DISARMAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1921, Page 5

DISARMAMENT.

AMERICA MAY LEAD. PROPOSALS FOR A CONFERENCE. ADOPTED BY CONGRESS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. Received July 3, 11.30 p.m. Washington, June 30 (delayed). President Harding has made an appeal to Congress for an expression favorable to the limitation of armaments. “I am vastly more concerned over the favorable attitude of Congress than the form of expression,” he wrote the House Republican Leader (Mr. Mondell). The desire was granted this afternoon, when the Borah amendment to the Navy Bill, authorising the President to invite Britain and Japan to confer and enter into an agreement for reducing their navai programme annually for five years to an extent to be agreed upon, was adopted by 330 votes o 4.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HUGE BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS. MORE SPENT THAN IN 1913. PLEA FOR LIMITATION. Received July 3, 11.30 p.m. London, July 2. Mr, W. M. Hughes, in an article in the Sunday Pictorial, points out that the world’s expenditure for military and naval purposes in 1920 greatly exceeded £1,000,000,000. The world, though looking for peace, is actually spending more upon war and warlike preparations than in 1913. Mr. Hughes adds: If disarmament ia not an obtainaable ideal at present, the limitation of armaments and the settlement of disputes by peaceable means are goals that we may surely obtain. Mr. Lloyd George has said Britain is ready to discuss the limitation of armaments with America and other great Powers, and President Harding’s speech held out hope that some arrangement may be arrived at. I cannot believe other nations will lag behind if Britain and America show they are resolved to translate their words into action.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.