WORLD’S PEACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18295, 12 July 1921, Page 5

WORLD’S PEACE

) DISARMAMENT QUESTION. A CONFERENCE PROBABLE. PRESIDENT HARDING’S FEELERS. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, July 7. The New York World’s Washington correspondent states that it is understood that President Harding, who conversed with Senator Borah, has promised shortly to take up the disarmament question with a view to calling a conference. The President admitted that he had boon feeling out the situation with the aim of initiating the necessary steps.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NAVAL LIMITATION. BRITAIN, AMERICA, AND JAPAN. AN ALLIANCE PREDICTED. TOKIO, July 7. Recent meetings of the Elder Statesmen produced the impression that the ground is being prepared for formal negotiations between Britain, the United States, and Japan on the subject of naval limitation. The newspaper Nichi-Nichi Shimbun declared editorially that the negotiations for the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, now being conducted, arc due to the likelihood of a naval arrangement between the three nations.—A. and N.Z. Gable, NEW YORK, Julv 7. The Japanese Consul (General Kumaski), in addressing the members of the Japanese Diet who are visiting America in a semi-official position, predicted an Anglo-American-Japaneso Alliance. Other speakers favoured disarmament.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, July 6. Interviewed by the New York Times, Senator Lenroot said: “I favour the general principle of disarmament, and a Urge measure of disarmament on the part of the United States regardless of any agreement or understanding with other nations. No one pictures another war during the present generation and perhaps the next. No nation desires to attack the United States or could do so successfully. Let the other nations go ahead if they wish to confer to reduce armaments. * The United States is mg enough to settle her own questions.—A. and N.Z. Cable.