DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1932, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

CONFERENCE OPENS

(United Press Association. — By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

GENEVA, February 2

In opening the Disarmament Conference, it he President, Rt. Hon. A. Henderson, declared that the Conference's task was, firstly, to reach an agreement or a programme of practical proposals to secure speedily a substantial reduction and limitation of all national armaments ; secondly, to determine that no armaments be ma-in- • tained outsider the scope 'oi that treaty; [thirdly, to plan a continued advance 'towards the ultimate goal, without (detracting from the present effort, by agreeing to similar conferences at reasonably short intervals. They must break up the vicious circle of armaments, and the problem was vitally relevant to the world’s financial and economic crisis.

A DEMONSTRATION

LONDON, February 3

Seven thousand persons, of all creeds, after the singing of appropriate lrpnirs, ..■load '» silent prayer at the AVbert Hall following on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s address to a demonstration organised by churches in favour of disarmament.

The Archbishop of York, and twenty Anglican Bishops and priests and clergymen of other communions, also Chief Rabbi Hertz, occupied the platform.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said that Britain entered the Disarmament 'Conference with a good record, which gave her the opportunity of so directing matters that armaments might bo reduced to what were necessary for tho purposes of defence. All aggressive weapons, .and particularly all bombing planes, and also submarines should he eliminated.