SUPREME COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COUNCIL

UPPER SILESIAN PROBLEM RUSSIAN FAMINE QUESTION ANGLO-FRENCH VIEWS. Preu Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 10. The Supreme Council meeting is progressing so satisfactorily that it is expected to conclude on Saturday, though the exports late to-night had not reached a compromise regarding the solution of the Upper Silesian problem. Yesterday the council debated the Russian famine question. M. Briand suggested that, as Russia had helped the Allies, they ought tp join with America and others in administering relief through the Red Cross. Mr Lloyd George pointed out that such efforts were not comprehensive enough. The Red Cross could not work the loaves and fishes miracle. The question ought to be considered on a large scale. It was not only a question of Russia. The whole world was involved. He did not admire the Soviet Government, but he thought that relief was impossible without its cooperation, owing to its control of the transport and the official machinery. It was not a political, but a humanitarian question. Unless the Allies helped, typhus and cholera would destroy more lives than the war had done.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE RUSSIAN FAMINE. RELIEF MEASURES DISCUSSED. LONDON, August 11. Lord Curzon said that operations only began with the despatch of relief ships. They must develop an organisation which would divide the famine area into districts, prevent accumulation of population in any locality, ration food, carry out relief work, and establish hospitals. He believed the following conditions were essential to the existence of the Soviet Government : The formation of an international relief authority, and the enlistment of an expert commission to report at the earliest.—A. and N.Z. Cable. UPPER SILESIA. THE BRITISH POLICY. GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. BERLIN, August 11. Most of the newspapers feature Mr Lloyd George’s speech as representing Great Britain’s complete sflpport of the indivisibility of Upper Silesia. The Frankfurter Zeitung alone prepares its readers for a compromise agreement.— A. and N.Z. Cable.