LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
MANDATES COMMISSION.
WATCHING THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
(Router.)
GENEVA, October '25
The Permanent '.Mandates Commission of the League of Nations to-day considered a memorandum which bad been submitted by a Dutch member. This dealt with the question whether Article 22 of the Covenant of the League conflicts with stipulations in U and C mandates on the subject of (be liquor tradlc. It was decided that the commission should follow the terms of the Article in the Covenant and watch Hie liquor trafllc. The commission discussed ex-enemy properties. It agreed to a proposal made by Sir Frederick Lugard (Britain) that each mandatory country should be asked whether any such estates bad been sold or retained, and whether the mandadtory country objected to their being sold at auction; also, whether there were ex-enemy properties or business other than lauded estates and if so how they had been dealt, with.
The commission completed its examination of Ihc Japanese report on Japan's administration of the South Sea Islands.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16634, 27 October 1925, Page 5
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