DISARMAMENT

Northern Advocate, 15 June 1931, Page 9

DISARMAMENT

A NOTE OF WARNING. (Per Pirefc* Artdctatloa.--OdpyTlg:Tit.l THAMES, This Day. General Richardson, who attended the. Returned Soldiers’ reunion at Thames on Saturday evening, uttered g distinct note of warning on the disarmament problem. Speaking to those present, he . said: “I must say that f the' League of does , wonderfully fine work on the social side, hut I cannot say that I am impressed with its work on disarmament. - You remember that one of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles was '-that Germans must reduce their, army to 100,000 men and it is now Germany’s great cOmplaint that while She had been forced by the treaty to ■ reduce her army, yet other countries which are signatories to the treaty have mot reduced their armies in proportion. England made a bigger move than anyone. As far as I can see, countries will hot reduce armaments.; whilst ■ a powerful cgimtry like Russia 1 ; remains outside- the League of Natioifs. ; «Ire General then went on to give ; details of the position in Russia, stressing the fact that .it was not-pos-‘j .jsible for the Empire to go further in J the matter of disarmament while j there still remains tho menace of | countries not in the League. This was certainly not the time to abolish military training nor to reduce forces. ;