LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1924, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] PLAN TO PREVENT WAR. GENEVA, Sept. It! M. Linos, of Czrclm-Slovnkin, submitted to the Sub-Committee a draft if the protocol of arbitration to prevent Willi It provides that when both parties agree as to arbitration, tin* League's Council will send a mixed civil and military ccmniissiim to each country, fur ihe purpose of organising ileiniliInrised zones. Other lYinniissions will watch against mobilisation and the increasing of armaments. A country refusing arbitration will be considered

an aggressor. '! lie protocol provides military and economic sanctions against a country rejecting an arbitral award. The League's Council will appoint a commission to study the most efficacious means of blockading an ag,gross,,r. Members of the League signing the protocol will .notiiy the Council what natal, military and air forces, also wliat economic and financial resources, they arc willing lo place at the League's disposal. All the signatories undertake to participate in tin international conference oil distilniament to be .summoned by the League within a year. PEACE PLANS. BRITAIN'S OBLIGATIONS. GENEVA. S«'pt. Hi. The llriti'h Delegation i> annoy,l at the premature leakage *>! the Belies plan. They cb.im the I'Toiic-h are disclosing secret negotiations, and adding others’which have not yet eventuated. Imping to pave the way suitably lot a French triumph. Tin* Britishers have summoned Fiiti-h journalists to explain the positnn. at which it was declared that the Reims document was not yet agreed upon, although it was tni,.' a modili 'd agreement had been reached. . The British are determined to '.'eject any plan involving Britain s naval m militai v forces by a pre-arranged formula. though limy have made it (leal that. 11l tile event of a situation sltnilur to 15)11 arising, wherein the world is threatened. Britain would unhesitatingly fulfil the League's Covenant pledges, and defend peace and rigid.

THK MANDATED LANDS. CF.NF.VA. Sent. I<The report of the Mandates Commis sion has passed the’ Committee. A resolution was carried recoin mending the earliest possible solutioi of tln* question of loans advances am tin* investment of capital in the man dated territories. , The resolution recalled the fact Uni the inhabitants are entitled to addres petitions to the League Cotmci . the I is expressed that the mandatorm will apply the Council’s resolutions re garding the terms of conventions re Litiim U. tli” liquor trallic. The de-in is expressed that the mandatory powers henc'.'lorlh shall, as far as possible depute the officials personally rcspoti slide for the administration ol the man dnted territories to represent them o: the Permanent .Mandates Cnmmis.-inii. Sir -I. Allen participated hi the do Ctlssioll.