The New York herald., 1921-11-28
OUTLAW WEAPONS
Big issue AT PARLEY
Sub Committees Expected
to Report To-day on
Abolition Issue.
INQUIRY INTO GASES
Another Week Required Be-
fore the Result Will Be
Made Known.
PROBLEM STIRS WORLD
Control Of Warfare Terrors
Has First Place in Arma-
ment Conference.
PROBLEM sTIRs WORLD
Special Despatch TO THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.

Special Despatch to THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Washington. ID. c.. Nov. "a.
Outlaw" weapons of warfare will be
again brought to the fore tomorrow
in connection with the Conference on
Limitation Of Armament. Pacific and
Far East questions.
AT a. meeting of the American ad-
visory committee reports will be re-
ceived from subcommittee ordered to
study tho question of abolition OF the
submarine and prohibition of the use
OF poison gases and other implements
OF wholesale slaughter.
The policy of the committee toward
these questions will not be formulated
tomorrow. however, since complete
reports are not expected from all sub
committees handling the subject.
Carmi Thompson, chairman of the
subcommittee on new implements of
warfare, is expected to tell the advisory
committee that his report on poison gas
will not be ready for another week. A
week ago this subcommittee undertook
the task of listing all varieties Of poison
gas, their chemical characteristics ana
the nations experimenting with them.
Gen. Pershing and Admiral Rogers are
being relied upon by the subcommittee
to furnish most of the data needed
Files of the War Department and Navy
are available.
Preliminary Investigations of the sub
committee tend to show that the United
States. as a result OF experiments began
during the great war. is In a position
to manufacture the most deadly poison
gas known to military men and in the
largest quantities. A coincidence, COM
mented upon by those attending the con-
ference, is that agitation for elimina
tion Of poison gases as weapon should
originate In that nation which knows
most concerning it.
The agitation for prohibition Of the
use of poison gas and the submarine
took form from the proposals advanced
by THE NEW YORK HERALD editorially.
A flood of favorable comment ON the
proposal now is reaching the conference
through the American advisory commit
tee in. the shape OF editorials and resolu-
tions passed by civic organizations, not
only in the United State but throughout
the world.
That o. determined move has been
made In the conference by the American
delegation for tho adoption of some in
ternational measure to restrict the use
OF outlaw" weapons has become known.
Just how far the American delegates
have gone in the matter has not yet
been disclosed. But the committees have
been named by the conference to study
the situation with respect TO submarines
and poison gases. Visiting delegates to
the conference are firm In the belief that
some form of International control or
complete prohibition will be approved.
Tho growing public sentiment in the
United States and throughout the world
10 rob modern warfare Of some OF
those factors which bring international
wretchedness, regardless Of whether
peoples are engaged In the conflict or
not, is being reported to the conference
through the public information sub
committee of the American advisory
committee.
Newspaper editors are beginning 70
respond to the appeal for Information
issued by William b. Thompson. chair
man OF the subcommittee. Under Mr..
Thompson's direction machine is being
built UP by the subcommittee to make q
continuous survey OF public sentiment.
Admiral Rogers. chairman OF the sub
committee on naval armament. Ia ex-
pscted to report 20 the advisory CON-
Ynittee tomorrow on the study made by
that group on the question Of abolishing
tho submarine. A request for the study
was referred to Admiral Rogers's CON-
rnittee at the last meeting OF the ad-
visory committee.
Gen. Pershing is expected to report
TO the advisory committee mass OF
data in connection with land armament
IA chairman OF the subcommittee on that
subject.