PEACE BY ARBITRATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19276, 13 September 1924, Page 9

PEACE BY ARBITRATION

ENFORCEMENT OF DECISIONS.

BEIT AIN SEEKS SAFEGUARDS,

Pieas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, GENEVA, September 1L {Received Sept. 12, at 10.15 p.m.) The Third Committee has commenced consideration of the constitutional and legal aspect of the Articles of the Covenant relating to international disputes and the proposed Court of Arbitration. Sir Cecil Hurst (legal adviser to the Foreign Office) iu outlining the British difficulties, said he wanted a more precise definition in the event of the League calling up the forces of all the Powers enforcing arbitration. If this necessitated the British fleet patrolling the seas for the protection of neutrals, and thus extending the League’s force to the ocean highways so as to prevent trade with the enemy the fleet would almost certainly g)me_ into conflict with other nations, ritain wanted the Covenant defined clearly to provide that, if having accepted the compulsory arbitration clause, her fleet, at the League’s command, undertook certain, action she would not later be called before the Court because her action had violated some Power’s rights. The clause would have to be defined to prevent Britain, while protecting an attacked country, from becoming herself an aggressor. M. Louchuer said that he hoped that the fewer the neutrals the fewer the wars. Though Britain had , once been regarded as the tyrant of the seas, the war had snown wnat a good tyrant the flegt was. The Anglo-dominion delegates conferred and agreed with the general trend of Sir Cecil Hurst’s speech.—Sydney Sun Cable.