Evening star., 1933-10-06
BRITISH D|SARM|NG
HELD F00L|SHNESS
Lord Lloyd Says Everybody
Else Carries on With
Arming.
BY NEGLEY FARSON.

BY Cable to The Star.
LONDON, England, October 6.-The
British are a nation Of fools for disarm-
ing while everybody else carries on
with arming.
This statement. made by Lord Lloyd
before the British Conservative party
at a conference yesterday brought
minutes of cheering. Lord Lloyd. who
has distinguished himself as a reac-
tionary British die-hard, then as high
commissioner in Egypt, then as gov
ernor of Bombay, called on the govern
ment to reverse its levers and rearm on
land, sea and air.
Amid shouts of shame he reused
the conference by contrasting Frances
air force as twice the size Of England's
and by scoffing at the American pro-
fessions of disarmament while continu-
ing to build up to the London naval
treaty program. Lord Lloyd, amid NUT
terings of dissatisfaction, stated that
the United States had SO submarines,
Italy II and France, 109, while Great
Britain, which ruled the waves" had
only Al.
Situation Seen Darker.
Winston Churchill said that the
world situation gradually got darker
since Locarno. He was cheered when
the exchequer, he had the courage to
tell the conference that Great Britain
could only increase its armaments by
increased taxation. But We must be
prepared for that he said.
Lord Lloyd was applauded when he
said that England, by striving for dis
armament, might have increased its
prestige at the League Of Nations, "but
don't think that matters" he de-
clared.
The conference refused to pass
motion approving the British disarma-
ment convention, but accepted a single
clause reserving the right Of aerial
police" bombing in outlying areas.
The tone of the conference was
unanimous that there is no safety now
outside an armed natlonalism.
simultaneously, the boom in the
Sheffield steel trade now turns out to
be largely heavy orders for armor plate.
The main armament firms at Shef-
field are the English Steel Corpora
ton, Firth & Brown and Hadfelds.
Hadfields is working on armor-piercing
projectors and bullet-proof steel for
small tanks.
The armor plating mills of the Eng
lish Steel Corporation, which have been
closed for years, now are reopened and
running overtime. In at least one de-
partment the three-shift system has
been introduced Union officials at the
corporation plant state that almost
half of the unemployed have been
taken back to work.
The big armament works at Glasgow
of William Bearmore admit that they
have three times more men employed
at the Parkhead forge and naval con-
struction works than year ago. Our
employees are assured Of steady work.
they said.
simultaneously, the labor exchanges
in London are advising applicants to go
to the government arsenal at Woolwich,
which, 1t is stated, has re-employed
300 munition workers last month.
Sees Naval Increases.
The monthly journal of the Shefield
Chamber of Commerce, alluding to the
81 new warships ordered under Great
Britain's replacement program, ADDS:
There are grounds for thinking that
the program of naval construction now
being forwarded may be much in
creased shortly"
A report is circulating about informed
quarters in London that the United
States is trying to break away from the
iron front refusing to give token arms
to Germany British sources at the be-
ginning of the week let it be known
that the United States, Great Britain
and France reached a firm agreement
on this point.
1t is known that the Germans insist
on a small feet of airplanes as well as
sample heavy guns and tanks. A rumor
is going the rounds of London that Nor
man Davis, chief American disarma-
ment delegate, hoping to end the dead
lock, asked the Germans whether they
would be satisfied If they were allowed
heavy guns only for fortress defense.
tCopyright. 1889