Geneva, Nov. 7.
At today's sitting the preparatory disarmament commission dia cussed the question whether in ths agreement to concluded the personnel of the various navies should be indicated in lump figures or divided into officers, non-commissioned officers, and sion. The Unit States, Great Britain, and Japae advocated the former method, while France and the Soviet Union elaimed that the latter method would give a clearer picture of the actual situation, After a debate lasting three hours the question was referred. 8 sub-committee which is to find a [compromise formula, Count Bernstorff, the German delegate, declass fed in his epecch that this was another opportunity for the commis, sion to limit the trained reserves and thus to show the curnestr fof its do sive to reduce personnel gether with the armaments, He algo stated: that it was necessary learly to divide the totals both foe the army and the raw into active service and reserve periods, and to determine exactly the total annual contingent of recruits, the men who pass out of the rosery period no further lists. should Kept and no further cal made them. However, in spite of the German delegate's urgent request te take a vote on these proposals, the chairman adjourned the conference til tommorrow.—Trans-Ocean Kus
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