ARMAMENT CUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 7

ARMAMENT CUT.

"BIG PUSH" WANTED. Land And Air Forces Not Forgotten. GENEVA DEBATE. (Australian and ' X.Z. Press Association.) GENEVA, September 22. The Third Committee's debate on Lord Cecil's motion that it should consider limitations of materials, personnel and trained reserves, Army and Navy Budgets, also international control and enforcement of. a disarmament treaty, ended in a compromise. The mover withdrew the motion in favour of one advanced by M. Politis (Greece) with which Lord Cecil was satisfied. The British view is that her new "disarmament push" has served a valuable purpose and is by no means the failure which the emasculation of the original motion suggests. Lord Cecil said he believed he could actually have obtained a small majority if he had pressed his motion to a division. He would have received the support of all the Dominions, Scandinavian countries and ex-enemy countries against the Little Entente led by France. However, a narrow victory would not really have helped the cause of disarmament and might have embittered feeling and led to obstruction later. The new British efforts have focusscd attention anew on the people's general dissatisfaction with the lack of progress toward a real reduction of armaments and war material.

JAPAN'S VIEWS. REDUCTION WANTED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) TOKYO, September 22. The Japanese Cabinet has decided to instruct its Ambassadors at Washington and London to present Japan's views on naval disarmament. They are to urge a. lower cruiser parity to effect a reduction, not merely a limitation. Japan considers that the AngloAmerican conversations tend toward "an actual increase in conformity with the desired ratios.