CONFERENCE ADJOURNS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 5

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS

REPLY TO GERMANY Rugby, Oetober 16 The Disarmament Conference today decided on a 10-day adjournment. The Bureau of the conference wiill meet again on Oetober 25 and the General Commission the day following. Before adjourning the delegates adopied the text of a rcply to Germany's notification. The reply which has been dispatchedi by Mr. Henderson to Baron von Neurath reads as follows: — "I have now communicated to the General Commission T our Excel-lenc-y's telegram of Oetober 14 announcing the decnsion of the German Government to discontinue participation in the work of the conference and limitation of armaments, and indicating the reasons for that dee'sion. "The German Government took the step at the moment when the Bureau had just decided to submit to the General Commission a definite programme. This programme which was to be completed within a limited period, provided for the realisation, progressively, in accordance with the resolution of conference (in which Germany herself concurred) of the reduc tion of armaments comparable with those contemplated in the convention submitted toj the general conference. "This programme "provides also for corresponding measures of security and for the realisation of that equality of right which the German Government has always placed in th'e forefront of its demands. "I regret the gave decision whicll has been taken by your Government for reasons which I ara unable to 'accept aS valid." The representatives of Hungary, Soviet Russia, Poland, and Turkey "were the only delegates who refrained from voting approval of the text — ith-e Hugarian representative because he said his country, according to treaty, was in a special posdtion and had to consider the disarmament problem from a different angle from other countries, and the Russian, Polish and Turkish representatives because they •had not participated in the negotiations referred to in reply.