DISARMAMENT PLANS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 135, 20 March 1931, Page 5

DISARMAMENT PLANS.

EXPERTS STUDYING LIMITATION (United Press Association —Copyright). LONDON, Alarcli IS. The first meeting of the committee for drafting in final form the basis of agreement on the naval question resulting from Air Arthur Henderson’s and Air A. V. Alexander’s recent conversations in Paris and Rome take place to-morrow. The committee will be composed of legal advisers and other representatives of the Governments of France, Italy and Great Britain-. ... The draft, when prepared, will, <Jfter consultation with the iDommions concerned, be submitted to the Governments of the United States and Japan. . . Replying to questions in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Air rthur Henderson, said the policy of the United Kingdom Government at the Disarmament Conference next February was already receiving careful attention, and would continue to be carefully studied. The! Government had not received the/ report of the League of Nations Committee of Experts on the budgetary limitation of armaments, but that question must undoubtedly be carefully considered.

SUBMARINE POLICY. PROBLEMS FOR CONFERENCE. LONDON, March 19. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says that America and Japan have refused to participate in the Avork of the NaA’al Drafting Committee. Thus it Avill apply purely to an Anglo-Franco-Italian agreement. It might OA r en be reduced to a FrtineoItalian agreement Avith British general approval and a reseiwation concerning the right to increase destroyer tonnage if the disarmament conference does not reduce France’s submarine tonnage below 82,000 tons.