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THE RUSSIAN PROPOSAL TOTAL DISARMAMENT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, February 25. M. Litvinoff, in urging total disarmament, said that while the League Council was sending appeals to the Far Eastern States and the delegates to the Disarmament Conference were expressing sorrow at the bloodshed, shipload after shipload of military supplies for the continuation of bloodshed was being freely and openly sent to the belligerent States from other countries with the consent of their Governments. The civilised w’orld would not suffer much if the Far East was only fighting with hare fists instead of with bombs and shells, involving thousands of lives and incalculable loss of property. THE PROPOSAL REJECTED. GENEVA, February'2s. The Soviet’s complete universal disarmament proposal was rejected) only Russia and Turkey supporting it. SUB-COMMITTEE SET UP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 25. (Received Feb. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) ■ The Disarmament Conference this afternoon unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by Sir John Simon, as follows: “That the general commission resolves to carry on its discussion with the framework of the draft disarmament convention, full liberty being reserved to all delegations to develop : their own proposals in a subsequent debate, and move their amendments in the form of modifications, additions, or omissions at an appropriate point.” After a discussion lasting three hours sub-committees were set up to deal with land, sea, and air armaments, war budgets, and political questions., Each subcommittee will be composed of one delegate from each country, assisted by experts and secretaries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21580, 27 February 1932, Page 11
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