PRIVATE CONFERENCES TO AID DISARMAMENT. URGED BY LEAGUE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18577, 27 September 1928, Page 9

PRIVATE CONFERENCES TO AID DISARMAMENT. URGED BY LEAGUE.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received September 27, 11.25 a.m.) GENEVA, September 26. After voting on the Budget, the Assembly session closed. M. Zahle expressed the opinion that the Assembly should learn to employ the language of tolerance and international brotherhood. Thus the League's workers could seriously build the walls of an edifice, the pinnacles of which would pierce the clouds which had hung over the world for so long. Lord Lytton, on behalf of India, strongly deprecated the increasing Budgets, especially of the International Labour Office. He urged officers to exercise greater care in the expenditure, otherwise India might be compelled to vote against the Budget. The League Council passed a resolution urging all Governments privately to negotiate with a view to reaching an understanding and thus permit a successful meeting of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament. The Council instructed the secretary to convene a meeting of the Committee for Supervision of Private Manufacture of War Material prior to the next session of the Council, with a view to the submission of a report to a special conference to be held simultaneously with the general Disarmament Conference. —Australian Press Association—U nited Service.