MEETING OF COUNCIL,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 September 1923, Page 7

MEETING OF COUNCIL,

PROTEST BY ITALY

Received Sent- 6, 12.20 p.m. "GENEVA, Sept. 5. The greatest interest was taken in ihe> Council of the League of Nations meeting to-day. The hall was crowded. .fcagnor Salandra opened the proceedings By reading a letter drawing attention to bombardment of Corfu, and throwing aspersions on the conduct of the Corfu authorities, following with a lengthy statement contending that as the murdered members of the mission were, appointed by the ambassadors' conference, it was for the conference, not the League of Nations, to decide the issue. He asserted that Greece had appealed to the League in order to escape responsibility for her barbarous act, and affirmed that the Italian Government had no intention of recognising the authority of the. ■League to intervene. It was the Italian Government's irrevocable opinion that the Council of the League "should not proceed with the< affair. % Prince Ishii proposed an adjournment until to-morrow .

Lord Robert Cecil agreed, but asked that Articles 10, 12 and 15 of the covenant be tread in French and Eing3ish.

When this was donej Lord Robert Cecil remarked. that these articles not merely contained the Treaty of Versailles, but the treaties of Neuilly, St. Germain and Trianon. If they were not taken into consideration then the bases of these treaties would be shattered .—Reuter.