LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1925, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] DISARMAMENT COMMISSIOX. GENEVA. Dec. 111. One of the outstanding items on the agenda paper of the League Cotiieronco lias I seen disposed of. amid general satisfaction, all details of the constitution of the Disarmament Commission. together will) the procedure and programme, have been completed, and will undoubtedly be approved at tomorrow’s sitting of the League Council. The Commission will probably meet at Geneva in February. The various States on the Council have all agreed to serve oil the Commission; and invitations are now being sent to other powers, including Germany, Russia and the Cnited States. A private sitting of the Council of the League ol Nations has approved o, the programme prepared by the Preparatory Committee for a Disarmament Conference. R ESSI-VS ATTEITDE. PARIS. Dec. 11. M. Kahovsky (Russian Minister) stud the Locarno Treaties ought to he billowed bv an, agreement with Russia, hut t.h,e' latter's attitude towards the League would not change until the nations which had not yet entered into diplomatic relations with the Soviet had done so. \FW CALENDAR PROPOSED. NEW YORK, Dec. 111.

The Merchants Association is holding a hearing for a plan of calendar reform, which is"to he submitted to the League of Nations, as the League has issued a world-wide appeal for suggestions hereon and has already considered <>' which several are unique. One proposed to start the year on March 21st. and to divide it into ten months ol six weeks, each of which would have six davs. instead of seven, thus making a working week of only five days, which should appeal widely. . H>ere wei<, however, five days remaining, wlucii would Ire called respectively aim Christ, Columbus. Stephenson (inventor of the locomotive). Bullmi( inventor of the steamship) and Henry lord. Another , plan proposed thiiUcii months of 28 days each, fixing Ease, for the. second Sunday m Apiil. making the last day ol ‘ li ' , :,,, _ international Sabbnih. and also ' • i„g Leap Year in the same way. outline it at the end ot dune. The hearings are attracting wide alien t ion, and they furnish daily inieidiscussions, which couu ■ 1 vaneoof human knowledge, from nialheunities and Biblical history and social reform .

.MOSEL DISPI'TE. PARIS. Dec. 11The Havas News Agency’s Geneva correspondent reports that the League „f Nation’s Council's attempt to mediate in the Monsul question has comuletely failed. The Council w ill now pro ced to give an arbitral decision. This course of action was decided upon after Kc.xhid Bey refused an invitation to meet the Council's Mosul Sub-Committee this morning. \ decision is expected on December 14th. GENEVA. Dec. 11.

The Turkish delegates. Tcwlik Bey and Djevid Pasha, instead of going to Angora, ilepnrted for Paris with their wives, ostensibly on a shopping four. They will he the guests of Fethi Bey, the Turkish Ambassador in Paris, who yesterday had a lengthy interview with M. Briand.

Before Ins departure, the Mosul Subcommittee had a lengthy (onferenec with Tewfik. as the result of which he later changed his plans. It recalled that Fethi Bey and Lord Parmoor. in 1021. gave a mutual assurance that they would accept the decision of the League regarding Mosul. Munir lley remains at Geneva. GENEVA. Dee. 12. Mr Ninety arrived punctually. .Mr Aincry denies an interview in Avhicli In* is ci'otl i ic*«l ■with Avar talk.