RACE FOR ARMAMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 71, 29 March 1921, Page 5

RACE FOR ARMAMENTS

LAST YEAR'S HUGE TOTAL MORE THAN 14 PRE-WAR YEARS. AMERICA S MAD LEAD. jßy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.3U a.nU WASHINGTON, March 2S. Mass meetings t'> demand reduction of armament.- wore held in fifteen States under the auspices of the Women of the World Disarmament Committee. Senator Borah addressed the Washington meeting, which adopted a resolution asking President Harding to summon an international disarmament conference. Mr. W. J. Bryan telegraphed to the meeting that he was heartily in favour of disarmament by agreement with other nations if by example if necessary. Mr. Borah said that in 1020 Britain, the United States. Japan, France, and Italy expended for military and naval purposes 1fi.442..000,D00 dollars, which was 2.000,000.000 more than they expended for the same purposes during the fourteen years from 1000 to 1014, and America was to have the greatest navy in the world. Thus the race was begun, the mad race which in IOOD-lflU brought England and Germany, hitherto close friends, to war. He could see no relief for overburdened Americans if the naval race continued.— (A. and N.Z.)