DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND al, by Any nation seriously concerned with the evils male tading. There was no atempt to abolish manufacture ort riding between Coverters “Tht ivtulsthronghout the World, The sale porpexe oft Seren vine piconet Se superscon; (0 oh ay tay arsine Cahier upstream riper souls Ghai mamfactaers fo tne ofthe Goveramerts ciety co free Toot teeny poole kel to ser fom th xen: fion othe propecd convention were fon ithe Yt Sees fom tho aggravation of ineraina! nines and Ti hope to extend the actin he fer. MTs elements sprang to action immediatly. Another ind Ree crema Cine of guar Grae © take place in Pris on February 16 an, rs Mi the expresedporpove of panning the defeat of the ert Emerton Witch the royonble Goveraments of the world teers fo conser a the eal Genera conference t0 be hed Tie montis nee Me Gunma? Congres wesogsszed by he Commitecothe Lidge Gummnaken’ Aviation of Belgium, snd there scons ete nc trou clit owitccs i moves ey esityaetacdie cancion chic Amesean ee i Aces Covcimert wie rol tafe the Lenguc of Nevons deat ach serous low to the enepton of cleeive sect, nad ctaly greed to send tates erect: ews yoy lei Lng eee. depres cul pryunielfocndon tnd Feeeopeenea tat, cas at comention, the way would He open tints US pti nthe League's sien “The Liege Gunite, oly too wll ar tnt hesitation a ten dangerous rs, deel thatthe wet ere ond te toget the Arsican copie to "turn onthe bea” in ich 4S yay thatthe US, driegte would leave fr Geneva tnd Fe esas merci pio of i das of ppc End fom ett npranfl ot cafre Tecorngy, on Decenibr 194, the Lilge commitee eneeuans a a addressed a Jetter tothe Winchester Repeating Arms Co. drawing its attention to the terms of the dealt convention whieh, they took pains to sees, were “e thou cing informa fasto the opinion ofthe intersted induntrials"and infor Che company that a gunmaker’ conference was to be in the following year "in order to consider the peoposels of dliftrent gon-preducing centres, to elaborate & comm igsmme and adopt a line of conduct to move the several G its to amend the propoied convention. «-<” At the iit stage, the gunmskers pretended to be eotcerned only with the Unrated trade in "sporting arms and such for personal defen, but, as we shall ace later this was merely the thin end fof very thick wedge. At the end oftheir letter, the Ligge hit pointed out tata ilar communi reted fo the English, French, Italian, Czchor Fe eager elacc Meanwhile, anatiee American company—Colt's Patent Fire Arms-had been informed of the preparations for the Geneva Canontion by Fabriue Natinale Armes de Guo of Belg in a letter which ead, fm part, a fallow Tis, of course understood that our general interest isto prevent the hatching up of a new agreement plan... . We therefore consider that in order Iengthen the controversies (ane to thur wear out the long run the bodies occupied with this question) a very simple volution would be <9 lead your Government nat ¢o name represen we Temporary Mised Commision, or at least (if your Government cannot ‘cotsder the pouty of a eategorcal refeal) to delay the nominations just as long as possible. This matter presenting, for both of aur companies, extreme importance, we do not doubt that on receipt of this letter you will wih to immediately fet busy in the high places and have steps takea, without delay, Song the abovementioned linc, using ll the infuence at yur fommand. We are sending a similar request to the Resangton ©,