RUMANIA AND LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 11

RUMANIA AND LEAGUE.

DISPUTE .WITH HUNGARY. DISCUSSION IN LORDS. ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. {British Official Wireless.) (Received November 18, 5.48 p.tn.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY. Nov. 17. In the House of Lords Lord Newton asked the Government if ifc were the case that the Rumanian Government had officially declared its refusal to submit to the decisions of the mixed arbitral tribunal that had been set up under the Treaty of Trianon. He said very important issues were involved in the question. The conditions of the treaty should be fulfilled, particularly those parts relating to the property of the Hungarians in those parts of the former Austrian Empire which had been annexed to Rumania. Lord Cushendun, the British delegato to the League of Nations in succession to Viscount Cecil, replied for the Government. He expressed regret that Lord Newton had raised the question. The matter had been referred to the Council of the League, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, had been asked to act as rapporteur, in case the matter was still undecided. The report would go before the Council next month, when it was hoped it would bo possible to decide the matter one way or the other. In these circumstances it was not possible or proper for the British Government, in anticipation, to go into the merits of the case. A Press Association message says Lord Buckmaster spoke on the matter. He said Hungary deserved the pity of everyone. Instead of peace descending like a dove, it had come like a vulture, tearing her limb from limb. Z/ord Carson said the claim. made uy Hungary to havo the issue tried by an international Court was unanswerable. After Viscount Haldane, a former Lord Chancellor, and Lord Phillimore, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, had spoken, the Earl of Balfour, in replying, appealed to "the four greatest ornaments of the High Court" to restrain their comments until after the League Council had met, when the subject could be discussed with better knowledge. It was an extremely complicated question and would be thoroughly investigated by a competent tribunal in the course of a very few weeks.