London, Nov. 90.
'The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthor Henderson, speaking at Cardiff yesterday, referred to the situation Tegarding' disarmament. Under the terms of the general act of arbitra: tion which, he indicated, the Government were accepting, every dispute would be referred to an im-Partial arbitration tribunal. He! added: "As a result of the diseussions at the Imperial Conference wel may now hope that all the seif-governing Dominions will act with us in taking this new and far-reaching] ste "The British Commonwealth having the lead in this great matter, other Powers, it is certain, will fol-Tow the example. We shall then have made another step forward towards the completion of our, system of safeguards a regards world the Government, he stated, were also in complete accord with the Dominions. The Preparatory Commission on Disarmament at Geneva had been making good and very satisfactory progress and he could not appraise! too highly the work of Lord Ceci.
He continue nly, we must have come to the limitations of manpower, but it must be maintained the treaty comes into operation. We must have some limitation of material. We must have publicity so that we can know what the governments are doing. We must have some sort of supervision and control by an impartial League of Nations commission, whose task shall be to ensure that the limits @efined in the disarmament treaty' fare not infringed or exceeded in any}
"After the first five years, the armament treaty will be subject to revision, and if the experience of the first five years shows that the' treaty needs improvement, we shall be in the happy position to set about making that improvement. When ive have the work of the Preparatory Commission completed, we hope that before many months there will fixed a disarmament conference representing the whole world.'—Wire-lees through Reuter.
The'well-known aviator, Marcel Doret, on a metal monoplane, fitted with two engines developing 200 lip. each has beaten the world's ficed record over 1,00{, kilometres, formerly held by Czecho-Slovakis, with an averse hourly speed of 296,127 kilometres.
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