BELATED CLAIMS
BEFORE LEAGUE COUNCIL. SEQUEL TO GREAT WAR. MR EDEN’S REPRIMAND. (Received 9 a.m.) GENEVA, January 19. The Council of the League of Nations could not complete its business today as it had expected to do. and adjourned until Monday.
The adjournment was preceded by a lengthy discussion of a Finnish claim against Britain for approximately £1,000,000 for the use of Finnish ships during'the war. Britain paid the Russian Government,, through which she chartered the ships before Finland’s independence, but the Finnish owners did not receive the money from the Soviet. Switzerland also claimed £2,000,000 for war damages from Britain, France, Italy and Belgium. Mr Anthony Eden (Britain) reproached Finland and Switzerland for bringing forward insignificant disputes which threatened to turn the council into a debt collecting agency. A report will be drawn up during the week-end, on which a vote will be taken on Monday.
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Northern Advocate, 21 January 1935, Page 7
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