LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1920, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

: AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE'. NEW ZEALAND AN ABSENTEE(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The International Labour Office of the League of Nations notifies twentyone States will attend the Conference -n Genoa on 15th June, to discuss matters particularly concerning mercantile mar ■ j„e. Die official notice specifies a few States are not attending as the questions are of no interest to them. It directly singles the absentation of New Zealand asj the most remarkable, although the Dominion replied to certain investigatory questions. The circulated notice describes the special positions obtaining in New Zealand, owing to an arrangement between New Zealand Seamen’s Association and Federation of ship owners, also other conditions. Ihe Japanese Delegation will he extraordinarily large.

AMERICAN VIEW. rAUSTRALIAN Sr N.Z. OAlti.E ASSOCIATION! A REUTER.! , (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.! LONDON, May 29. The American Ambassador, Mr Davis, addressing the International Law Con ference meeting at Portsmouth, urged American differences regarding the League of Nations should no tbe taken as evidence of the unwillingness of United States to join the free peoples of the world in establishing just rules for international conduct. He argued that an advance of international law had been obstructed by two diametrically opposite schools of thought; namely extreme Nationalism. Referring to the question of maritime law, which was included in the agenda of the Confer, encc, Mr Davis declared German unrestricted submarine warfare not only violated all recognised canons of the Law of- Nations, but the immemorial rule of the Sea itself, which gave every ship in distress the right of assistance