AN IMPATIENT DELEGATE

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 9

AN IMPATIENT DELEGATE

DISARMAMENT TOO SLOW PLACID GENEVA RUFFLED GERMAN MOVE REJECTED NAVAL TONNAGE RIGHT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. . Geneva, Dec; 2. ‘The public is fed up. with the words ‘as soon as possible,’ ” impatiently declared Herr Bernstorff at the Disarmament Coinmission.. “It wants something more definite.” This outburst, which somewhat ruffled the placidity of the* meeting, accompanied Herr Bern-storff’s niofon that ' the main conference shon'.l convene on November 5, 1931. Lord Cecil contended thatSthe League of Nations Council in January should fixe the date and others supported him, Italy, Bulgaria and Russia siding with Herr Bernstorff, whose motion was lost.; Lord Cecil announced that he had received instructions from the British Government enabling him to agree to -he principle of liberty to*transfer tonnage from one naval category to another in navies whose global tonnage docs not exceed 100,000 tons. Liberty to/transfer will be applicable only to surface ships, submarines being excluded and their global tonnage fixed by the Disarmament Conference for each Power.