LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 5

LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS

A PRACTICAL NECESSITY A FEAR EXPRESSED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* * I NEW YORK, July 25. 1 (Received July 27, at 1.30 a.m.) A despatch from Williamstown (Mass.) says that statesmen in Contimental Europe fear that the great military organisations of their countries growing out of the war may get be-' yond their control and “force the Ministers out.” ( Major-general Sir Frederick Maurice,/! .Chief of Operations of the British Gone-J ral Staff during the war, told the It>| stitute of Politics Conference cm Llml-. tod Armaments to-day that he noted* that a large majority of the statesmen; of all the great countries placed HrafJ tation in the forefront of their political! programmes. He did not iinaerralnad that-idealistic side of the issue, but heJ declared his opinion that limitation hadj become a practical necessity now, apd< was so general as to predicate soma general course of action.—Renter. 1 [During the war General Maurice waif Director of Military Operatimos, hut ha: was placed on retired pay iq 1918 as a result of a controversy to th«i strength of the Army in the field. Ha acted subsequently as a military corro-J sporident, and lias written books on the, war.] ‘