CONFERENCE AT GENEVA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 28 June 1924, Page 9

CONFERENCE AT GENEVA.

Observing the League Covenant. GERMANY’S SENSATIONAL DEMAND. By Cubic —Press Association-Copyright. GENIEVA, June 25. The special plenary session discussed the non-ratification oi the eight houre dav bv manv European States. The' German delegates’ declaration that Germany could not discuss hoiuo eonti 01, which would be an intolerable infringement of sovereignty, caused ;i mi id sensation, and vigorous replies by the workers’ delegates. FIGHT AGAINST ANTHRAX. CONFLICTING INTERESTS AT WORK. J3y Cable—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m., Juno 27.) LONDON, June 26. The Australia Press Association special correspondent at Geneva states that the British delegates submitted a resolution to the Anthrax Committee, recommending that the report of tiio Advisory Committee on Anthrax be adopted, and a draft convention bo submitted to next Labour Conference, providing that dangerous wool and hah be disinfected in the importing country, unless previously disinfected.

An Indian resolution urges the committee not to recommend that any action be taken by the Conference. The process now in operation at Liverpool is, it states, effective, bnt costly, ana only capable of application in Liverpool, and with certain classes ot material interferes with their use in industry’.

The Indian resolution concludes that the committee considers there is no prospect of arriving at international agreement on the question. A review of the situation indicates the possibility of a majority of about four for the Indian resolution. The vote will be taken in the morning.

'The matter is really’ one between Britain and India. The Australian delegates, are opposing strongly any suggestion of disinfection of Australian wool.