OCR Text |
Show OUTLINE USE OF POISON GA8 American Proposal Accepted by Representatives Rep-resentatives at Washington Washington. The five major naval powers, through the naval committee Saturday voiced to ontilaw gas as a weapon of war, and, in adopting the Root resolution to that end, Invited world adherence of all nations to the 'ibitlon as a rule of international law. The committee then turned to the third new agency of war with which It has been called on to deal aircraft, but had not completed discussion when adjournment was taken. Indications were that there would he no effort to restrict airplane development de-velopment through limitation of number, num-ber, size or military obnractrl sties. A Mnbcommltiee. in a report, recommended recommend-ed against such ti course as both tan-n.iot'cal tan-n.iot'cal and unwiso. Fven action to "ir'i llirber than tflr developments or fleets seemed improbable, as the dele--ntes apparently do not regard Zeppelins Zep-pelins as of serious menace. The discussion dis-cussion brought out the possibility, however, that n declaration n-galnst he bombing of open towns or cities nletir later b laid before -he courer-ence courer-ence (for approval, coupled with five-power contract- to refrain from such acts ns among themselves. |