THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 2

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

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DISARMAMENT. LONDON, April 27. The “ Morning Post’s ” Geneva correspondent says: Striving to feign optimism the Preparatory Disarmament- Commission has closed. Hie constructive results aro chiefly the revelation of almost insuperable difficulties in the way of disarmament, or even of a limitation of armaments. Everyone admits President Coolidge’s three-power naval conference in July will largely determine whether tho League’s scheme of real disarmament will advance further at the next meeting in November. The President’s dosing remarks to-day hardly concealed his pessimism and disappointment. LONDON, April 27.

Count Bernstorff received pressmen after the conference closed, when he declared that disarmament was the League’s true role hut the various Governments’ instructions to their delegates showed little desire for aetua Idisarmament. Germany’s objective. he said, was not the stabilisation of armaments, hut a real reduction of the naval, military and air force personnel and material. GENEVA. April 20.

The Preparatory Disarmament Committee reached unanimity regarding the article undertaking to abstain from poison gas and bacteriological warfare and from the preparation for same in peace time, also prohibiting the importation, exportation, and manufacture of substances intended for chemical warfare.