7 APRIL 1928, Page 2

Germany is to be congratulated on the promptness with which

she has made good her promise to prevent the export of arms to China. When the China Arms Embargo Agreement was concluded in 1919 certain Powers were not represented. Traders in Germany, Russia and Czechoslovakia continued regularly to provide the Chinese factions with arms, and it must be confessed that even Powers which were parties to the Agreement did not by any means make the embargo effective. Recently Germany and Russia promised to honour the Agreement, and Germany has done so by Act of Parliament with exemplary speed. Russia has yet to fulfil her promise and Czechoslovakia has yet to be persuaded.