LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

REVISION OP COVENANT.

3Y AMERICAN SENATOR

Australian.and N.Z. Cable Awn. Received 1.50 p.m., March 31st. WASHINGTON, March 22.

Senator King states .that he has drafted a revised version of the League of Nations Covenant and is sending it to Mr "Wilson Senator King leaves for France within three weeks for the purpose of urging the adoption of the revised draft. His amendments provide for the specific recognition of the Monroe doctrine, under which nations iri the Western Hemisphere will le permitted to execute the League's measures affecting any part of that A similar, provision is, made for the Eastern Hemisphere. The League Covenant would declare that any nation's domestio problems shall not be interfered with by the League. Domestio -problems are the question of immigration, imposts on property, inheritance laws, and naturalisation. Mr King claims that the revised Covenant is written in clearer language than the I official draft. * I

JAPAN AGGRIEVED. NEW YORK, March 30. The Chicago "Tribune's" Paris correspondent says it is believed that Japan is aggrieved because of the probable loss oi Kiaochau and the failure of her initial effort to secure freedom for Japanese emigration to the United States, Australia and Canada. Britain supports Mr Wilson against japan on the question of immigration, "

EFFECT ON BRITISH ALLIANCE}.: The says that apparently Britain is finding the Japanese alliance irksome, and that Britain welcomes the League of Nations Covenant as abrogating existing treaties and alliances, allowing England to, part company with Japan amicably, nnd strengthening the bonds of Empire. It is no secret A that t Australia has been regarding'the iAnglo-Japanese alliance with increasing anxiety, and England realises that her Japanese alliance hampers the establishment of, closer relations with the United States.

RACIAL EQUALITY. MAY. BE PROyiDED FOR." A r NEW YQRKi MarVh 30. The' .''Herald's" Paris' correspondent understands that provision for * racial equality will probably be included in the League of Nations Covenant. LABOUR PRINCIPLES FOR INv > SERTOON. PARIS, March 30. , , The British' Delegation is considering the Labour Commission's report. The Commission asks that cardinal points be inserted jn the peace treaty, on the be in -the League of Nations she would be free to make her labour conditions such as would hamper the nations subscribing to the Commission's decisions, i