ARMED FORCES
(British' Official Wireless) ' «*• • [
spaniards and czechs ' "outline'-'their * PPROP0SALS-1-DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
. RUGBY, Saturday. When the general discussion. in the Disarmament -.Conference.' was 'resumed, Don Luis de Zulueta, on behalf of the Sparrish ' dele'gation;- put "fol'ward a series1 of samendments with'U vi'ew to : strengthening the gbndraPcOnvetltion. ' ... The proposals included the abolition of 'aggressivd" armaments,' the limitation .of' war- stocks,- the international control of the manufacture of arms and ammunition, the abolition Of military- control^ and, - the limitation' of warships of over 10,000 toBS. The delegate also urged the publication of teach ^country's stoGks of war materials, the limitation of gun calibres to 203 millimetres; the limitation of submarine tonnage to 1,000 tons," with a limited range of- acti'on,' the construction of merchant vessels so that they cannot be fitted with armaments, the- abolition of military aviation and the' mt'eruational control of civil aviation. The G'zecho-SloVakian proposals were put forward 'bY' Dr. Behds and included the hcceptanCe as 'a whole of the draft convention and its obligations," the ' int'erchhnge ' by coUntries of armaments mformation, the eStablishmeh't "Of 'a PermEiheilt Disarmament* Commission; 'the' prbhibitiofi of chemical and ba'Cteriolo'gical' warfare, the prohib'ition of all f'ormS o'f offensive warfare, mbre espfecially aerial 'bombardm'dnt 6f Civil populatioris,' all these' measures ' to - b'e reinforced by a system of penalties. Czecho-SloYakia was willing to submit to the conferen'ce a lbw limit of armaments, a" minirtium ' conipatible with saf ety, if the oth'er natidns wefe pfepared to do the samfe. ' ' ' " :t«-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19320215.2.34
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 5
Word Count
242ARMED FORCES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in