Washington, Sept. 12. that the building the time being is zai Two days ago it, was stated that the United States Government viewed "with friendly sympathy" Italy's} proposal to the Assembly of the League of Nations that all Armament programmes should be immediately suspended until after the forthcoming Disarmament conference.
To-day, Senator Borah, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, appealed to the Powers to proclaim a five years holiday in naval construction Reuter.
Paris, Sept. 12.
The proposal for a new international peace and disarmament] [pact as a corollary to the Kellogg Pact has been evolved in the course between France and according to. somewhat vague report published by "Lo Matin." This usually well informed paper insists that the negotiations have been going on for some time and that they have nov fcalminated in a joint proposal of the tio powers which will soon be} submitted to the others. No details of the new scheme are divulged, but, according to "Lo Matin," the' nev plan, if generally aceppted, "will supply the Kellogg Pact with ase] fof very efficient teeth."—Trans-[Ocean Kuo Min.
Geneva, Sept, 12.
Speaking before the' Assembly of the League of Nations to-day, De. Julius Curtius, "the German Foreign Minister, challenged the League of Nations t2 justify. its existence through more definite Accomplishments toward "lotase tore active. steps to cope with international: economic situation, Dr, Custius also warmed against any attempts to revive the German President: Hoover's day. plan has expired, The German Foreign Minister demanded @ swift readjustment. the reparations "and. war" debts problem—United Press, Berlin, Sept. 12, Tae, Curtins' speech at Geneva ly, for once met, the general del almost general' approval on the wt of the press here, wi Conservative papers heartily endorse ing Dr. Curtius' unequivocal stand on' the disarmament issue and the fact that Fy appears to deriving great. satisfaction from ¢_more or less isolated at Geneva, After Lord Cecil and now Dr. Curtius endorsed the Italian sug gestion for an armament holiday rin immediately, it is difeult grade the issue logemeine Zeitung" declares and insists that the Foreign Minister's "well-reasoned and partly. event brilliant speech nade' a deep im= usually, support the Freud "y Point of, view."
'The "Berliner Tageblatt" and the "Vossische Zeitung," "on the. other hand: welcome Br, Curtius' Plea for the proposals for. inter hhational, economic ce-operation og embodied in the esonomie report of the "European Commission and echo the Foreign Ministers" hoy that the visit of the French miner ters fo. Benn at the and month' will promote auch, co-opera: tion-—Avans-Ocean. Kuo' Min, Geneva, Sept. 13. A numerical statement in regard to. the "armaments. possessed by, received fosday by the the League of Accord to the statement, the ned in France in1931' Treached a total of 286,342 officers and men og compared with 513,643 jeffieers and men in 1921, The of the troops in ti in 1931, was 291,405 1921, troops.
The global tonnage of the French Navy, the statement "declares, 628,03.
The Air Force in France con: siste of a personnel of $2,110, with 1,210 aeroplanes, while "the Air Force personnel ' Overseas reaches a total of $308, with "395 "nero lanes—Reuter, Geneva, Sept. 13.
The Turkish delegation to the session of the European Commissiot returned to Angora to-day.
Before the departure the chief of the del ration, the Foreign Minister Rushdi [Bey in an interview confirmed th reports that during his stay here he had had severa) informal conve tions with a view to clearing the lway for 'Turkey's entry into the League. Ho refused, however, to' state whether these negotiations had resulted in any concrete suggestic '—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, Tokyo, Sept. 14.
It is learned from official sources that Japan's armament figures; which wore recently despatched to the Secretariat of the League Nations, will__be published simul-, taneously at Tokyo and Geneva on! [September 17.
The French and German figures! have already "been ~published.—
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