THORNY PROBLEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20510, 11 January 1935, Page 1

THORNY PROBLEMS.

League Council Session Opens To-day. (Received January 11, 1.10 p.m.) GENEVA, January 10. The eighty-fourth session of the League Council is opening to-morrow and is expected to end on January 20, if the thorny problems of the Saar and Abyssinia are settled without undue difficulty. It is hoped that the Abyssinian problem will be settled out of Court. The question of the Japanese mandates, on which Dr Benes will report, is not expected to give trouble as no one is desirous of discussing the points arising from the Japanese withdrawal. Moreover, it is nowhere stipulated that the holder of a mandate must be a member of the League. If Japan continues to report to the Mandates Commission she will be carrying out her obligations. NAZIS' REVENGE. LONDON, January 9. The Saarbrucken correspondent of the “ Dail3' Express ” says that, when the Pullman car used for Continental journeys by King Edward and King George was sold at auction at Calais in 1926, the purchaser was Herr Wols, a Jewish director of the Railway Engineering Works at Dillingen. Ilerr Wols is an anti-Hitlerite, w’ho recently dismissed a number of workmen. He says that the Nazis, in revenge, raided his premises and smashed King Edward’s luxuriously furnished coach. Herr Wols intends to make souvenirs from the wreckage and present them to the British officers in the Saar.