CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

lUSTRAMAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, j ANNUAL REPOIIT CRITICISED. ' LONDON, September G. j The Australian Press Association correspondent at Geneva states that Lord Robert Cecil discussed the League Council’s annual report. He made an impassioned appeal for increased activities on the part of the League in the promotion of settlements of international feuds. He said he admitted the League’s province was to promote a new peace and not to clear up the cld j feuds that were legacies of the Great War. Nevertheless, he contended that it would he impossible for the League 1o ignore the international quarrels, which delayed peace. He instanced the Greeco-Turkish war, concerning which he said there had been international negotiations, but not an appeal to the League to intervene.

Lord Cecil said he considered the League of Nations should have carried out such negotiations, or at least they should have been conducted by other organisations under the supervision of the League.

Similarly, in regard to Russia, he regretted that the League had not intervened in a: more decisive manner in connection with the famine. Had the League done so, he said, it might have mitigated the horrors of the famine, and might have opened the door to a renewal of intercourse between Russia and other nations, without raising any of the political or economic quesions, which had defied settlement at Genoa and at The Hague. The Russian and Austrian conditions, he said, were only a part of an economic crisis that was affecting the whole world. A competent authority had stated that the fall of the German mark had by no meansc reached its limit yet. It was only a question of a few months before the financial situation of Germany would approximate to that of Austria, and this would react, not only upon the rest of Europe, but upon every country in the world. LONDON, September 7.

At the League of Nations, Sir W. Steel Maitland (who is a New Zealand delegate) submitted a. resolution, for future consideration, demanding the League's intervention to check any recrudescence of slavery in Africa since the war. GENEVA, September 6. Clause 10 of the League of Nations Convention which has met with strong objection in America, is now likely to he amended, by the substitution of regional guarantees, under which the nations having mutual obligations to each other should be grouped.

TO HELP RUSSIA. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) GENEVA, September 7. Dr Nansen speaking for Norway, asked the League to send an International Commission to Russia, not for humanitarian, but for economic purposes in order to restore Russia to the world’ ■producing orbit.