A SUDDEN CRISIS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7

A SUDDEN CRISIS

JAPANESE RESERVATION EMIGRATION AND WHITE " AUSTRALIA. ' (AC6TRAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) j LONDON, 27th September. At a meeting of tho First Committee of the League of Nations at Geneva, Baron_ Adachi. (Japan) porposed that the Council should have power to continue conciliatory efforts even in the event of a- dispute being declared by the International Court of Justice to be solely within the domestic jurisdiction of the nations concerned. Sir L. E. Groom (Australia), Sir Cecil I Hurst. (Britain}, and others opposed the suggestion, and Baron Adachi -announced that if tho request were refused, Japan would vote against the whole Protocol., The incident caused considerable ex(•ltment, but before the adjournment Laron Adachi withdrew the proposal, at the same time declaring he would make a reservation regarding the two articles ■upon which it was based. He undertook to consider an amendment suggested by the rapporteur of the committee. Baron Adachi pointed out that under the project Japan would be entitled to appeal to the,. Council regarding questions _ like emigration, whilst it was conceivable that a matter such as White Australia would be dragged in.