The Washington herald., 1922-01-10
POWERS TO PASS
ON RULES OF WAR
AT NEW FARLEY
Nations Will Be Asked to
Voice Opinions on
Humanity.
continued FROM Paoe one.

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anything that restricted our power
to Init ornaments whether by land
or sea or air. But we must accept
the fact sas they now appeared ana
leave II to some future time to deat
with the subject. when the technical
differentiation between war and
peace aircraft should fave become
clearer.
Mr.. Sarraut for France said that
he had just listened to the pres
entatIon Of a certain number Of OBJ
servations in consequences OF which
he desired to state that the French
delegation gave its full assent 10
the first resolution proposed by the
committee
Baron Kato, of the Japanese dele
CATION, said that the question OF arr
craft did not demand elaborate
discussion at present He belleved'
however. that the time would comp
when II would be necessary 10 enect
a limitation upon the use OF arr
craft. He agreed with the conciu-
sion of the subcommittee that II
was impracticable at present TO ef
feet any Limitation upon the use oil
"heavier-than-air craft. Therefore
he accepted the proposal on behair
of the Japanese delegation.
disappointed over Aircraft.
The chairman, Mr.. Hughes, said
that he thought that they all feit
a deep disappointment in being I'M
able to suggest practical limita-
tions on the use of aircraft In war
or on the preparation OF aircraft FOR
military purposes. The question
reduced itself not to one CT umlta-
ton of armament. but TO imita-
ton of civil progress, and. faced
with that difficulty. there seemed 10
be no alternative but to adopt the
first resolution so far as II applied
as 1t did apply, exclusively to
heavier-than-air craft.
| This appears to be the sense OF
| the committee.
The chairman then said that the
next question was whether 'it woulo
be deemed practicable to impose
limitation in the case of lighter
than-air craft.
The chairman then asked il II was
the desire of the committee to state.
as their conclusion, in view OF the
arguments presented by the sub
committee, that 1t was not practi-
cable to impose limitations upon
lighter than-air craft. or IL II was
their desire to present a resolution
containing such a limitation.
Senator Schanzer said that he
only desired to ask the chairman IL
the first proposal. which made an
exception for lighter-than-air craft
were approved, might IL not seem
that the exception were approved
also. He suggested the elimination
OF the words excepting in the sim
gle case of lighter-than-air craft
| AT Present. Impractfcabie.
The chairman said the suggestion
of Mr.. Schanzer was that II would
accomplish the purpose IL II was no,
proposed to put a Limitation upon
the lighter-than-ai craft, to adopt
the conclusion of the subcommittee
leaving out the last clause. so tina,
the sense of this committee would
be stated to be as follows:
The committee is OF the opinion
that it is not practicable to impose
any effective limitations upon the
numbers or characteristics Of air
craft. either commercial or mill.
tary"
The chairman said that IL wa.
suggested by Mr.. Balfour that the
words "at present" should be IN.
serted before practicable" Tha,
seemed to be a very good sugges.
ton: because that was what they
were doing not indicating that in
the future It would not become
practicable.
He asked for an assent to this
and il was unanimously adopted
The chairman then said that they
came to the next recommendation
or conclusion OF the subcommittee
as follows:
The committee is OF the opinion
that the use OF aircraft in wal
should be covered by the rules OF
warfare as adapted to aircraft. by
further conference which should
be held at a later date
This unanimously was agreed to
and the committee adjourned until
IL o'clock today.