DISARMAMENT
GENEVA COMMITTEE'S REPORT. REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURE SUGGESTED.' (I’rcss Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, May 26. (Received May 26, at 8 p.m.) The report on disarmament, which is being drafted by a committee, was read to the full committee without discussion. It will be considered this morning. The report adopts the French proposal that the Governments are entitled to take account the degree of security existing wdien the conference meets ami suggests that a limitation of armed forces might be effected by a reduction or limHation of expenditure on national defence. Count Bernstorff elaborated Germanv’s viewpoint regarding assistance by the League in the event of aggression, expressing the opinion that no State should have an armed force superior in numbers to the collective forces of the nations forming the League.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 9
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