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Show V f'i? V V a? S V 10. S. COFFK TELL GRUESOME STORYj ! BRITISH CITE CASTEX WORDS 1 0NSUBM11E i Writer Says His Country Has Means of Overturning Overturn-ing English on Sea QUOTED BY LEE Naval Experts Announce Completion of Report for Parley Committee WASHINGTON. Jan. 4- Taking note of the statement of the Paris Temps cabled to tho United States early this week, that one of fhe quotations quo-tations from tho famous Castex article ar-ticle read by Dord Dee of the British delegation to the Arms Conference Naval Na-val committee could not be found in the article, the Brklsh delegation today cited the quotation The quotation from the article by Captain Castex of the French naval general staff as read by Lord Dee was: "Thanks to the submarine we (France possess the instruments, the martaingale, whin will definitely and forever overturn the naval power of the British Empire." The practical completion of the report re-port to be submitted by the committee of naval experts to the naval committee commit-tee of the armament conference and agreement of the sub-committee on Chinese tariff on a five per cent effective ef-fective basis were two Important developments de-velopments today in the conference situation. The naval committee may be called to meet this afternoon or tomorrow, to-morrow, it was said, to receive the report of experts who will embody definition def-inition of the replacement schedules as well as the exact method of scrapping scrap-ping ships w hich are to be eliminated from the navies of the signatory powers. pow-ers. While the rate agreed upon by the sub-committee on Chinese tariff is the same as that provided in existing treaties, trea-ties, the fixing of five per cent as the "effective" rate is expected to result re-sult in a ch ar Increase of approximately approximate-ly 1 1-2 per cent to the Chinese government, gov-ernment, adverse exchange having re-diiced re-diiced thr existing tariff to about 3 1-2 per cent. |