Geneva, Feb. 23, The Chinese disarmament prow /postls submitted for consideration dhe Secretariat of the League of Nations to-day make three suggee-(1) that the scale of armaments ions.
shall be determined by the size of territory, the number of Population, the length of front.
ier or coastline and national resources, (2) that all' encouragement of a war-like spirit and war-like pursuits, which are inducive to militarism, shall be abolished.' (8) that bombing planes, heavy artillery, aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships:
shall be abolished—Reuter.
London, Feb, 24, The chief British Delegate, Sin John Simon, at the General, 'Com mittee of the Disarmament Confer-fence at Geneva this afternoon urged that the draft convention, prepared after five years' work by the Preparatory Disarmament Commission, should be used as the framework {for discussions. The proposal was supported by representatives of France, America, Germany and ite asked the Commission first to vote on a proposal for complete disarmament.
The vote will be taken to-morrow, Reuter. of "Russia versus the rest" when general unanimity was reached to adopt the preparatory commission's report as a basis for discussion.
'M. Litvinoff, the Soviet Commis. sar ior Foreign Affairs, complained of the inadequacy of the report and secured the postponement of the yote in orcist to submit a resolution for general and complete disarmament.
Litvinoff dilated upon the in~ congeuity of the League appealing: to China and Japan to cease opera-Cons and of the Disarmament Con ference sorrowing over bloodshed éty the Far East while shiploads of munitions were streaming
concerned, th the content of the governments "Gvilisation," he said, "would
performed with bare fists in not, suffer uch Mf the fighting was Fay. Ensti instead of with hel fand bombs destroying thousands of Litvinoff's amendment in fa our of total disarmament was feated, only Russia and Turkey voting for- it.
Feb, 26.
Having disposed of the Russian objection, the General Committee of the Disarmament Conference unanimously adopted Sir John Simon's resolution that the Conference adopt the Preparatory—Disarmament Commission's convention busi for the deliberations of the present Conference.
A Spanish Aesop delighted the Conference to-day p-to-date version of one of the faihous animal fables.
Senor Madariaga used the tale to explain why Russia, favoured: general disarmament,. He had the whole' Conference, incl Lite mott, convulsed with laughter, by is near reference to the Russian, the jungle to armament. 'They were the lion, eagle, tiger, bull and bear. The lion the' eagle suggested the jon of wings, but: the cage looked at the bull and favoured the removing of horns. The bull, how-fever, fearing the tiger moved for 'a discarding of claws, The bear finally spoke and acquiesced gracie ously to the general abolition of Jail these weapons #0 that he might embrace his four jungle brothers his loving arms—Reuter,
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