumstance Stances Lances of oC the greatest creates difficulty Is acting with the maximum ot of o moderation consistent with the tb re- re responsibility for tor th the security of oC British nationals The Th Earl of ot nose bury emerged from rom a long retirement this we k with an attack on the th Lloyd Llod Gorge political fund with which the he former premier has captured the machine ot of o the liberal party lIe ask askS whether that fund rep rep- r represented tho the sale of oC honors honor by b Lloyd George during his premier premier- premiership ship and declares that It that was th waith he case cane it Is I a scandal unprecedented dented In tho the history of ot political since nine the days das of oC o Charles II 11 or Robert flobert Walpole Lloyd Georges Georfe semi official de- de defenso is that h he did only what other buthe party leaders have hao done dono but the accusation Is that ho did it on a ona scale never before attempted and hat bat ba 1 Instead of oC le the c cas In the of oC the riy p party he ho converted them Into auto a private fund which is being bell to promote his personal of ot political parties Lloyd George declines decline declines to say what Is the th magnitude of ot t the i und und but the th present estimate Is lIat It lt th the neighborhOOd ot of l Meanwhile the tho has completed the th lion tion ot of the part party the most st r leaders under Earl rl Grey E-Grey Grey totally having totally repudiated i d Lloyd George |