LEAGUE OF NATIONS STATUS OF DOMINIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17689, 29 July 1919, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS STATUS OF DOMINIONS.

EX-PRESIDENT TAFT'S PROPOSAL. WASHINGTON, July 25. Taft is urging an amendment of the League of Nations Covenant to prohibit membership on the League Council to dominions and the self-govern-ing colonies where the Motherland is represented, and vice versa. The amendment is regarded as aimed directly at the >. nw i ? mpire - Senator Lodge endorses Air laft s proposal. Senator Moses forecasts an attempt to reduce the representation of the British ivmpire in the League Assembly.—Reuter. THE SHANTUNG AGREEMENT. PRESIDENT WILSON'S HAND FORCED. . WASHINGTON, July 23. It is understood that President Wilson informed the Republican Senators that he was compelled to give German privileges in Shantung to Japan, otherwise Japan would have withdrawn from the Peace Conference. Britain and France in 1914 had promised Shantung to Japan in order to induce Japan to enter into the war. Ho stated that when the matter rose up at the, Peace Conference these two lowers asked him (President Wilson) to deal with the situation, and he found it necessary to keep this promise to Japan. —A. and N.Z. Cable. SOLDIERS ON THE RHINE. A MATTER OF WIVES. BERLIN, July 21. beyeral thousand American soldiers, proceeding home from the Rhine front, asked their commanders to permit their brides and fiancees to accompany them. Permission was refused, on the ground that American-German marriages cannot be recognised before the American ratification of the Peace Treaty. in. -rn- ~ LONDON, July 26. The War Office will permit the wives of officers and of other ranks to join their husbands on the Rhine at their own expense.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE NAURU MANDATORY. PREVIOUS MESSAGE CORRECTED. a t , c WELLINGTON, Julv 28. On July 5 there appeared a cable message in the New Zealand press, originates from Pans dealing with a convention under which the Imperial, Australian, and New Zealand Governments are to take over the interests of the Pacific Phosphate Company winch up to the present has worked the deposits at Nauru Island. In the message an error crept in in transmission, and the message read: "The company holds little that the war did not invalidate. The message as it was originally lodged, and should have read but "for the mutilation in transit, stated "the company holds a 'title' which the war did not invalidate,"