LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1925, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY OPENS. (Received this day at 0.30 a.rn.) LONDON. Sept. 7

Barely forty minutes sufficed for the opening of the League Assemhly. M. Painleve. a dapper little figure in a prey sidt read from notes an idealistic speech and he was .seldom interrupted with applause. 'I he speech was once punrtßaled with laughter. This was when lie referred to the partial agreement- preceding the adoption of t-he Protocol, or the Pact. hemp akin to children horn before their lather’s civil .status had properly been established. The Australian delegation as usual. was seated immediately adjtieeit' to the Presidential (lias in the same row a.s the British. The Xew Zealanders, Sir J. Allen leading, were seated well hack on the left side of the crowded hall. From the Dominion’s stand-point nothin" of pressing interest is likely to rise till the committees are reached. There is at present no indication of hast year's migration bombshell being revived, though among groups of delegates one often hears the ideal of International Control of Migration being discussed. Perhaps the most poignant feature of the lingo agenda is the item “Arbitration, Security, Reduction of Armaments’’ figures opposite the Devil's number. 13.