DISARMAMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1926, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

LEAGUE. COMMITTEE’S REPORT. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) GENEVA, November 30? The League Disarmament Commission’s report says that a limitation •of armament budgets does not offer a practical basis fol* the limiting of firmaments. The Commission, therefore, favours the creating of a permanent body under the auspices of the League of Nations, to study statistics of each country, and to see if the disarmament convention is fulfilled. ' The report, favours the prohibition of chemical' and ■ bacteriological warfare, but it admits that such factories as dye works may quickly be transferred into poison gas plants, and that it is impossible to restrict the manufacture Of poison gas used for industrial purposes. It. says that the human .element is the most important factor in war, not only as regards Soldiers, but for making war products, of which the most important are food, steel, money, fuel, nitrates,, sulphuric acid, and india rubber. The rbpoft will be submitted to the Council of the League bn December 6. “BIG FOUR ,7_ CONFERENCE. • ROME, November 30. ; Thoiigh there is no confirmation of a report that Signbr Mussolini, M, Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain, arid Herr Stresemann will meet shortly to discuss a ‘tßigger Thoiry Company,” the ; Trans-Alpirie . Agency which is usually Signor Mussolini’s, morithpiece, says that such a confeience would be entirely consistent with Italy’s policy for the consolidating of European peace.