DISARMAMENT.
JAPANESE OPPOSITION.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Tokio, Feb. 13. An ex-Minister, Mr. Ogaki, in the Diet, advocated an Anglo-Japanese-American naval agreement and a reduction of the army in accordance with the proposals of the League of Nations Disarmament Commission. The resolution was defeated by 225 votes to 38, Ministerialists combining with most of the Opposition to defeat the resolution. Count Kato, leader of the Opposition, declared that no responsible statesman dared propose the restriction of the defensive scheme complying with the minimum naval requirements of the Empire. The Opposition Party considered the programme of eight battelships and eight vital to the country’s defence. Japan was not in a position to take the initiative in the question of disarmament. AMERICA MUST BE ARMED. New York, Feb. 12. In the Senate during the navy debate Mr. Poindexter, supporting the shipbuilding programme, said that if the) United States accepted the postponement plan she would be a defeated nation and would lose her insular possessions. America should not sit at the conference table unarmed.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 3
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172DISARMAMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 3
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