SECOND EDITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 10

SECOND EDITION

LEAGUE ACTION ' SOVIET DEMAND ABSTAINING POWERS ?■'FAILED IN OBLIGATIONS" REVIEW OF MEMBERSHIP By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (.Received October 15, 1,45 a.m.) GENEVA, Oct. 14 M. Maxim Litvinof!, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, has arrived. Excitement was caused when it was known that his return to Geneva was due to his intention to demand the full application of paragraph 1 of Article XVI. of the League Covenant. M. Litvinoff points out that Austria, * Hungary and Albania, by their abstention from sanctions, have failed to fulfil their undertaking under tho Covenant, and therefore tho question of their membership of 'the League is due for examination. _ ' M. Jules Avfinol, Secretary-General of the League,' has circularised mem- / bers of the League asking for information of all measures taken against Italy.

Paragraph 1, _of Article XVI. of tho Covenant states that any member of the league resorting to war in disregard of its obligations " shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act ot war against all other members of tho League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations. The last paragraph! of the same article says:-I—"Any 1 —"Any member of the League which has violated any Covenant may be declared to be no longer a * member of the League by a vote of tho Council, concurred in by the representatives of all the other members of the League represented theroon."