WORLD PROBLEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 September 1930, Page 7

WORLD PROBLEMS

LATE EDITION

J THE LEAGUE AT WORK

EVACUATION OF THE SAAR

■AFRICAN MANDATES

(United Press Assoeiation —By Electric Telegraph

Copyright). Received 12.15 p.m., to-dav. GENEVA, Sept. 12._ The Council of the League of Nations pased a resolution in favour of the withdrawal of the forces protecting the railways in the Saar territory within three months. Dr. Curtins expressed satisfaction at the solution of the matter. There was a notable decline in the tone of the general debate after yesterday’s big “guns.” The main topic in the lobbies is Mr Arthur Henderson’s astute switching of interest in the problems of disarmament arbitration instead of M. Briand’s European project, which was not mentioned in any of the morning speeches. General Hertzog, like Sir Robert Borden, suffered through uninspiringly

reading written speeches^ The Germans stirred uneasily and hooked daggers when General Hertzog particularly to the recent examination of the South-West African mandate. He declared that the Mandates Commissinon had caused the greatest friction by raising academic questions about the permanency of the mandate and the extent of the datorv Powers’ sovereignty. Such inquiries should either be abandoned cr restricted to the narrowest limits. South Africa wanted peace disarmament, provided it was universal. The League was most gratifed by the Council’s decision to evacuate the Smi* by all occupational troops within, the period accepted by Germany. This is regarded as a definite achievement towards a complete settlement of the situation, which is only second to the occupation of the Rhineland m the •bitterness created in Germany.