THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] RUSSIA’S ENTRY. LONDON, March 26. Well-informed circles consider Rus'sea’s participation in the League’s plenary conference on armaments practically is now a certainty, in veiw of M. Motta’s.assurance that if RussoSwiss relations cannot he restored then Switzland will not, consider it front if the conference is held outside Geneva. The French, the Poles, the Czechoslovaks, Jugo-Slavains, and the Baltic States regard the Seviet's participation as being imperatively necessary, as etherise a disarmament treaty would be futile. BRITAIN'S LAND FORCES. LONDON, March 26. Spefcking at tbe Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, Lord Cecil stressed the fact that the British Army was different from the Continental armies, it being purely a defensive force, composed of volunteers. The British Government, therefore, had no interest in the limiting of land forces. Its only aim was to "assist in establishing a system that was adaptable to other States.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1927, Page 2
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