DISARMAMENT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 57, 1 December 1926, Page 11

DISARMAMENT

REPORT OF COMMISSION

CREATION OF PERMANENT BODY ADVOCATED

TO STUDY STATISTICS OF EACH COUNTRY

The Disarmament Commission favours the creation of a permanent bodj’, under the auspices of the League of Nations, to study the statistics of each country and see if the disarmament convention has been fulfilled. It also favours the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological warfare. BY Telegraph.—Press association Copyright. (Rec. November 30, 8.15 p.m.) Geneva, November 30. The Disarmament Commission report says the limitation of armament budgets does not offer a practical basis for limiting armaments. The Commission therefore favours the creation of a permanent body under the auspices of the League of Nations, to study the statistics of each country and see if the disarmament convention has been fulfilled. The report favours the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological warfare, but admits that such factories as dyeworks may quickly be transformed into poison gas plants, and that it is impossible to restrict the manufacture ’ of poison gases used for industrial purposes. The human clement is the most important factor in war, not only as regards soldiers, but for making war products, of which the most important are food, steel, money, fuel, nitrates, sulphuric acid, and india rubber. The report will be submitted to the Council of the League on December 6.