PEACE PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17974, 29 June 1920, Page 5

PEACE PROBLEMS

WAR DAMAGES TO FRANCE.

GERMANY'S ESTIMATE.

Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright.

PARIS, June 26. There has jnst come to light a secret memorandum of the German Official Commission regarding French war damages. The document assesses the total payable by Germany to France as 7,228,000,000 gold marks, less 215,000,000 marks' for the German construction of public improvements in France. The memorandum reckons the amount payable, apart from the war zone, as 50,000,000 marks, also damages to churches, cathedrals, and public buildings at 75,000,0t)0 marks.— Times.

( GERMAN DISARMAMENT.

MARSHAL FOOT'S WARNING,

. LONDON, June 26. The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent has interviewed Marshal Foch regarding German disarmament. Marshal Foch said it was not a question of destroying 15,000 German guns. The true menace was the hostile militaristic spirit of the German people. If that spirit is translated into action again there will be a more terrible and a swifter weapon in the air. It was the duty of the next generation not to abandon precautions.—Router.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

PRESIDENT WILSON TO CALL FIRST MEETING.

WASHINGTON, June 27. Ino Allies have asked President Wilson to call the first meeting of the Assembly of tiie League of Nations. The State Department officials say that the call will not be made immediately since the Alleis have not yet decided on the time and place for the meeting.—A and N.Z. Cable. b

PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COURT.

rwc • i rm HAGUE, June 26. Official : The Jurists' Advisory Committee to the League of Nations decided to recommend the Hague as the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice. I lie committee adopted the view that the TOurt be open only to cases brought by states, not bv individuals, as the latter would have the protection of their Governments.—Reuter. . THE HAGUE, June 27. 1 Received June 28, at 7.50 p.m.) The trend of the discussion by the Advisory Committee of Jurists is to widen the sphere of the Permanent Court of: Justice to include the greatest number of cases possible. Facilities will be available for non-members of the League of Nations where they find it impossible to obtain compulsory settlements exoept in the case of broken treaties and agreements, in which the principles of international law will be restated.—A. and N.Z. Cable