DISARMAMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1921, Page 3

DISARMAMENT.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMANY AND DISARMAMENT. LONDON, Oct. 12. Tlio “Times” iignin draws attention to wlmt it terms a. German evasion of the disarmament terms. This time, it states, it. relatives to aircraft-. Inl'oration lias been secured to the effect that, though many Gorman aeroplanes have been surrendered, thousands of the host engines have been hidden and are easily accessible. The “Times” complains German aircraft manufacturers are capable of making 100,000 metal aeroplanes, constructed of light alloys, of remarkable strength, in a very short time. The “Times” urges immediate plans to prevent any expansion of the German fleet- I>y foi bidding Germany to possess any civil aircraft with a flight range of moro than three or four hundred miles, or with power to rise quickly to fighting height. It also urges constant vigilance by Allied statesmen and officials.

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(Fcceivcd This Dav nt 0.40 n.m.-) WASHINGTON, Get. 12

SiiiiuUeneoiisl v with tile nssemblnfi „f Amerienii dclegntos nt Wushj.iKt.in for the Conference, President TTnrclniK has i.nblished a letter, which is regarded as an ufl’urt to stem the owing pro|;aganda for ecmiplete abolition of armaments. One hundred letters favouring such a stop lnnf I men received by the President who answered the women’s letter, which urged that he should work for total dis'irmament by declaring for a reasonable limitation. A woman asked tor an explanation of the term. “Reasonable limitation.’ The President’s reply, which is published sii vs : “By reasonable limitation, I mean something practicable, which there is a chair e to accomplish rather than the ideal, which there will bo no (;hait<v to realise. It is iu'O’ss'iry to cion 1 with actualities. Universal di<nrmnmont would Ik* hovond hope of r<,;i1i ant ion. and oven its desirableness sit this time ini.nlit be questioned. 'I wo thiuuumd years of history suggest tlmt hiiinnn nature would require arv reorganisation to make universal disarmament possible. (onsideration of tin* present state of the world must * ?tf« rce the conclusion that this time is not hopeful to undertake that kind of revolution. On the oilier hand the world \> staggering under a load oi debt and armaments, which has justified our hope for a favourable attitude toward a practicable effort. Vie are attempting to undertake the impossible, and if we fail we might leave our last state worse than the first. The attitu ie of the nations warrants tin* confidence that We shall not fail, but that substantial results v.ill he accomplished, calculated to lessen the armament burden and reduce the danger of armed conflict