Scout Disarmament Talk.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 6, 1913:
German Officials Will Not Consider Proposals.
    BERLIN, April 5.— Official circles in Germany scout the suggestion, made yesterday by the Frankfurter Zeitung, for the holding of an international conference to evolve a plan for the restriction of armaments which it was hinted should be called by the United States. It was pointed out to-day that Germany was facing the discussion of a bill, calling for a big increase in its military forces, and that the Government firmly intended to enact it into a law and was disinclined to consider proposals for disarmament.
    The German Foreign Office regards the proposal for an international conference as merely another move in the campaign waged by the Frankfurter Zeitung against the new military bill, and says that the suggestion is not entitled to any sympathy in Germany.