RUSSIAN ARMAMENTS
NO STATEMENT MADE QUESTIONS IN COMMONS (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' (Received November 9,2 p.m.) LONDON, November 8. In the llouso of Commons, Mr. Baldwin told a questioner that the League of Nations Preparatory Commission on Disarmament Would meet on November 20 and the Council of the League early in December. The latter would doubtless give elfect to the Assembly’s resolutions. Though the Soviet was participating in the Disarmament Commission, he was not aware that it had made any statement as to the extent of its armaments. Sir Lamer Worthington-Evans said he understood that the- Soviet bought 50,000 tons of nitrate, presumably for munitions, and also largo quantities of leathern 1 tanning materials, lead, copper, and tungsten, which could be used for pither civil or military purposes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 8
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