LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1919, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SOME 810 MOSLEMS responsibilities and OBLIGATE . TIONS. • '(Australian and -N.2. Cable Association) (Rec. Feb. 7, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 4. The Commission on the League of Nations has not issued communiques, lx hue field lengthy sittings and made great progress with a view to enabh g President Wilson to oirry an approved plan to America.' . . , There is a good deal of discussion ou side tire Commission *3 to the effect o the League of Nations, and whether it will supersede the Monro* Doctrine or strengthen it. . Mcrfdy hypothetidail digestion® are rated in view of the United State teking mandatory powers over ceitain European territories, and 'vhethei rome European Power mTght find it convenient to intervene in hemisphere. For instance, i» *' Srifflw nations b«un. „T„ b “S would the League have power to assign the task of quelling the dispute to a gWexfSuup of nations, including any country, or would .t defer to the United States . The point has an interest for Au. tralia, inasmuch as may be hj. * to be called upon to contribute a qfiota of soldiers to an Y ' t * ie tFJ, B u ® s f l<3 wai wSrem the British Empire’* inte rwt may not in the leuet be oonejnijd. SnthoW bond, the value of the league in preventing wars may worth this contribution. An expression of American publfd epirdou £ reflected in the eabfegtom from New York, which shows uneasiness as to the course the League taking. Newspapers give P ron J^; €nc ® to ex President Taft’s demands for a League with teeth. He objects mandatories over German colonies, an claims that they should be admimsterea_ directly by the League. He .thinks mda? datorie# are thinly veiled territorial ac quiflition. If President Tafts idea is .developed, it will not relieve President Wilson of his present ombamssment of mining America up in eom(M«JedJw« Eastern problems, over whidi it w «*, gested dhe should 1 exercise - mandat-y these very doubts as to what Powers will ultimately be verted m tU increased League that, makes Mr Hu goes insist on an explicit mandatory being ■granted by the Peace Conference. S The League of Nations Societies ■fcress concluded it ssittmgs, an - mstted further resolutions to the • Powers It urges .that no clause co SVital -priMrt" of J^SX. Wii«m’a fourteen points shomd be included in the peace ,Treaty; that the SufaSuld recognise the importance coeducation; that there should be periodical international labour cojjfei •Sees ol employers and worker* for t J IO purpose \>l keeping international regulations abreast oi the (tunes ; that the Peace Conference should. napo.® on enemy States in the Peace Treaty limitations of armament, and control Oi then manufacture in such a way as to almw States belonging to the .League of Nations to reduce their military forces immediately ; that the league hunt tne military and naval forces of its members to a degree compatible with pm-ventiug aecreseiion by non-members ,• Out Aiueu ' States should) icoaisidfar their ddtence BufikaenHy provided for for a conwder- • able period by the anns and raimtions, which -victory has *b«r Jutth j that -the Allied! sjmtes ought to forbid the »?ale of arms and munitions, to countries not members of thelsague. American, delegates sympathise! with the pi-oposhls, but declined to commit themselves on all the points i rased. It ifi i&k that the first «tep mutt -be in the direqtdon of states. Until this is accomplish*! the Allies must maintain a strong foie®. M. Venizelos did) not press the claim to’ Constantinople,* nor to territory bordering On either aide of the Dardanelles, but claimed the Dodecanea Islam* and form of European muniaitory will probably be applied to the Dudanelles. . * agreement REPORTED (Rec. Feb. 7. 9.£5' a.m.) - PARIS, Fel. 6. It is officially announced tint the Powers have reached an agreement on the principles underlying the n entire League of Nation® Oonstitutioi. ; JNTERNATIONAL LABCtfR MATTERS. (Rec, Feb. 7. 9.55 a.f»,) PARIS, Febaury 5. The International 'Labour Legislation Commission agreed to adopt *» the basis of discussion British propofds for the etobtisbment of a penrtanfit orgamaa-. tion for dealing ' with labith matters internationally. i. AMERICA’S POSITION IN THE . LEAGIE. (Australian and N.Z. Gble Association) 'JAMS, Jam 4., General Maurice, in an interview, said is absolutiy vital that the United States should assume the motel leadership l of the ueague. America * •most importaut cfitnbutions to the League are and military. It is certain that we»dl n< jt obtain sufficient funds iron Germany to reconstruct Europe, the German coSaw, or finance 'ho new «pnWB»J W« will be depended on ibe United Stole, for money. Tb; British and) United Sites aSts wiJ <be the chief weapons S the League to enforce its mud** by the application °i economic pres- * 19 ■'-I ' 8Uf ibe Repatrifion Committee met and and two articles of ■ Nations constitution were , officially adpted; ARBITHATTGiN'. (AuatraliA and N.Z. Cable Amo. nation; NEW IYOBK, Feb. 4. A >Pii9 message states that- the mdithat compulsory arbitration wm nl be included !q the constitution o the (league of Nations. The Japanese deWres declare that they are in 1 accord with the principles and Japan will bin 11 10 League. LEAGUE AND treaties. 'TATEMENi' By MR) BALFOUR. (Rec. Feb. .7* 12.'b5 p.m) „ LONDON, Teh. o. ;Mr Balfour, speaking to corresponiagsjs on the constitution of the League il ‘Nations, said it would involve nc f-JUOdiEcation of the treaties of alliance ' fpfevibttßljy bpjdpJjUdtedl Rtegardine tfche qurijtion'as to whether special coahfcion of aeveral peoples could be formed cutI side of the League, He said the Feacf / Conference alone can decide.