ARMS LIMITATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17063, 23 September 1929, Page 7

ARMS LIMITATION

DISCUSSION AT GENEVA COMPROMISE REACHED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) GENEVA, September 21. Nearly all the small countries supported Lord Robert Cecil's disarmament gresoluttbns :in to-day ;s debate. The resuit will probably lie an even vote. Lord Cecil/ in a statement to the press, said lie intends maintaining Ins position. The debate ended in, a compromise, Lord Cecil withdrawing his motion in favor of one advanced by M. Pulitis, with which I-ord Cecil was satisfied. The British view is that her new disarmament “‘push” has served a valuable purpose, and is by no means the failure which the emasculation of the original resolution suggests. Lord Cecil believed he could actually have obtained a small majority if he had pressed his motion to a division. He would have received the support of all the Dominions, and the Scandinavian countries and ex-enemy countries against the Little Entente led by France, hut a narrow victory would not really have helped the cause of disarmament, and might have embittered feeling, and led to obstruction later. The new British efforts have focussed attention anew on the people’s general > dissatisfaction at the lack of progress towards a real reduction of armaments and war material. ' THE NAVAL DISCUSSIONS JAPAN FAVORS REDUCTION (Australian ami N.Z. Press Association.) TO K LO, Sept. 21. Cabinet decided to instruct Japan’s ambassadors at London and Washington to present Japan’s views urging a lower cruiser, parity, offering reduction, not merely limitation, considering the Anglo-American conversations are tending to an actual increase in the conformity of the desired ratios.