POWERS AT GENEVA.
DISARMAMENT PROBLEM. CHEMICAL WAR PROTOCOL. EIGHTEEN STATES RATIFY. Australian Presa Association—United Service GENEVA, April 30. At to-day's sitting of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament Lord Cushendun (Britain) announced the ratification of the chemical warfare protocol. He said a British reservation was that it
should not be binding on Britain in the case of enemy States or of allies which did not accept the protocol.
A simila' reservation was declared on behalf of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Irish Free State.
Eighteen countries have now ratified the protocol. The commission adjourned its discussion on naval armaments. In that connection the representatives of Britain and the United States announced that they would only accept a limitation of naval effectives provided that such limitations were generally accepted and satisfactory agreement was reached in respect to the limitation
of warships. The matter will be discussed when the American delegation produces its scheme for naval disarmament.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 13
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