HAGUE CONFERENCE BEGUN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 7

HAGUE CONFERENCE BEGUN.

ECONOMIC EXPERTS MEET. SITTING IN CAMERA. "Bj ('able. Tress Association. Copyright."! LONDON, .lune 16. The Hague Conference opened yesterday, when the commission of Allied and neutral economic expert* which is to meet a eommistiion of Russian experts on • Ini)c 2~> held its first meeting. A communique issued last, night states I hill Dr. 11. A. Van Karnebcek, Dutch Foreign Minister, was elected president. He said that the (tenon Conference opened the way and made possible colled he deliberations from which (lis--1 ill-bed Europe mighi be well advised and X lists in might profit. The delegates for l heir orderly study needed an atmosphere of tranquillity and weil-regulatcd publicity free from impatient urgings from outside, which often hampered international efforts for goodwill by enlarging incident* and oliatacles.

When the conference opened journalist,, invade dlhe Palace vestibule. Dr. Van Karnebcek asked them to leave the building, staling that, he could not allow them to attend the conference, us il was inn public Thereupon French journalists'), on behalf of their comrades, asked permission tv remain in the vestibule. The Minister refused, but tbe journalists remained in occupation until the end of Ihe session.

The Hussian delegation numbers 1(1. and i- headed by MM. Krassin. Litvinofl'. and Ko/.in.sk'y.- (A. and N.Z.)