London, July 23.
The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, announced in the House of Commons to-day that he had just Jearned with great satisfaction that the Italian Government had now formed the president of the Com mittee of the League of Nations 1 it would enact the necessary met sures to prevent the export of war material from Italian territory to Bolivia or Paraguay.
"There is now reason to hope: said Sir John, "that all the other governments who have accepted the League's proposals in principle will take the necessary steps without delay.
Prior to this statement, Sir John Simon, answering a question, said Chancellor of Austria, Dr. Englebert Dolifuss, was paid' by President Mikias during the funeral service for Dr. Dolifuss who was laid to rest in the Heitzing cemetery yesterday.
President Miklas," in his. speech from the Rachaustrasse, said that Dr, Dolifuss had saved Austria from losing her soul and had thus pre-Vented the country from becoming the battlefield of Austria and from inal extinction in Central European chaos, 'The late Chancellor, he declared, had not only saved Austria, but the peace of Burope. He had sealed these facts with his' blood as martyr to Austrianism,
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