LEAYE TO APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 138, 7 December 1935, Page 9

LEAVE TO APPEAL

TIMBER COMPANY CASE

(Received December 7, noon.)

LONDON, December 6.

The Privy Council has granted leave to appeal in the case of Chappie versus the Tongariro Timber Company.

Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, will confer tomorrow in Paris with the French Premier, M. Laval.

The attitude to be taken at next week's meeting of the Committee of Eighteen, when the question of extending the scope of sanctions against Italy to include oil, iron, and steel will be discussed by the two statesmen, and the prospects of making some further effort to bring about a peaceful settlement before the Geneva meeting will be examined. The British and French Foreign Ministers have not met since the League requested Britain and France to explore the possibilities of hastening the establishment of peace last month.

Meanwhile small expert delegations of both countries have been engaged in Paris in an effort to devise proposals which might be regarded as a basis for a settlement which the three parties to the dispute, Itajy, Ethiopia, and the League, might be expected to accept. So far no agreement has been reached as a result of the meeting of experts, the progress of whose work will be reviewed at tomorrow's meeting.

Sir Samuel Hoare will, if the weather is favourable, fly to Paris early tomorrow morning. Among others who will meet, him on arrival will be Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who left! for Paris this afternoon and is expected to remain there for a few days.after Sir Samuel Hoare leaves tomorrow evening for Switzerland, where on the advice of his doctors he will take a few weeks' rest.