Washington, Apr. £8.
Mr, Theodore Burton, a member bef the House of Representatives, left for Geneva to-day as the head of the American delegation to the conference on the international eon trol of traffic in_arms. The other members of the delegation will sail on Saturday.
The Government is hopeful of definite practical result from the conference. It is anxious ts cooperate to the fullest extent in obtaining practical measures for the curtailment of shipments of Mr. Burton and his colleagues, who have exhaustively studied a draft convention of a temporary mixed commission of the League of Nations, which will form the basis for discussion at Geneva, express the opinion that it oont tures acceptable to America, but other respects it will require con-
The Amer delegates are satisfied thi I be impossible to stop entirely international traffic in They are of the opinion that plan of the Committee of the Teague of Nations for—licensing shipment re only method of curbing the trafic satisfactorily.
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