An item referred to tidings received from Geneva, Switzerland a day earlier that the naval commission was the first of the technical commission to report to the common commission about the attack weapons issue. The concept of the editors commission was approved in a public meeting approved. Just like some weeks earlier became clear was the commission not able to come with an unanimous answer about the attack value of the different warships. The result was a report filled with conflicting opinions of the several delegations although sometimes ending in the same answer.(1)
An item reported that the Dutch delegation proposed to discuss the automatic contact mines topic. Most of the countries present at the conference supported the idea that this kind of mines used in open sea of outside a specified coastal zone were to be regarded as offensive en extraordinary dangerous for the civil population. England and Italy thought otherwise. Mines in open sea were mainly mend as defence against submarines. The common opinion was that the use of these mines in the own coastal zone was a defensive purpose.
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1. The must be the World Disarmament Conference also called Geneva Disarmament Conference or the Conference for the Reduction and Limitations of Armaments 1932-1934 as a effort of the League of Nations to prevent a arms race and even an increase of the armed forces. The withdrawal of Germany from the Conference in October 1933 was in fact an end of the effort.
