CABLE NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15067, 9 May 1919, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

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■ t to stand by themselves will be entrusted to advanced nations who are best fitted to undertake it. The Covenant recognises three different stages of development, requiring different' kinds of mandates. (a) Communities like those belonging to the Turkish Empire, which can be provisionally recognised as independent subject to advice and assistance from tho mandatory, in whose selection they onould be allowed a voice. (b) Communities like those of Central Africa, to be administered hy a mandatory under conditions generally approved by members of the League, where 'equal opportunities for trade will be allowed to all members. Certain abuses, such as trade in slaves, arms £ nd "luori will be prohibited, and the construction of military and naval bases and the introduction of compulsory military training will be disallowed. (c-) Other communities, such as South-West Africa and South Pacific Islands, best administered under laws! or a mandatory as integral portions of its territory. In every case the mandatory will render an annual report and the degree of its authority will be defined. Subject to and in. accordance with lac provisions of International Conventions existing or hereafter to be! agreed upon, members of the League will, in general, endeavour, through i international organisations established by the Labour Convention, to secure and maintain fair conditions of labour for men, women and children in their own. countries and other countries, and undertake to secure just treatment for the native inhabitants of territories under their control. They will entrust the League with general supervision over the execution of agreements for the suppression of traffic in women and children, etc., and the control of trade in arms and ammunition within countries in which the control is necessary.' 'They will make provision for freedom of communications and transit and equitable treatment for. commerce of all members of the League, with special reference to the necessities \of regions devastated during the war, and will endeavour to take steps for international prevention and control of disease. International bureaux and commissions already established will be placed under the-League,1 as will all those to bo established in future.