INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT
Proposal from the Czar. Sensation m Europe. United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph— Qopyright. St Petersburg, August 29 On the Czar's order, Count Muravieft has handed to the Ambassadors of the various Powers at St. Petersburg a proposal for a conference to consider the question of international disarmament. The document states that the maintenance of peace is the ideal towards which the endeavours of all Governments should be directed. Powerful alliances were formed and military forces increased, regardless of sacrifice, ' without the desired pacification, and j an armed peace was being turned into a crushing burden. This, if prolonged, would inevitably lead to a cataclysm, whish he desired to avert. The conference, it states, wouid be a happy passage for the century about to open. The document has created a profound sensation m Euro De.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XX, Issue 4585, 30 August 1898, Page 2
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