LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 65, 17 March 1919, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

CONSULTATION OF NEUTRALS. FUTURE ADMISSIONS. PARIS, March 15. The Council of Ten has invited neutrals to furnish views and criticisms of the League of Nations by March 20, with a view to amending the covenant consonant with their desires as far as practicable. This may lead to a series of conversations or informal conferences with representatives or neutral nations. Switzerland desires to see more definite rules regarding future admissions to the league, by which tbe executive council may be able to say judicially whether any nation has lived up to these rules. (ieneva is mentioned as the probable home of the league, notwithstanding views in favour of The. Hague and Brussels. — (A. and N.Z. (able.) Mr. Wilson has cabled to Washington that the plenary conference has definitely decided that the League of Nations shall be part, of the peace treaty. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

THE GERMAN DELEGATION.

LONDON, March 16. The German Government at Weimar has appointed the following peace delegates:—Count Brockdorff Rantzau (Foreign Minister). Dr. David, Dr. Mueller, Professor Sehuekin, Herr Giesberts, Bavarian Minister at Berne and Herr Warburg, a baker, of Hamburg. The delegates have been ordered to refer the terms to the Cabinet—(A and N.Z. Cable).

HOME FOR THE LEAGUE.

!'r' (Received 11.45 a.m.) BRUSSELS, March 16. The Council of Aldermen has offered the beautiful Egmont Palace as a home for the League of Nations.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)