LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 9

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

THE NEW DRAFT

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Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn,

LONDON, March 29. The new draft of the Covenant will indicate that a State may be. a member of the. League without binding itself to accept any or all of the various separate conventions, which tho specified. lii addition there will be conventions regarding the white slave traffic, opium traffic, and the £reatmen"T 67 natives. The last named will merely replace the Berlin and Brussels . Conventions. REVISION COMPLETED. PARIS, March 27. The League Commissions have* completed the revision of the Covenant. The Japanese did not press the equality amendment at the present stage, but reserved the right to bring the matter up before the full Commission. An amendment was inserted safeguarding the Monroe Doctrine. The fact that the German colonies are coming under mandatories 'must be included in the Peace Treaty, and necessitates the introduction of some I aspects of the League of Nations into that document. > EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. LONDON, March 297 i The principle of equality received in- ! direct endorsement in the provision not i employment of women on the Secretariat and offices of the League of Nations, but for their sitting .as delegates or members of the Executive Council. | ASIATIC IMMIGRATION. I ' CAPETOWN, March 27. - A Pretoria message states that with regard 'to , the Japanese attitude ko wards the League of Nations, the Transvaal view, especially among the Dutch', is that South Africa should set its face against Asiatic'immigration. LORD ROBERT CECIL'S VIEWS. '"' l - &EW;YORK, March 29. ' The "New York Herald's" Paris* respondent "interviewed Lord Robert Cecil, who expressed the opinion "that questions of race discrimination must not be disposed of in- the League of Nations/Covenant. 5 > Any attempt to decidel these - matters 'in the Covenant would be considered' a violation of the clause prohibiting interference in the internal affairs of members of the League. : ITS'FUTURE HEADQUARTERS. ' i PARIS, March 29. It is likely that Geneva will be selected as the- capital of the League of Nations/ • < - t t • MONROE DOCTRINE AND RACE EQUALITY. PARIS, March 29. - It, is r now authoritatively stated neither'_the Mb'nroe Doctrine amenu--ment.nor, the Japanese' demands .rejacial "-has - formally before the Commission. -It is regarded as certain that both .subjects will be raised when the revised dr'a/t is again oefore the Commission. < _ , > IRELAND. NOT COVERED BY COVENANT. A high authority was questioned whether Tinder the Covenant, civil war between Ireland and Britain would come within the jurisdiction of the League. He replied in the negative, and said that neither would thoques- , tion of / Ireland's" independence be a matter for the League/ ' ' VISCOUNT ISHiFINTERVIEWED. j NEW'YORK, March 28. Mr David I/awrence, the "Evening Post's" Washington correspondent, interviewed Viscount Ishii, who said: — "I am sorry some American Senators misunderstood my New York speech. I had no particular instructions from my Government to make this speech, but the subject is very close to the hearts of the Japanese people. We must go to the source of all friction between the peoples, in order to establish a League of Nations, which will prevent war. What Japan seeks is largely sentimental. I said nothing in my speech which would give a basis for. believing that Japan intended to have the United States open her gates to unrestricted Japanese immigration. The quarrel between American and Japanese soldieis at Tientsin was merely a local brawl likely to occur wherever large bodies of troops congregate. The Korean uprising is merely the work of young Korean students. The Japanese administration'of Korea has been excellent."