DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 20999, 13 January 1932, Page 9

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

♦- THE BRITISH DELEGATES (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 11. At the Disarmament Conference), which is due to open under the chairmanship of Mr Arthur Henderson on February 2, tho British delegation will include the Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay MacDonald), Sir John Simon, Mr J. H. Thomas, Lord Hailsbam, Lord Londonderry, and Sir Bolton. EyresMonsell, but it will be unnecessary for all these Ministers to bo present simultaneously. In view of tho heavy demand which appoaching conferences will make on the Ministers’ time and the important issues that await discussion it is anticipated that members of the Cabinet will be in frequent consultation during the next fortnight. CANADIAN DELEGATION i ' MONSTER PETITION FOR DISARMAMENT. OTTAWA, January 12. (Received January 13, at 10 a.m.) Sir George Perley, the Hon. Maurice Dupre, and Miss M. W. Kidd (Montreal), president of the National Council of Women, will represent Canada at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Mr Bennett (Prime Minister) announced to-day that a petition containing the names of nearly 500,000 Canadians, asking for disarmament, was presented in the Senate Chamber. The petition, which weighs nearly a quarter of a ton, was transported to Parliament Buildings in a motor truck.