DISARMAMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 5

DISARMAMENT.

ANGLO-AMERICAN AGREEMENT. ESSENTIAL FOR- EFFECTIVE WORK. United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapu Copyright.) (Australian Presa Association.) OTTAWA, Get. C. In an interview at Paris Mr.- Raoul Dandurant, Government leader in the Canadian Senate, with the approval ol the lit. Hon. \V. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister, explained the disarmament situation- at Geneva to the Paris correspondent of the Canadian Press. We cannot understand why an agreement should not be reached between the two great English-speaking peoples allowing that their fleets, instead of being opposed in naval competition, should conjoin with the sole desire of assuring the peace of the world,” lie said. “All the statesmen at Geneva are looking with anxious eves to London and Washington, as the preparatory disarmament commission qf the League of Nations must deal simultaneously with naval, land and air forces. It can hope to do useful work only if Britain and the United States agree to a formula allowing them to make appreciable reduction in naval armaments.’’

The interview concluded with an exposition of the League’s proposed draft uonvention i which will be submitted to members and non-members of the League, and which provides for conciliation and arbitration on grievances.

“This goes one step further than the Kellogg treaty,” said Mr. Dandurant,