LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

REQUEST FOR EARLY MEETING

AMERICAN SENATORS AND

THE TREATY

CRITICISMS IN JAPAN

fiv Telegraph-Press Association-Consriglit i Paris, October 4. .! The I'nris Conference adopted a rcso- | lution- requesting the Government to j seek an agreement with President Wil- ' j son when America ratifies the Treaty, j to convoke an immediate meeting of the' j League of Nations; and that'a commie- i sioa pf the French delegates should pro- j i|iose measures to lead to general disarm* i anient. The French Senate has recommended the immediate summoning of the League of Nations .in accordance: with - 1 JI. Clemenceau's letter to Colonel House. - Aws.-j{ Z. Cable Assn. , ,

AMERICA'S VOTE ON THE TREATY MUCH DEBATED- QUESTION. 1 Boston, Ottober 4. ' A. Republican convention unanimously adopted a resolution in favour of the prompt ratification of tlio Treaty in its unamended form. Senator Lodge, who was present, protested, and ■ said he would ■ demand changes in the Treaty.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Now York, Octobcr 4 The Washington correspondent of the Now York "Times" states that Republican and Democratic leaders predict that the Senate's vote on the question of ratification of the Treaty will conio about on November I.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable' A6sn. Tlio Washington correspondent of the New York, "Times" says that Senator Hitchcock stated that tlip majority of the Senate appreciate the fact that Germany would not accept amendments -of the Treaty, because she wishes to see the United - States ns an outlet for settlement. The Allies will not accept amend, ments because they would endanger their settlement with Germany. Thus it waa necessary for tlio United States to have an unconstitutional peace with Germany, or to negotiate a new treaty, under which she would 1 lose the enormous ad< vantages in trade and shipping with Gej< many which the Allies enjoy.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

, JAPAN AND THE TREATY DAY OF M ACHI AVEIjLIA N DIPLOMACY PAST. , New York, October 5. A dispatch from Toldo statce that the - Prime Minister, Mr. Hnra, in a speech, sniit tifo day of Machiavellian diplomacy was past, and the. new ora of open diplomacy hod arrived, with international affairs managed by the co-operation of, the Powers, whether the _ old school of Japanese diplomacy liked it or. not. 1 The Treaty would probably be ratified at no distant date, although it was probable that its operation, would 'bring up lieW problems that would require axtreme care m consideration. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

"LOUD-MOUTEBD, DEMAGOGUES Off U.S. SENATE." New York, October ,5.. Tho Toldo correspondent of the Ncv> Yorlc "Evening News" states that the Japanese . Press is making it plain that it considers, the United States Senaiirs who are attacking Japan to be- loudmouthed demagogues, whose utterances may bd taken as merely ranting— Aus.N.Z. Cable A<sn.