Evening star., 1922-02-01
PARLEY DELEGATES
IN LIVELY DISPUTE
Ambassador JuSserand
Makes Reply to Lord Lees
Attack on French Views.

3, sudden fare-up over the subma-
rine issue between the French ana
English delegates to the Washington
conference was a feature of the meet
ing of the committee on limitation OF
armament of the Washington con-
ference yesterday afternoon at "hich
the naval limitation treaty was ap-
proved for submission 10 the con-
ference today.
In the discussion yesterday, Am
hassador JusSerand took the lead Tor
the French and Lord Lee Tor the
British the former bringing the SUB
ject to the fore by announcing that
he had received information from
France to refute Lord Lees previous
charges that a naval article by Capt.
CaStex of the French navy seemed Z"
indicate a French policy of unreStrlct-
ed submarine warfare
Notes Lord Lees Omission.
NJ Jusse@and declared Lord Lee
had omitted to say that Capt Castex
concluded his argument on subma-
rines by the words the Germans
argue in this way" Therefore. the
amba Ssafor contends. the article in
question had been cited in manner
not quite fair to France. Moreover.
he added, the subtitle, character of
the German Submarine Warfare. had
been omitted when the article was
referred to. He asserted shat CasteN
was only a lectureF at the staff or
ganiZation school. while the real
views of France on submarine war
fare had been clearly expressed by
responsible men like Commander Vim
cent, opposed to German methods.
Arthur J. Balfour, the ambassador
continued, had said that Great Britain
won the fight against submarines and
that if war came again the burden
would be upon Great Britain, which
had 1876 anti-submarine craft during
the war.
In reply to that NJ. Jusserand point
ed out that from the beginning of the
war many French marines had Deen
mobilized to fight in Flanders and AL
SAGE, but. when submarine warfare
was declared by Germany, France had
turned her attention to the submarine
danger AS a matter of fact. the am
bassador said. the French mobilized
as many as 300 anti-submarine craft,
and not PSI. as Mr.. Balfour had said.
Lord Lee Defends Claims.
Lord Lee replied to the ambassador
enter into new discussion, but
thought he could support the view
that the general meaning of the Cas-
tex article was as he had originally
described II. furthermore, LORD Lee
recalled that the British effort to
abolish submarines had been opposed
by France. and that this was to bring
upon Great Britain a heavy burden.
He did not wish to make a contro-
versial reply. but declared with some
feeling that Great Britain had shown
good faith. She had offered France a
treaty as a guarantee of the situation
in Europe, he said, and he suggested
that no further word be uttered that
might make the situation worse. He
believed it better to go forward to-
gether as friends and allies in the re-
construction of the world.
In a rejoinder Ambassador JuS-'
serand said he was glad of the last
words of Lord Lee, which he was
certain would create widespread I'M
preston, but was not in accord with
the British spokesman's declaration
that France was imposing burden
of submarines upon the world. All
the nations except Great Britain, the
ambassador declared, wanted to main
tain submarines, fact, he said. when
should be remembered in connection
with the general tendency to mis-
Judge France often during the de-
bate.