Elections to the League Council:
Irish Free State Canditature Geneva, Sept. 16.
Poland, Chile and Rumania were eleciod members of the. League Council for three years, Colombia, the Netherlands and China for two years, and San Salvador, Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia for 12 months.
The Assembly voted in favour of Poland's re-eligibility by 36 votes The Irish Free State and Canada obtained 10 and 2 votes, in contrast with between 27 and 46 votes cast for the elected members.
Only eight members were elected at the first count. Czecho-Slovakia, and Persia received respectively 23 and 20 votes, insufficient to qualify, A further ballot gave the seat to Czecho-Slovakia, Later.
The new Council held its first public meeting this afternoon, Dr. Benes, who presided, comed Dr. Stregemann and' other new members of the Council and hoped they would" extend the same ce-operation as up to the present in the Assembly.
The Council agreed in principle to hold a conference in 1927 to consider the establishment of an' Into national Relief Union, and also solved to request the representative of Brazil, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay to continue to the Disarmament Conference. ter,
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