BOMBING FROM AIR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 543, 29 May 1933, Page 5

BOMBING FROM AIR

(Press Assn.-

OUTLYING TRIBES TO DERIVE SOLE "BENEFIT" CONFERENCE SARCASTIC

-By Telegrapli — Copyright).

Rec. May 28, 11 p.m. Geneva, May 28. The British proposal for complete abolition of aerial bombers except for police purposes in outlying district regions was accorded its first reading at the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference, but the reservation produced a storm. The opinion was sarcastically expressed that the intention was to reserve police bombing for citizens within a country's own frontiers, and it was wondered why remote regions were to enjoy the fruits of civilisation in r which those nearer a metropolitan area were not to participate. Among others condemning Jbombardment was Mr. Koo, who instanced China's own suffering as the result 1 of foreign raids. Mr. Wilson, U.S.A. declared that America considered that abolition 1 must be absolute, unqualified and universal. "We mnst," he said, "capitalise the growing conviction that bombing is a crime and that any exception would violate, that moral force." Herr Nadolmy said that Germany ' was prepared to go to all possible lengths to prevent civil planes heing /used for military purposes. Captain Eden expressed the necessity for bombing unruly trihes. It avoided the employment of nnmbers of troops, and resulted in decreasing • casualties. Moreover a warning of such raids was usually given, and it sufficed. He was not of the opinion that an exception would be dangerous, particularly for those living in regions where Great Britain had" recently decreased her responsibilities. He did not think that Iraq would abandon the possibility of resorting to bombing. Great Britain would be prepared to say which regions should be involved in the exceptions. He emphasised that 'if the Commission accepted the British figures, air forces would he reduced by 50 per cent.