LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 2

LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.

Declared to be Impossible

Press Association—Copyright Paris, March 4. The Temps in an article asks what right had Sir H. Campbell Bannerman to affirm that it was possible in 1899 or now to arrange for a limitation of armaments. Since 1899 we have seen the Transvaal and Japanese wars and the Moroccan crisis. Compare the ideal with the stern reality, and you will measure the impudent confidence by which the responsible head of the British Government is carried away. It would bo wiser, the Temps says, to recognise that the Hague Conference should be the work of jurists, able to codify the laws of war. It is not to establish, universal peace. To expect it would be to create illusions doomed to grievous disappointment. Berlin, March 4: Gorman newspapers comment on Sir Hcury Campboll-Bauuorman’s article in a suspicious aud hostile tone.