DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE CONCLUDED
•.Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.)
LONDON, April 27.
The “Morning Post’s” Geneva correspondent says: Striving to feign optimism the Preparatory Disarmament Commission has closed. The constructive results are chiefly the revelation of almost insuperable difficulties in the way of disarmament, or even of a limitation of armaments. Everyone admits President Coolidge’s threepower naval conference in June will largely determine whether the League's scheme of real disarmament will advance further at the next meeting in November. The President’s closing remarks to-day hardly concealed his pessimism and disappointment.
Count Bernstorff received pressmen after the conference closed, when he declared that disarmament was the League’s true role but the various Governments’ instructions to their delegates showed little desire for actual disarmament. Germany’s objective, he said, was not the stabilisation of armaments, but a real reduction of the naval, military and air personnel and material. POISON GAS BARRED GENEVA, April 26.,., The Preparatory Disarmament Committee reached unanimity regarding the Article undertaking to abstain from poison gas and bacteriological warfare and from the preparation for same in peace time, also, prohibiting the importation, exportation, and manufacture of substances intended for chemical warfare.
LEAGUE’S AIR FLEET
LONDON, April 27.
The most important question before the Air Commission is the receipt of a last-minute request from the League of Nations to have its own fleet of aeroplanes for urgent communications. The commission decided that there was no objection to the proposal, and it fixed special markings in the event of any country lending machines to the League. The “Mbrning Post” says the request conveys the impression that the League is trying to form an independent European state. There is no question of the League wanting to use a fleet to enforce its orders upon any country, but this may be the possible outcome.
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