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'I‘TIT' T\'T\T\(‘ &T\T'A WASHINGTON. T. € FRIDAY. "MARCH 8¢ 1998, SIR AUSTEN LAUDS ANTL-WAR TREATY Chamberlain Denies Having : Belittled Kellogg Pact in Statement to Press. March 8.—Sir Austen Chamberlain in an interview with the d Press yesterday sa'd he had ¥s regarded the Kelloge pact for the renunciation of war as one more bar- rier erected by international co-opera- tion against war Discussing a recent pi he bhad witih British categorically denied that he had made any reflections against the Kellogg pact. Britain Welcomed Treaty. ¢ definitely and explicitly that I said nothing to belitile the im portance of the Kellogg pact.” he said. “If T had done so. it would have been in contradiction- with every public utter- ance I have made since the pact was proposed to us, and would be directly contrary to the spirit in which both the government and the British peo- lcomed and supported Mr. Kel- g's initlative, Since 1 spoke to the British press T It comes to confirm and fortify engage- ments already taken under oiher aus- pices by many nations. It is common ground to us all that these engage- ments, valuable as they are- for the maintenance of peace, are not absolute guarantee against war. “Peace, said the President. will be- come a reality only through self-re- straint_and active effort in friendliness and neipiuiness. It is to such a enange in internacdonal outlook and in the andards in international relations that ke the President, look to make real and solid the improved conditions which already reign among us. Sir Austen then re’erred’ directly to his interview with the British corre- spondents, various versions of which have got about Geneva and are begin- ning to cause considerable comment, “Does Not Solve Problem.” “The question which was put to me ihe other day.,” he said, whether 1 expected the Kellogg pact to havc immediate and large effec; on the prog- ress of disarmament. As to this, it would be dangerous to be too sanguine. “President Hoover himself in the pas- age from which I have already quot obscrved that peace can be promoted by limitation of armament and by the creation of instrumentalities for the peaceful settlement of controversies. I agree with this statement. FEach new aflirmation of the sanctity of pcace and of the obli ion of each of to main- tain it helps forward the d ssion of disarmament as having regard to the difficulties which \ » have al y ex- perienced. “In spite of the desire for disarma- ment which is common to us all, it would, I think, be rash for any one in the position as responsible as my own to pretend that a single act important, had br of all our trouble: however | ht us to a solution | FIREMAN IS HELD ON ARSON CHARGE Grand Jury Will Consider Takoma Park Case on March 18. RGCKVILLE. Md. March 8.—At a preliminary hearing before Judge Sam- uel Riggs in the Polic: Court here ves- terday Arthur S. 11, 20-year-old mem- ner of Maple and Tulip avenues, Ta- ' koma Park, Md., the night of February 1. Bond was fixed at $2,000. The house Beall is accused of setting afire | belonged to George McCarty of Wash- | ington and was virtually ruined. Chief of Police Alvie A. Moxley tes- tified that Beall admitted to him that he had caused the fire, and State’s At- torney Robert Peter. jr., read a_state- ! ment signed by Beall, in which he ad- | mitted firing the building, giving as his reason that no one liked him in Takoma Park and he wanted to get away. No witnesses were placed on the stand by the defense. Beall was represented by Attorncy F. Bernard Welsh of Ro ville, - ‘ . ber of the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department. was held for the action of the grand jury on a charge of setting fire to an unoccupied house at the cor- Let us explain our to you. 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