DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1933, Page 2

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

ANGLO-FRENCH DELEGATES

[official wireless.]

RUGBY. March 8

The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary will meet M. Daladier and M. Boncour at Paris, to confer regarding disarmament. M. Boncour will travel with the British Ministers to Geneva, but it is uncertain whether M. Daladier will accompany them.

ARMS EMBARGO

RUGBY. March 8

Answering a question, Sir John Simon said that Lhe Council of the League was considering the British, French and Italian memorandum containing a recommendation to Governments to impose an embargo on export to Bolivia and Paraguay of arms and war material. Such embargo would not become operative until certain States, not members of the League, including the United States, had applied similar prohibition. As the League was now endeavouring to effect a. settlement of the Peru-Colombia dispute, under Article 15, no question of embargo arose. The embargo of exportation of war material to China and Japan did not apply to air craft, or air craft engines of any kind.

GERMAN LEADERS' ABSENCE

LONDON. March S

The rapidity with which the European situation changes, mostly for lhe worse, is indicated by Hitler's and Neuralh’s refusal to attend the Disarmament Con fei • e n co.

This is regarded as a serious slight upon Mr. MacDonald, especially as the non-attendance of the German Foreign Minister during the British Premier’s presence is unprecedented. Moreover, the French Premier is attending.