§ 12 and 13. Mr. ELLIS SMITHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (1) whether it is intended to negotiate a bilateral Anglo-German naval convention on limitation and exchange of information and supplementing the naval agreement;
(2) whether he will make a report to the House on the naval negotiations; and is it intended that a qualitative Anglo-German naval treaty should be negotiated as a supplement to the existing Anglo-German naval treaty?
Lord STANLEYA general statement on the work of the London Naval Conference, 1935, was made in reply to a question by the hon. Member for South-West St. Pancras (Sir G. Mitcheson) on 4th February last. The technical sub-committee which was then examining definitions, etc., has since submitted a report upon those matters, and also a report upon qualitative limitation. The first committee, having considered these reports, has appointed a drafting committee to prepare the draft of a treaty with a view to signature by the participating Powers. It is our hope that similar agreements will be negotiated with other Naval Powers, these of course including Germany.