LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1924, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

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11? kutkits T n i,ec nam s. ] DISARMAMENT PROTOCOL. (RewiVcd tliis (lav nl 0.2“) a.m I GENEVA. S.-pt. 28. Air Reties submitted tin* tliinl committee re] ant, indicating tin.' final shape of tin: disarmament prutuf.nl, n hit'll is (l('srril.".'(l as an imint'iist* advance on .a 11 %• 11 1 ill hitherto (lone. Article C established an nhlignliim not t orcsnrt to war and completes Article Ten of the Covenant. Thus the Council is competent to deal with every threat of war. Article Seven obliges tlie signatories to abstain from net ion fiilenlat'.'d to aggravate the dispute and entails sanctions. Thus the Council is invested with full powers of investigation into appeals against the violation of the' protocol and also is entrusted with the duty of calling on a guiltv sttite to remedy the offence and deciding the measure to terminate a situation threatenin'.' the world peace. The text does not define the nature of the preventative measures. Its elasticity permits the Council to take measures appropriate in each case. Any such decisions of the Council to he I v si twothirds majority. It will he the Council’s duty to recommend the several (Jovernmcnts concerned what effective military, naval and air force memhers of the League shall severally eontrihnte tawards an armed force usnlde to protect the Covenant. Mach i stale shall remain in possession of its forces and itself, not the Cotincil, shall direct them. AT. Tie nos explained that when the Council calls for signatories to enforce sanctions it will heroine a regulating lather than an advisorv Indy, hut not an executive hady. Ihe report concluded hy sulunitting a resolution mnnmcnding memhers of the League to accent the protocol and rc(|iiestiug the Council to convene an international conference for the reduction ul armaments at. Ceneva, and inviting the Council to immediately appoint a Committee to prepare a text for the armament Covenant mentioned ill the protocol.

Tn the course of di-eii-sion. Sir I. Alien saw lie did not object to the sanctions laid down, hut he asked for an explanation of the position nl nonsiguatorv states; also that if should he made clear which states would in advance furnish the information concerning the forces available. In the event, of sanctions were they the stales signing the protocol, or all memhers nl the ‘League. II these points were made clear, he thought, the protocol sntisiaetoi v so far as New Zealand is eoueeiu. oil. If New Zealand did rot sign the’ protocol it would leave her under existing obligations only. When A!. Hones finished explaining, tin,' Committee adjourned.

UNDISGUISED AI.AHAL (Rccci'-cd this day at 10.2.1 a.m.) LONDON. Soil. 28. A Riga correspon lent says the GerIlian derisii.n to seek admission to the League of Nations has created undisguised alarm in official Bolshevik circles. lie adds the latest reports indicate that .Soviet leaders have attempted hy pressure to restrain (formally from making what they claimed would he a fatal error and indications are I:iilurc. These efforts are exceedingly annoyed in .Moscow where I ears are openly expressed that (lormany’s entry means the development c f a new Kuropean international comhinat'oii. which h.v weakening the ties between llorliu and Moscow may seriously threaten Bolshevisms domination of Russia.