Evening star., 1926-06-17
CONSTABLES RATED
PART OF i. S. ARMY
City Police, Dry Officers and
Sheriffs Also Classified
at Geneva Farley.
BY JUNIUS B. WOOD.

By Cable to Tho Star and Chicago Daily News
GENEVA, June l1.--City policemen,
county sheriffs, village constables and
correspondence school detectives with
mail order pistols are to be included
in national armament, the military
subcommittee of the preliminary dis
armament conference has decided
after heated argument.
Should any disarmament program
be adopted on these terms the United
States, were 1t a party, would have
to reduce the police forces of cities
like New York and discharge surplus
constableS in Arkansas.
In order that the League of Ma
ttonS might not a second time be dis
appointed by the United States Sen
ate'S failures to ratify it's endeavorS,
Mai Gen. Dennis F.. Nolan, in behalf
of the American delegation. assured
the committee that American State
and municipal police are not and can
not be controlled by the National
Government.
A hitherto unsuSpected military
organization hich is under Gov
eqnment control in America is the
prohibition enforcement unit. which,
y
mittee's Interpretation, is part of the
national land and sea. armament.
German Force i'm Mind.
While inclusion of city police In
national armaments is ridiculous so
far as the United States is concerned,
most of the countries involved are
concerned with the underlying pur-
pose of the interpretation, which,
ss-
to strike at Germany's efficient Green
police
Under the Versailles treaty Ger
many is allowed a volunteer army of
100000 men, with a 12-year enlist
mont period. She also has 100 900
Green police. France insists the
Green police are in every way equal
TO the army, thus giving Germany an
actual army of 200, 900 soldiers. BY
making polic enlistments only 1S
months, it is alleged, Germany has
provided 100000 trained reserves.
The French insisted upon adoption
of their thesis that organizations
capable of immediate use without
mobilization" are armamentS. Ger
many made the most vigorous opposi.
tion, the American delegation merely
making the reservation that the
United States could not accept in
cluSion of bodies not organized on a
military basis and not controlled by
the Government as armament.
Issue Put to Vote.
The committee could not agree and
the chairman finally put the French
proposal to a roll-call vote. 1t was
adopted by the following vote: In ia.
vor-Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, Finland. France,
Italy, Japan. Jugoslavia, Poland and
Rumania. Opposed-Brazil. Germany
and Great Britain. Not vot.ng-Chile,
Netherlands, Spain. Sweden, United
States. Absent-Uruguay.
Though it is not formally decided to
observe this theory. which is assured
the same lineup. trained reserves, of
which France has 100000 and Italy
has 100000, are not regarded as
armament because they cannot be
used without mobilization.
The French definition of armament
reads as follows:
ArmamentS are: Forces in serv-
ice in peace time, permanently organ
lied, armed forces and the materials
and establishments they use.
Forces prepared for wartime IRE
serves of trained personnel and stocks
of materials and preparations Of every
description undertaken with q view
to war;.
3-Ultimate war forces created dur
ing hostilities by means of all the
general resources at the disposal of g.
country, the resources not being in
themselves armaments properly So
called.
tCopyrisht. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Coz