NATIONS IN DISPUTE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 1

NATIONS IN DISPUTE

RUMANIA AND HUNGARY POOR PEACE AFTER WAR DISCUSSION IN THE LORDS British Wireless —Press Assn Copyright RUGBY, Thursday. In the House of Lords Lord Newton asked the Government if it were the case that the Rumanian Government had officially declared its refusal to submit to the decisions of the mixed arbitral tribunal that had been set up under the Treaty of Trianon. He said very important issues were involved in the question. The conditions of the treaty should be fulSlled, particularly those parts relating to the property of the Hungarians in those parts of the former Austrian Empire which had been annexed to Rumania.

Lord Cushendun, formerly Mr. Ronald McNeill, the British delegate to the League of Nations in succession to Viscount Cecil, replied for the Government. He expressed regret that Lord Newton had raised the question. The matter had been referred to the Council of the League, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Allairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, had been asked to act as rapporteur, in case the matter was still undecided. The report would go before the Council next month, when it was hoped it would be possible to decide the matter one way or the other. In these circumstances it was not possible or proper for the British Government, in anticipation, to go into the merits of the case. PEACE LIKE VULTURE A Press Association message says Lord Buckmaster spoke on the matter.

He said Hungary deserved the pity of everyone. Instead of peace descending like a dove, it had come like a vuit"re, tearing her limb from limb. Lord Carson said the claim made by Hungary to have the issue tried by an international court was unanswerable.

After Visco-nt Haldane, a former Lord Chancellor, and Lord Phillimore, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, had spoken, the Earl of Balfour, in replying, appealed t “the four greatest orpamema of the High Court” to restioin their comments until after the League Council had met, when the subject could be discussed with better Knowledge. It was an extremely complicated question and would be thoroughly investigated by a competent tribunal in the course of a very few weeks.—A. and N.Z.