TRAFFIC IN ARMS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS CON ference
FORTY-THREE NATIONS REPRESENTED
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Router’s Telegrams.)
GENEVA, May 4
The Belgian ex-Premier M. Carton de Wiarl, opened the League of Nations’ Conference on traffic in arms and munitions. at which 43 nations are represented, including four non-members— United States, Germany, Egypt and Turkey. After the formal business had been transacted the conference adjourned till to-morrow.
LONDON, May 6,
The Morning Post’s Geneva correspondent states JLhat the plenary session of Lite international conference on control of traffic in arms considered British amendments to the 35 Articles elaborated by the League Commission. The draft.' Articles stipulate that export licenses bo legal only as between government and government, and shall be illegal if for export to certain zones likely" to cause the. breaking of peace. It is understood America is anxious that China should be constituted such a zone, which may bring China into antagonism with Japan, which does a vast trade in arms with China. Japanese and American delegates indulged in an exchange of compliments with the intention of dispelling mutual distrust.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 6 May 1925, Page 5
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