DISARMAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7

DISARMAMENT.

DRAMATIC DEBATE. i ■ Solution Of Powers , Differences I Urged. TEST OF PRINCIPLES. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) GENEVA, September IS. A. dramatic debate arose in the Third Committee regarding the date of the Preparatory Commission's next meeting. Dr. Edouard Benes, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Czecho-Slovakia, declared that the psychological moment had arrived to put the League's principles to the test. A conference should be called without delay. He was confident that a Disarmament Convention would result. Dr. Loudon (Hague), chairman, who emphasised the desire for an early meeting, said that convening it would be useless unless the Governments disagreeing on the points of the Draft Convention reached an understanding. He proposed to ask England, France, Italy, Japan and the United States in instruct their delegates to meet him in Paris to discuss it. M. Boncour (France), who presumably had delayed his speech to enable others to speak first, moved, urging the solution of the differences between the Powers in order to allow the Commission to meet late in 1928 or early in 1929.

WOMEN POLICE.

Work In Cause Of Protection Of Sex. N.Z. SIGNS SAMOA AWARD. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) GENEVA, September 18. The Assembly of the League of Nations listened attentively and applauded Mrs. McDonnell's description of the work of police women in South Australia, given apropos of the resolution unanimously adopted calling attention to the importance of police women as a protective measure in the interests of women and children. Sir James Parr, on behalf of New Zealand, signed the convention on the execution of foreign arbitral awards. This embraces Western Samoa, j AGGRESSION VICTIMS. LEAGUE LOAN PROPOSALS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, September 18. The report of the Third Committee providing for financial assistance to States which are victims of aggression was unanimously adopted by the League Assembly to-day. The Finance Committee of the League was instructed to draft a convention, including rules for its application and the fixing of a maximum annual liability for each guarantor State and the amount up to which it might have to guarantee a loan.