GAS AND GERMS IN WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 11

GAS AND GERMS IN WAR

GENEVA’S DECISION DISARMAMENT DIFFICULTIES By Cable. — Preaa Association.—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. A message from Geneva says the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament reached unanimity regarding an article in the proposed convention, providing for the signatories to undertake to abstain from the use of poison-gas and bacteriological warfare and from preparations for these iu peace time. The article would also prohibit the importation, exportation and manufacture of substances intended for chemical warfare. The Geneva correspondent of the "Morning Post” says that* striving to feign optimism the commission closed its session. The constructive result was chiefly a revelation of the almost insuperable difficulties In connection with disarmament, and even a limitation of arms. Everyone admits that the three, power Naval Conference in June will largely determine whether the League’s scheme for real disarmament will be advanced further at its next meeting in November, says the correspondent. The closing remarks to-day of the president of the commission hardly concealed his pessimism and disappointment. Count Bernstorff (Germany) received a party cf journalists after the conference. He told them disarmament was the League’s true i ole, but the instructions given by the various Governments to their delegates had shown little desire for actual disarmament. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.