of Treaty
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Pacific Naval
Bases
What May Follow Expiry of Treaty
EXPERIENCED commentators in Britain and America state that if there is to be no renewal of the Washington Naval Treaty (which expires on December 31), and if the 15 years’ embargo on the develop ment of naval bases in the Pacific is to be abandoned, naval events in the Pacific in 1937 may be rapid and significant.
Under the Washington Naval Treaty, Britain, America, and Japan mutually’ agreed not to build naval bases within a certain distance of each other’s territory: and this agreement has been scrupulously observed for 15 years.
It is regarded as certain that if the agree ment is not renewed the three countries concerned will make a rapid and intensive survey of their various Islands territories with a view to seeing how best to streng then their respective naval strategic posi tions in the Pacific.
Dr. G. H. Vernon, of Daru, Western Papua, arrived in Sydney by the Changte early in September. During his brief visit to Sydney, the doctor is taking the opportunity to undergo a medical over haul.
Mr. F. W. Mantle, of the New Guinea District Services Department, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul after a holiday visit by the Nellore on September 12.