ARMS PROBLEM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22294, 21 June 1934, Page 7

ARMS PROBLEM

MANUFACTURE AND CONTROL IMPORTANT PROPOSALS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, June 30. The American delegation to the League Committee for the control and manufacture of arms introduced important proposals, including one that each nation must be responsible for arras and munitions manufactured in its territory. All orders from abroad or shipments must be notified to the Permanent Disarmament Commission, while the Governments must similarly notify orders placed with the national arsenals and private firms.

The proposals also contain provisions for rearmament by instalments on the lines of Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s plan .in'.the cases of countries authorised to increase the armaments, and to introducc the British practice of the national control and manufacture of armaments by licensing, which so far Britain alone has adopted. THE GRAN CHACO DISPUTE. BAN ON EXPORT OF ARMS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 19. Captain Eden (Foreign Under-secre-tary), answering questions in the House of Commons in regard to the proposed agreement for a general embargo on the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, said the Governments of 34 countries had announced that in principle they were prepared to agree to the imposition of this embargo. The Italian Government had, however, made its agreement conditional on agreement by the Japanese Government. The latter had not yet given a formal, agreement, though it had explained that no export of arms had in fact been scut from Japan to Bolivia or Paraguay. The formal coming into force of the embargo was accordingly for the moment delayed. The British Government was 'continuing to hold up the issuing of licenses for the export of arms to the two belligerents, but it was not prepared to give an undertaking that this unilateral action would be pursued indefinitely, and in all circumstances.