DISARMAMENT PLANS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 120, 21 April 1932, Page 7

DISARMAMENT PLANS.

PROPOSAL BY SIR JOHN SIMON. DESCRIPTION OF WEAPONS. (British Official Wireless.) Received April 21, 12 noon. RUGBY, April 20. In the General Comm : ssion of the Disarmament Conference, Sir John Simon moved that, without prejudice to the other proposals for discussion under later heads, the conference declares its approval of the principle of the description of weapons with the view to prohibiting, by international convention, their possession or use by any State. He expressed fire view that qualitative disarmament was more effective as the most important thing was that no State should continue to live under a system in which all classes of armaments were allowed. A proposal on the lines of Sir John Simon’s resolution is before the conference in the plan put forward by Italy and the United States. Another plan for international control of certain armaments lias been advanced by France The A T ugo-Slav delegation supported the latter scheme, and Sir John Simon’s resolution was approved by tho German delegate, Herr Madolny, and also supported by Sir Thomas AVilford (New Zealand) and Signor Grandi (Italy). The debate was adjourned. MR RAMSAY MACDONALD. RETURNS~TO GENEVA. Received April 21, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, April 20. Mr Ramsay MacDonald left by air liner for Paris and Geneva after consulting an oculist. M. Tardieu decided to accompany Mr MacDonald to Geneva in order to continue the conversations. NEWFOUNDLAND POLITICS. GENERAL ELECTION SHORTLY. ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), April 19. A general election will bo held in Newfoundland probably at the end of May or early in June. This was an announcement made by the Premier, Sir Richard Squires, in reply to a question put by the Leader of the Opposition during the fi’,t session of tho House of Assembly since the riots on April 5. Tuesday’s sitting was held without untoward incident, as the House met behind doors closed to strangers and with a cordon of 200 police thrown about the Colonial Building. AVRITS ISSUED. LEADERS - INVOLVED IN LEGAL BATTLE. Received April 21, 10.50 a.m. ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), April 20. Newfoundland’s political leaders became involved in a free-for-all legal battle to-day as eight more, writs were issued, for alleged violation of the Parliament Act.