Amsterdam, Nov. 16, Despatches from Bat Any effective system of disarmajon_ of th of chemical gas and of the outside th category tux of warfare which it was legitimate to apply.
The world was aiting impatient-after seven years for some! serious, comprehensis definite and generally agreed to solution of the problem of disarmament Viscount Cecil, rep ing for the Gover that the ease for disarmament was overwhelming.
Tt was true hat the conte outbreak have extended throughout ificrities of the problem hud! munist plot which onused the reeent} Java. internativnul 0 not "Thirty agitators have been arrest. have not cal Recent steps woud not Hing-leaers of Central Yuva. and <aen©, Treaty, and the great East Java are also in custody, {provement in the international mosphere resulting from it, The Twenty-five rioters were is pore when 500 insur-lof the disarmament of Germany. xents armed with rifles to-day at-/They agreed that, substantial's, tucked the garrison at Laboean. Germany had cained out the creates Situation in Hand Amsterdam, Nov, 17.
A message from Batavia states! that there is no cause for anxiety. Forty-nine rebels have surrendered the Tocal police and the whole executive of the Communist part of her obligations, Despite the inevitable el d to int ibe wrong not to recos: that great progress" had Leen mate ing the last year Dis was now discussed it had never been discussed bo® fore, Tt was a practical and live question. The Preparatory: "Committse at Geneva had agreed on their ro-port and set out answers to all technical questions Which had been put to them. The Economic Committee had not yet finished their Viccount Cecil agreed that chemieal warfare and submarines. should be entirely abolished but, he said, the matter was not a simple one.
There was no unanimity of opinion in regard to submarines. A broad result achieved by the Commissioners and the sub-committee up to now was that an attitude of goodwill had been shown by everyone, A Practicable Thing The discussions had shown quite clearly that disarmament was a practicable thing, But it was cleat that they must not be in a hurry, It had been shown that the problem of disarmament could be solved if sufficient preparation was made before the disarmament conference met, He believed that international conferences succeeded in direct proportion to the amount of preparation which preceded them, With regard to bringing forward conerete proposals each country would have to say what it wanted and it would the paratory Commission, in the first place, and the conference, in the second place, to formulate the entire scheme, guiding themselves primarily on' the demands of the various countries, Then this country would certainty have to make definite concrete proposals as to armaments which it regarded as essential within the meaning of Article 8 of the Treaty, Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, was asked in thy House of Commons if he could make statement regarding the policy of His Majesty's Government in Egypt arising from his conversations with the Egyptian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to this coun tr He replied that no decisions were taken or sought at the meeting, He had, however, taken the opportunity of assuring His Excellency of the British Government's desire to ce-operate with the Egyptian Government, and he had received His Excelleney's assurances that the Egyptian Government shared that assurance—British Wireless through Router.
Party at Bandoeng has been arrested. There were 465 arrests at THE COTTON RESTRICTION,
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