DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
SENATE REQUESTS ANOTHER. WASHINGTON, January 21. Without any discussion or a record of the voting being taken, the Senate accepted the amendment to the Naval Bill requesting President Coolidge to call another Arms Conference. It has been indicated recently that President Coolidge did not consider the time ripe for such a conference, and the Administration Senators had been expected to oppose the amendment as being untimely, but they did not explain their failure to do so. DISARMAMENT IN PRACTICE. LONDON, January 21. In accordance with the Washington Treaty the dreadnought Monarch was towed out into the Atlantic and bombarded by the Atlantic fleet and aircraft. It‘is understood that the Hood and the Repulse had to remain to complete the sinking. The Daily Mail says that it took nine hours to sink the Monarch, because the ship had been reconstructed internally in accordance with the results of previous experiments by whioh it was discovered that a vessel may be blown to pieces but be unsinkable by shell fire, mines, or torpedoes.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3698, 27 January 1925, Page 23
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