THE LEAGUE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 September 1924, Page 5

THE LEAGUE

PREVENTION OF WAR. PROTOCOL AGREED TO. A FURTHER CONFERENCE. OABLB—PRIBS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGF GENEVA, Sept. 19. It is agreed that the protocol will be inoperative until it is ratified by fifteen States and the disarmament conference has actually reached an agreement. , The conference will be called in. six weeks after the last ratification, the receivable date for which has been fixed for May 1. It is expected, therefore-. that the conference will be held on June 15 at the latest. Germany and America, in any ease, will be invited. M. Benes reviewed the provisions of the.protocol, which are substantially as in the original draft, except that the aggressors will be held responsible for the cost of all joint League action secondly, that States refusing to rign the protocol will not have their rhzhts or position injured : and, thirdly, the council can give financial aid to small States having their commerce injured by their joining the economic blockade. - . • Mr. Henderson announced that the international conference on disarmament would meet on June 15 next. He cohfirmed that the sub-committee dealwith arbitration, security and disarmament had reached an agreement. The fourth commission has adopted a proposal for an estimated expenditure of £500,000' in the construction of the projected Palace of the League. Dr. Nansbn has left for Germany on a semr-official mission. He will discuss with Dr. Marx the question of Germany’s admission to the League. i The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the idea, of England becoming the League’s policeman of the seas has been definitely abandoned,; p\All seem to agree that the definition ots" an aggressor is . a. Power refusing arbitration and not submitting to a regular inquiry. This alone Would not orb vent war. hnt in the opinion of the British and Scandanavian delegation's the* more advance towards disarmament the easier will he the task of obtaining recognition of arbitration and its decisions. . V

Tfte Morning Post says, /ttie British made considerable concessions ok the subject.qf'military and economic sancwhile. the French advanced the matter, of•disarmament to an extent s 6 faryunhoped for. , i . 1 ® -correspondent of the Press 1 Association says the calling of the meetingof'the Assembly morning aroused expectation of an •announcement regarding arbitration ami security apd the public galleries were .crowded. . The business, however, was. the submission of the reports of committees, which had completed their labours, and M. Salandra’s statement \\ as? anxiously awaited.An announcementis unlikely before; Wednesday, as th ® ‘ W ntisb Government must be ‘ consults. • All the British delegation meets., on Sunday to discuss their course--of action next, week, and the conference is likely to last three hours nieset conferences areflield as frequents ly . possible, and .they provide the only method of consulting the Dominions. . The British delegations prefer K. delegates of teller / but there mre obstacles owing' to the division of the delegates among the committees and the fact that they are at the same hotel. . Mr. Charlton spoke at an anti-war meeting this evening. There were 'a thousand present,; including Italian. Swiss and German. Socialists. The lastnamed is. a,member of the Reichstag, and, during the height of the German’s tulrnmations against the capitalist a yoiing man and woman protested at his insincerity. They were promptly ejeeta ensued, sticks and fists being flourished. ,Mr. Charlton, spoke nearly last at nte rat ? r of fi a | *f ast , 220 words a min. ute. He finished in ten minutes ox hausted with; his voice nearly Jone* He said the Labour Party wohld ctuil nesoo SUppoi r ari y ™°ve towards peace from whatever quarter If at b would aS h o retUr r d ' at , the elec fi°ns, n be i certam > the first step t^rv d trsirdhJ W T ° Ut eo I mpU,Sor - v ap^aSi.’ 1 e " Ch ’ f ° r 1,6 WIS l0! «^ MOSUL DISCUSSED. •- m. .i GENEVA, Sept. 21. Roi h i OUT1 1 c - I |' discussed Mosul. Fethi y c aimed - that the whole villa vet of Mosul rightly belonged to Turkey and he strongly urged a plebiscite. J . -Lord Parmoor replied that a plebisnhmoJ- aS H lpossible in view of the nomadic character of the population, amp it was likely to provoke disorders. •SirfU f ol S r ot return the Mosul Snct to. Turkey on account of the pledges to Irak, and, furthermore, the districts contained in the mandated territory were entrusted to Britain by the League who alone could modify the mandates. The council adjourned.