The Disarmament Committee today adopted " Draft Convention] consisting of 59 Articles.
The Convention provides for the abstention of gas and bacteriological warfare, It also covers land, sea and air armaments and war materials and provides for the establishment of a Permanent commission to watch over the execution of the present Convention. This provision is considered the crux of the Convention.
The articles also cover the case of temporary suspension of the Convention by a party in the event} of any menace to its national security and lay down*procedure for dealing with complaints of violation of the Convention—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.