ARMAMENTS CONGRESS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6390, 5 December 1921, Page 2

ARMAMENTS CONGRESS

CONFERENCE PUSHED TOO FAST CAKEFUL CO NS ID Eli ATIO-N URGED KNOTTY POINTS INVOLVED. (AuatrsVit.;-. and N.Z. r Vj!-..\ (Received S a.m.) LONDON. December 3.

Tho Sunday Times says; .Mr Llby'J George, in view oi the pol.tieal situation at home ami abroad, has decided reluctantly to postpone his visit to Washington indefinitely. This :s perhaps not to he regretted excessively because it is becoming evident that tinArmaments Confereme is being pushed too fast, and that international disarmament is not so easily practicable as it liadi soemed to the idealism of Amci'.ean statesmen. Time is required to consider the proposals of Mr C. E. Hughes. United Slates Secretary of State, in all their hearings, and particularly on tho p’estion of a naval holiday. It is not unlikely that Urn present conference wtll be brought to an early conclusion with tho idea that after an interval the work ho carried on and completed by a similar body in 1922. NEAR EAST PROBLEMS. (Rece.iv.xl ‘i a.in A LONDON, December 3. Lord On rain Ims invited the Freni h ami Italian Foreign .Ministers to meet him and discuss the Near East problem and agree on a united policy. French objection haig publication of the cut re correspondence which Lord Cni'/.ou desires. THE ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE, Received B a.m ~ LONDON. December 3. Nothing E known in official circles in legard to Urn decision to scrap the Anglo-Japanesc Alliance, JAPAN READY TO REDUCE ARMY. (■Received D.SO a.m.) TOE 10. December 2. Thi‘ Japanese War Minister (Baron Yanninaslii), interviewed, declared that Japan would he agreeable to a world reduction of armies immediately, rad another high Governaineiilal official stated that the redirtion may be a,s much as limit’ of Japan’s present military force, provided an agreement ‘nil the Far Eastern question is reached by the i Washington Conference.