Geneva, May 12:
Mexico City, May 12.
The 59th Session of the League of Nations Council was opened today with the customary meeting in camera which dealt with administrative questions. The chairman of the Council, M. Marinkovich, the Jugoslavian "Foreign Minister, first welcomed the new members of the Council, namely, the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Curtius, the Japanese Ambassador at Brussels, Mr. Nagai and the Persian delegate, Khan Ala, At the first public meeting of the Council to which were admitted press representatives and public spectators, the first speaker, Dr. Curtius, speaking in French reported on the first items of the! agenda, the Tariff Holiday Convention and the next meeting of the League's Economic Council. stated that the Convention had been ratified by eighteen stages and expressed the hope that other countries would soon follow. It was! then moved and unanimously agreed upon that all future arrangements: in regard to the Convention be left to the Economic Council to be summoned at the discretion of its chairman, 'The British Foreign Secretary, 'Mr. Henderson, in the course of brief speech,' emphasized Great Britain's anxiety for the improvement of economic relations between European countries and expressed the hope that the next Tariff Holiday negotiations would be attended by as many non-European countries: as possible.
Mr. Henderson also created a small sensation when dealing with the efforts to ce-ordinate the Con-tenant of the League of Nations with the Kellogg (Anti-War) Pact, which will be considered by the Under the leadership of President Ortiz Rubio, 395,000 citizens of the Republic of Mexico will take a national census of their fellows tomorrow and for the two following The work will be without pay.
President Rubio will himself ask the required questions of his staff in Chapultapec Castle, Each of them must tell, from private secretary to charwoman, his or her name, age, birthplace, religion, marital status, [education and various other facts.
In the federal district, 55,000 enumerators will count noses in Mexico jand neighbouring districts. In the states dnd territories 345,701 will perform the same task. The officials were selected by the census department and notified that they were! expected to give their labour to thi work without remuneration, as a public duty. The governor of each state will follow the example of the president and personally take the leensus of his staff.
Despite the unpaid labour thus being conscripted for the census, the project is expected to cost. the Government about G. $1,750,000.
Tu addition to the census of population, statistics _concerning_ agriculture and industry have been collected since April 15,.with 3,000 enumerators engaged onthe work.
It will require a year to compile and publish the results, according to Juan Ballesteros, general director of the census department—United ress.
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