NO POSTPONEMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 243, 14 October 1933, Page 9

NO POSTPONEMENT

GENERAL COMMISSION DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE CONVERSATIONS AT GENEVA. [ British Official Wireless.) Received Oct. 13, 5.15 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 12. Although conversations between the leading delegates are continuing at Geneva, there is no longer any likelihood of a postponement of the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference which will meet on Monday next. This view is strongly supported by the British Government, and it is understood that conversations yesterday between Sir John Sitnon, M. PaulBoncour, and Mr. Norman Davis revealed that it was fully shared by France and America, who are equally determined to push ahead with the work of the Conference. Baron Aloisi being absent in Rome, the Italian delegation was not represented at yesterday afternoon’s conversations, but later in the evening Sir John Simon received Signor Soragna, of the Italian Foreign Office. The chief German delegate, Herr Nadolny, also visited Sir John Simon. It is understood that there was a general agreement betwen the British. French, and United States delegates that there must be no German rearmament in the broad sense of the term. The Times’ Geneva correspondent says that this would not exclude a certain measure of reorganisation of German armaments in the process of adapting themselves to the requirements of a short-service army of 200.000 men, which would be quite different from those of present Reichswehr. DOUBTFUL SITUATION GERMANY’S ATTITUDE. GENEVA, bet. 12. The solution of the disarmament situation is doubtful even on October 16, when it is understood that the English, French and American delegates will present the resolution originally intended for discussion on October 14, founded on the » Paris conversations. This reaffirmed the principle of general disarmament. It would have crystallised the situation because Germany must either accept or reject it, but Mr. Davis urged the advisability of securing Qormany’s adherence before presentation. It was therefore handed to Herr Nadolny, who may fly to Berlin for instructions. It is feared that these will be negative. EMPIRE SECURITY A BULWARK OF PEACE. MR. BALDWIN BROADCASTS. Received Oct. 13, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 13. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a broadcast speech said: “We have cut down our armaments to the utmost limits compatible with national security. Wo can go no further on the road of one-sided disarmament, because the security of the Empire is one of the great bulwarks of wojdd peace to-day.”