CONFERENCE PROGRESS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1930, Page 9

CONFERENCE PROGRESS

POLICY FOR WORLD PEACE

better arbitration urged

DISARMAMENT OF NATIONS

EARLY CONFERENCE HOPED

British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 1. The heads of delegations to the Imperial Conference made further progress to-day with the final consideration of the constitutional aspect of Imperial relations. They also approved the reports of various committees, including the Singapore base, war graves and arbitration and disarmament.

In regard to the arbitration and disarmament the delegates generally favoured improving the machinery for the peaceful settlement of all forms of international disputes. The principle underlying the general act was approved with reservations applying to disputes prior to the accession of the act, disputes in which parties agreed on other methods of peaceful settlement and disputes between members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

The delegates agreed that the draft disarmament convention offered an excellent basis for progress and that everything possible should be done to call an actual disarmament conference as soon as possible. ' The Dominion delegates generally agreed on the desirability of th- proposed amendments to the League covenant to harmonise ’ with the Kellogg Pact.