JAPAN AND THE PEACE LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 152, 22 March 1919, Page 7

JAPAN AND THE PEACE LEAGUE

THE COLOUR LINE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS RAISED. DEMAND FOR EQUAL TREATMENT By Telegraph—Press 'Association— Copyright Paris, March 20. Japan lias submitted an amendment to tho Supreme Council asking for equal lights and just treatment for alici'J within their borders who'are nationals of the' States which aro members- of the League. Japan asks for a Commission of the -In-, ternational Bureau, which will invite the League of Nations to enforce its decisions. This request is'due to American opposition arising • regarding the> rightsof American State.s. An Australian delegates slates that it is impossible for the British Dominions to agree to die Japaneso demand for equality of treatment of all nationalities. The Australian desire .was to build up an all-British- population -of fifteen millions at tho earliest, possible time. If they opened tho door to jVsiatie, immigration it meant that they closed it to Europeans. < The Canadian delegate agreed.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

• THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MEIUTS PUBLICLY DEBATED. . Boston, March. 20. Senator. Lodge and llr. A. Lawrence Lowell. President of Harvard University and chairman of the executive committee of the League of.Empiro Peace, publicly debated the merits of the league of nations. Senator Lodge attacked the covenant as being productive of further mis understandings. It was necessary to in. chide largo reservations respecting the validitv of Monroeism. America was not willing to dispatch her sons to fight other nations' battles. ■ > Mr. Lowell contended that the- new world made the League imperative. Its defects wei'e easily lemedied.-Aus.-iV/v. Cable Awn. , ' .. A BHPOBT DENIED; ' Paris, March 17." The American Mission-, stands .firm on (lie inclusion of the League- of Ivations in the Peace Treaty. President Wilson has authorised the denial of tho publishod report that tho .League wiil.be divorced from the treaty proceedings.— Aus.-iV/j. ('able Assn. - . . THE ENEMY'S CLIPPED WINGS ' the naval hestbiction's. Paris, March 20.The peace terms wi]l .prevent:, tho surreptitious training ot a large .Gennan army, and will limit the armament production for the which will.consist of 6ix battleships, six light ..cruiscis, twelve destroyers, an ( l.. twelve . torpedo boats, with a total personnel ot Ia.OOU.— Aus.-N./i. Cable Assn. ' THE SURRENDERED SHIPS ADMIRAL WEMYSS AND THE GERMAN DELEGATES

. . Paris, March..l 6. ■U the meeting with- tho. German delegales at Brussels, Admiral Womyss without stating the Allies'. intentions after the surrender, paused, after reading the article demanding the ships, and theio was a moment of dead silence. Then Herr von Brawn.-chairman pf tho German delegation,, repliqd; _■ ■'Jcs, W consent to tlie surrender of tiiß slup- . ' jf AdmiralWemyss added: "It is-well, and then completed leading tho terms In- which- Germain- will reccive 300,000 tons of cereals and 70,000 tons of= fats monthlv'untirt'he harvest in September. The food is to-be paid l for firstly,aml temporarily, by -the use of-the'Germn ligold deposited* in' the Bank of Belgium-; secondlv, from the sale of German-- commodities exported from available supplies in Germahv; thirdly, -front freights Accruing from the use of German shipping; fourthly, from credits which Germany may establish in neutral countries.- •• i The German delegates plcnded strongly fnr the inclusion of condensed milk in the food shipments, as infant mortality had trebled in tho threo months.-; ■\s the blockade has been lifted on Baltic fishing, tho enemy will be ablo to get food from this source. The ban on goods which Germany is allowed lo export is not likely to be formidable, but I it is certain to include articles'manufactured by tho Vronch-and Belgian indus : tries which Germany maliciously deI siroyed— Aus.-N.Z. Cnblo Assn.