SUPREME COUNCIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 12 August 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COUNCIL.

—_—Q SATISFACTORY PROGRESS. (Per Press Association— Copyright). PARIS, August 11. The Supreme Council is progressing so satisfactorily that it is expected to conclude on Saturday, though the experts late to-night had not reached a compromise regarding the solution of the Upper Silesia problem. RUSSIAN FAMINE. Yesterday the Council debated the Russian famine question. M. Briand suggested that as Russia helped the Allies, they ought to join America and others in administering relief through the Red Cross. Mr Lloyd George pointed out that sut-h efforts would not be comprehensive enougli. The -Red Cross could not work the loaves -and fishes miracle. The question ought to be considered on a large scale. It was not only a question of Russia, but the whole world iwas involved. He did not admire the Soviet Government, but thought that relief was impossible without its cooperation, owing to its control of the transport and official, machinery. It was not a political, but a humanitarian, question. Unless the Allies helped, typhus and cholera would destroy more lives than the war. VISCOUNT CURZON’S SUGGESTIONS. LONDON, August 11. Viscount Curzon said that operations gonly began with the despatch of relief ships. They must develop an organisation which would divide the famine area into districts, prevent the accumulation of the population in any locality, ration food, conduct relief work, and establish hospitals. ,lle believed the following conditions were essential to the existence of the Soviet Government:—The formation of an international relief authority and the enlistment of an export commission to report at the earliest. GERMAN IMPRESSIONS. BERLIN, August 11. Most newspapers feature Mr Lloyd George’s speech as representing Britain’s complete support of the indivisibility of Upper Silesia. Tlie “Frankfurt Zeitung’ alone prepares its renders for a compromise agreement. TO SHOOT LLOYD GEORGE. PARIS, August 10. A woman approached a policeman outside the Supreme Council meeti-ig-place arid said, “Lend me a revolver 1 want to shoot Lloyd George.” The* woman, who -is described is Irish, was detained, and hep. m i tai condition is now being investigat d. lie W ekly dal.-holiday—< 1 Co ope a!) ay Saturday.—in e< ; " i >e nutwbus reqinsis of niry customers, we have dec ■" c observe the weekly halfi oil !:i hijth our crockery and jlrat’rry shops; on Thursday, closing at 12 o’clock and rem i-r ! ng open ’h day Saturday until 9 p.ni—Krrr and Co, Diapers and Crockery...