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Show CHILE LAUNCHES ARMS REDUCTIONS - EVERY COUNTRY IN SOUTH AM- ERICA TO DE INCLUDED IN DI8CU88ION IF APPROVED Proposal Made to Make Lower Arma-monta Arma-monta Part In Agenda at Santiago San-tiago Conference to Be Held Next Week Washington. First steps havo been taken to oxtond llmltntlon of urmu-ment urmu-ment to Latin America, It was learned authoritatively Thursday. An agreement botweon the republics repub-lics from the Itlo (Jrnndo to Capo Horn to limit nrrmamont is about to bo propnsod by Chile and already tha plnn bus boon Informally discussed. Tho Chilean proposal is thnt tho question of limitation of armament be taken up at tho fifth lan-Amorlcan conference to bo, bold at Santiago next Starch. If this proixisal is approved, the Santiago conforonco will bo in effort another international disarmament conference Tho Chilean foreign office. It was learned, has communlcntod to tho Chllonn embassy boro tho desire of that government to Initiate a discussion discus-sion of plans for limitation of armu-mont armu-mont in Latin America, at the Sun-tlago Sun-tlago conference. The ambassador has been Instructed to sound out tho question hero. Ambassador Don Iieltrnn Mnthieu has already discussed tho plan infpr-mally infpr-mally with Dr. L. 8. Rowe, director general of tho Pan-Amorlcan union. Itjs understood Mathleu will shortly proposo that tho question of extending Umltalon of armament to Latin America Amer-ica bo included In tho agonda for the conferenco. If tho commission on revision of program for tho conferenco apprpvos tho inclusion of limitation of armu. ment in the agonda, it will then be put before tho governing board of the Pan-Amorlcan Pan-Amorlcan union and with unanimous favorablo action by that body consld-oratlonfftf consld-oratlonfftf tho question will be assured Thoso negotiations am expected to bo completed within tho next threo wooks. Tho present views of tho Chllonn govornment are that limitation of nr-mnraont nr-mnraont in Latin America should be aachlovod through a reduction and limitation of tho expenditures by tht vnrrlous countries, this method bolng preferred to n ship by ship, or gun by gun reduction und limitation. The Washington naval limitation treaty provldos. for scrapping and limitation lim-itation in terms of sips, but ll io bo-llovcd bo-llovcd that tho Chllonn plan would bo wiser for Latin America, as tho purely financial reduction and limitation limita-tion would afford an immodlute economic econ-omic benoflt. Ily this method also, lin ogreoment could bo extended automatically auto-matically to both mllltatry and naval is not the intention to lncludo the Unltotd States In any Tan-Amorlcan ngroomen on llmltalton of armament, for fear It would upset thl country's -rotations with the other powers In tho Washington naval disarmament treatv. |