EXPEDITING OF WORK

COUNCIL IN SESSION

TRIBUTES TO MR. HENDERSON

REPORT REGARDING DANZIG

United Tress Association—By JSlcctric ■Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 21, 9.15 ;i.m.) LONDON, January 20. The special representative of ihe Australian Associated Press agency at Geneva states that Ihe ninetieth meeting of the League of Nations Council opened with a private session, his Majesty's illness causing serious, concern to Mr. Stanley Bruce and Mr. Anthony Eden, each of whom is prepared to return to London at the shortest notice if events require their presence. Their colleagues will doubtless acquiesce in a brief adjournment of the ingMr. Bruce at the outset asked the Gouncil ,to complete the work as quickly as possible in view of the King's grave illness. When the public session opened Mr. Bruce took the chair and paid a tribute to the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, former President of the Disarmament Conference. Mr. Eden, M. Laval, and representatives pf Russia, Spain, and other countries also eulogised his work for peace. The Council received a report from Mr. Scan Lester, the League's Commissioner in Danzig, detailing unconstitutional Nazi acts in Danzig, including persecution of Jewish, Catholic, and Socialist minorities,and suppression of newspapers, indicating an intensive campaign to create a Nazi State despite the rulings of the League Council. » The Committee of Thirteen will meet this afternoon in order to expedite the proceedings, and will consider the Ethiopian demand for inquiry into Italian methods of warfare and also the Note that there is no means at present of settling the dispute.