The Archive · 1931

Labour Outburst on Armaments

Vienna, July 27.

A vehement Brit fever, 10,000 tons and the abolition Jof all "submarines and _aireraftwas a feature of to-day's session ' of the congress of the Labour and Socialist International.

'The German, Herr Wels and the Frenchman, M, Bracke, jointly presided at' the meetings in order to symbolism Franco-German -workingjelass solidarity, Mr. David Kirkwood, a Labour member of the British House of Commons, was responsible for the outburst regarding armaments, His protest was against the inadequacy jof the reduction programme. prepared jointly by the Second International and the Trade Union Int national for submission to the Di armament Conference—Reuter, Geneva, July 28, The General Secretariat of the [League of Nations received to-day ithe Polish reply to the circular note requesting detailed information on ithe present state of armaments of jail nations which will attend the World Disarmament Conferenes next year. Though the Polish me-

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