DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 6

DISARMAMENT

G’ENEVA'ARAIaToENT DEBATE. RUGBY, February 14. The political commission of the Disarmament Conference decided at Geneva to take as a basis of r discussion for all questions of security, the British programme of work introduced by Captain Eden, It ajso decided that th e first item of the agenda should be a clraf-t of th'3 declaration submitted by the United Kingdom delegation for signature, by European g-oveminents under the terms of which they are d tmi ned to fulfil not only in the letter but id o j in tlie 'spirit, th e . obligations which j they accepted under the Pact of Paris, | signed on August 27, 1928. They here-i by solemnly -undertake that they will not in any case report to .force for the purpose of resolving any present or future differences between them. BRITISH ARMS INCREASE. t LONDON, February 16. Tina “Daily Telegraph's” political correspondent affirms that th e next estimates fo r th 0 British Navy, Army and Air Force will show a total inerease of some millions. He says-: will b e impossible to repeat the cuts made last year. Unless further ,tsval construction is undertaken in this and succeeding years, the strength of the fieet. will fall to a dangerously low level. The cost of th e . Army, will be higher by a million.