DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC STATES. (By Cable —Press Association—Copyright.) (Beuter's Telegrams.) MOSCOW, December 3. M. Litvinoff, opening the Disarmament Conference between Russia and Poland and the Baltic States, read a declaration by the Bussian Government expressing its readiness to reduce the Red Army to 200,000, dissolve irregular units, limit war budgets on a reciprocal basis, and to neutraliso the border zones. Ho added that it was impossible for Eussia to reduce her navy. Prince Radziwill, head of the Polish delegation, who was also acting on behalf of Eoumania, expressed a desire for a political agreement as a preliminary to technical discussions. The Finnish, Esthonian, and Latvian delegates expressed a similar desire. The Finnish and Esthonian representatives urged the serious consideration of naval disarmament. ■ The conference arranged to nominate ! various commissions. I -
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 6
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