AT GENEVA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 210, 6 September 1927, Page 7

AT GENEVA.

LEAGUE ASSEMBLES.

Delegates Arrive From Fifty

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SIX GROUPS INCLUDE WOMEN.

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GENEVA, September 5.

The Council of the League of Nations at it* first public sitting on Saturday referred point* connected with the Dantig municipal loan to the Financial Committee.

The Council heard the German Foreign Minister, Herr StreMtmann, on the work of the Economic Committee, and M. Paul Boncour (France) on intellectual cooperation.

In the afternoon the Britixb Secretary of State for Foreign Affair*. Sir Austen Chamberlain, took part in the meeting.

Delegation* from 50 States have reached Genem for tod.iv's Assembly. Six of the delegations include women. Among them arc representatives of Britain, Australia, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Much interest attache* to the German attitude. Heir Stresemann ie likely to insist thai the delay in general disarmament is a breach of faith.

ASSEMBLY OPENED. Delegate From Uruguay Made President. CANADA PBOPOBED FOB SEAT. (RwiTfd 11.00 a.m.) GENEVA. September 5. "The ta*k, of achieving disarmament can only be accomplished by stages, some of which have already paMcd and still the Leapue ha*- not failed," declared Scnor Enrique Villep*. of Chili, in presiding at the opening of the League Assembly.

When* the speaker expressed the opinion that the problem before the As.*embly could be solved on the line* of the recent conference, Senor Villegas dwelt on the League's growing universality and its high prestige, which, be said, invested the Council with the authority necessary to bring peace and order into political life. M. Guani, of Uruguay, was elected president of the Assembly. The Canadian delegate, Mr. Dandur■nd. waa instructed to propose the candidature of Canada for a non-perman-ent seat on the Council, on which there are three vacancies.—(A. and X.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")

WAR ATROCITIES. SCOfE Or PROPOBED INQUIRY. GENEVA. September 5. Information from Brussels indicate; how tho decision of the Belgian Cabinet against the holding of an inquiry into the allegation by Germany that Belgian franctireur* shot German soldiers in the early days of the war was reached. It was under the impression that Germ .my was insisting that the inquiry should cover all questions concerning atrocities in war time.

The German delegates at Genera, deny that Berlin advanced any demands for the extension of (he scope of the proposed inquiry. They assert that Germany's acceptance was based strictly on the Belgian proposal.