DISARMAMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 3

DISARMAMENT.

AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. , POPE AND DISARMAMENT. WASHINGTON, August 28. The Aramement Conference continues to be the subject of interesting development*. The National Catholic Welfare Council of America has anounced that the pope approves of the Conference. The Association has revealed that the Pope, in his Peace Note of August, j 1917,' proposed the establishment of , the status quo ante bellum, and also | disarmament, but President \\ ilson sent a reply so discouraging that the Pope did not publish as he had intended, the details of his programme for disarmament . KOREA’S HOPES. NEW YORK, August 28. Doctor Rhee, th o Head of the sopalled Republic of Korea, has announced that he will bring before _ the Washington Conference the question of Korean inedpendenc. It is thought that Dr. Rhee's possible action will prove decidedly embarrassing to the Japanese delegates. LABOUR AND DISARMAMENT. NEW YORK, August 28. Mr S. Gompers has announced that if Labour is represented at 1l> 0 Washington Conference he will suggest that there be Labour members in all delegations at the Conference, also, and that they shall hold a sepirate con- , vernation to discuss. important international labour questions. STARVATION IN RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 29 A Russian wireless message states over nine million children are now starving. Prosperous provinces can receive only 48,000.