THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16849, 1 June 1920, Page 7

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

« INTERNATIONAL LAW. (By Cable—Press Association— Copvrfeht.) (Router's Te.egranis.) LONIHJN, 3lay 29. The American Ambassador, Mr John W. Davis, addressing the International Law Conference meeting at Portsmouth, urged that the American differences regarding the League of Nations should not be taken as evidence of the ■unwillingness of the United States to join the free peoples of the world in establishing Just rules for international conduct. . He argued that the advance of * nternational law had been obstructed by two diametrically opposite schools o thought, namely, the extreme nationalist school and extreme internationalism. Referring to the question of maritime law. which was included in the agenda for the conference, Mr Davis declared that the .German unrestricted submarine warfare not only violated all recognised canons of the laws of nations, immemorial rule of the sea itself, wmch gave every ship in distress the fight or assistance. MERCANTILE MARINE MATTERS. LONDON, May 29. The International Labour Office of tho League of Nations notifies that -<1 States will attend tho conference in Genoa on June 15th to discuss matters particularly concerning the mercantile marine. An official notice specifies a few States that aro not attending as the questions are of no interest to them. It directly singles out the abstention of New Zealand as tho most remarkable, although tho Dominion replied to certain investigatory questions circulated. The notice describes the special position obtaining in Now Zealand owing to the arrangement between tho New Zealand Seamen's Federation and the shipand also other conditions. The Jnpnnese delegation will be extraordinarily large.