LIMITING OF ARMS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 64, 9 December 1935, Page 5

LIMITING OF ARMS

British Efforts Hampered By Ethiopian War (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 6. The reference to arms limitation, in particular relation to air armaments, in the course of Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech in opening last night’s debate in the House of Commons, has l attracted considerable' attention. He assured the House that the Government had been making every possible effort to renew discussions that might lead to a reduction of armaments, and particularly a reduction of air armaments. Toward the end of the session in the summer he made an appeal to Herr Hitler to resume these discussions. Since then the Government had made a further attempt, and he regretted to say that the view at present seemed to be that so long as the Abyssinian war was continuing there was little to be gained by resuming these discussions. That, so far as they gathered, was the view of the German- Government. Nevertheless the British Government would be ready to seize any opportunity that offered itself. He took the view that an air pact and a reduction of air armaments were more urgently needed than ever.