The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27
A SMASHING BLOW.
Germany Rejects the Cars Disarmament
Proposition.


Proposition.
London. June 27.-The correspondent
of the Daily News at The Hague says:
THE German delegates to-day pri-
vateIy informed their colleagues that
they had received instructions to ac-
cept the principle of a permanent tri-
bunal or arbitration as outlined in the
Anglo-American plans
This and the speech of Colonel Gross
Won Schwatzhoff plainly intimating
that Germany had made up her mind
against the Russian idea of disarma-
ment and had reached the conclusion
that the time had arrived to tell the
world so, are the two great events of
the whole conference. Neither has
been published as official by the Ger
man government but everybody knows
that Germany will not recede from the
position thus taken up.
To-day 1 interviewed many dele
gates, some friendly to Germany, others
hostile. They were unanimous in de-
claring the Schwartzhoff speech a
smashing blow pulverizing the argu-
ment of General Den Ber Poortugauel
and Colonel Jilinski. The effect was
tremendous within the conference when
Schwartzhoff pointedly exclaimed:
Germany is not ruined. On the con-
trary, her wealth. contentedness and
standard of life are daily increasing
altogether his speech was the great
est sensation of the conference Hith-
erto nobody expected Germany to reject
the Russian proposal in so bfusque and
unconditional manner.
when the disarmament proposals
came on, the first feeling of most of the
members was to reject everything forth
with. NJ. de Staal, seeing this, went up
to the chairman and asked him to pro-
pose subcommittee. On the division
all the delegates voted for the post
ponement of the consideration of mill
tary disarmament until the reports of
the subcommittee, except those CT
Germany and Austria, who voted for
it's immediate consideration, which
would have meant immediate rejection.
The Swiss delegate refrained from Vot-
ing The American delegation at first
voted with Germany, but finally voted
with the majority.
Gross Won Schwartzhoff spoke for
half an hour with overpowering trunk
| ness. His speech was considered pow
| erful and the members of the confer
ence predict that he has future
He said the reduction of peace forces
in no way implied a corresponding re-
| duction of offensive power. These forces
might be kept stationary and a coun-
try still be increasing its offensive
power Length of military service,
service by deputy, railways, rapidity of
| mobilization and economical conditions
will all be factors in making up the
military strength of the country; and to
take one term only of the problem and
to argue that reducing forces all around
would leave the various nations on
the same relative footing toward one
another as before, however plausible IT
might appear to an outsider, was to the
military expert SO manifest an absurd
ity that he (the speaker) wondered il
had been put forward, presumably in
earnest. 1.-THE Russians" he said, cal
Siberia a colony, but in a European
war they bring every Siberian regiment
to war by rail
When the German delegate sa
down everybody thought What will the
poor Russians say? and the reply O.
Colonel Jilinski showed that they wer1
lamer than ever. Indeed one noticeabl,
feature of the conference is the ute,
inferiority of the Russians in debate,
IF military disarmament halts, nava
disarmament is lame. The arbitration
committee sat for three hours to-day
Germany will accept the permanen
subject perhaps, to some modifica
tons"