REFERRED TO LEAGUE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 8

REFERRED TO LEAGUE

BY SUPREME COUNCIL.

BY CABIjE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

PAHI_S. August 12. The Supreme Council has referred the problem of Upper Silesia to the league of Nations. *

Under the Versailles treaty the fixation of frontiers rests with the Alnes, and in order not; to injure the treaty's working the Supreme Council's resold tion relating to Upper Silesia expressly makes it clear that the Council is only inviting the League to make recommendations ; there is no question of the League acting a s arbitrator, the decision remaining with the Council. The newspaper Liberte says the Council's decision means avoiding trouble, but it is not a settlement of t *^ rnießt international question. Le Temps states: One could understand referring .the subject to United otates' arbitration but not to the League of Nations, to which America does not belong. - Cabinet heard M. Briand in repaid to remitting the Silesian problem'" to the League of Nations and approved this action.

BERLIN, August 13. Ihe Supreme Council's compromise has caused excitement. It is regarded p M !\m^- atio? of the BUccess of the V! * .£ ohc% of Procrastination. It is stated that Germany will demand sendinS in trder to prevent a PoGsh insurgent outbreak