No public announcement has yet been made of the terms
of the Anglo-French " compromise " over the preliminaries for another Conference on Naval Limitation.
Apparently the terms have been communicated to the Japanese Government, who, as we do not forget, were extremely helpful and reasonable throughout the unsuc- cessful Conference at Geneva. They are said to approve of the terms as offering good hope for agreement. Some mischievous person sent to a New York paper at the end of last week a clumsy forgery which purported to be a letter from Sir Austen Chamberlain to M. Briand making arrangements for naval plans which would be offensive to the United States. The New York editor was not clever enough to detect the falseness of the letter, but the denials have been so prompt and complete that little harm has followed.
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