GENERAL CABLES.
*Y CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT PEKIN, Julv 18. The flood waters at Tientsin are receding. The authorities are optimistic, and think the danger is over. Hankow is threatened with flood owing to an abnormal rise in the river, which during the night rose six inches. —Reuter.
GENEVA, July 19. Powerful opposition to the treaty of mutual assistance drafted by the League of Nations last year is forthcoming from a letter from. Air. Ramsay MacDonald (Premier of Britain), who states that the proposals entail an increase rather than a decrease in the British naval and military forces, and tend to the foramtion of rival groups of Powers, thus reverting to the old system of alliances. Moreover, it implies an undesirable extension of the powers of the council of the League, which would become a powerful executive body instead of a consultative tjodv.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 July 1924, Page 5
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