on the disarmament question has been received here with the same polite incredulity manifested five months ago when the question was first broached. Tt is thought most unlikely that there can be any agreement not to utilise new weapons of warfare. If one Power is offered an invention which promises to carry with ita manifest superior: rity in warfare, is such an advantage to be neglected? The proposed prohibition of submarine torpedo boats is also very unpa-Intable here at the present moment. Knowing, as they must know, the hopes excited by the Gustave Zédé and its fellows, the Czar's_ndvisers certainly seem to have committed an error of tact or inflicted a designed snub on their ally.
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