Geneva, Sept. 9, The League of Nations Councit o-day heard the report on the work of the mandates "commission. by Finnish Foreign Minister' Procope who, in the course of his speech, commented on the British. plan to link up the mandated territory in East Afvica with the neighbouring ish territories of Kenya and Uganda and stressed the fact that the British Government had. given he solemn pledge before taking the Accision, to consult the League's mandates conimission, Minister Procopo therefore ex: pressed the hope that it would be Possible for the commission to dear
session.
the matter in' its" October Dr, Curtias the German Foreign Minister made a short declaration reserving for himself the right return to this subject later there were in the report several points, notably that dealing with East Africa on which Germany had vertment observations and r¢~ ions to make, The Council shen adopted the commission's report.
Two other questions dealt with at this session referred to the Froe City of Danzig and the so-called railway protection detachments he Saar district, Roxarding the latter problem Signor Grandi, the talion" Foreign Minister whose sudden and quite unexpected departure from Geneva this evening Ted to a lot of rather confused con= Jecture, read his report.
Apparently by previous agreement. with Dr. Curtius, Briand thereupon proposed to postpone the discussion of this question until the German and French delegations have had opportunity to study the report.
The German Minister supported the motion and, at the same. time, stressed the German viewpoint that ince the Rhineland was now free any med protection of the Saar was entirely superfluous, Tt may be noted that in the forenoon the French and German Foreign Ministers had a preliminary conversation at which, it is understood, the Saar question came in for special attention, It is therefore hoped that fan agreement will be reached with-cut any undue dificulty.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, Geneva, Sept. 9, The Council of the League of Nations has resolved to convene an international Conference here in 1981 with a view to the suppressing of counterfeit currency.—Reuter,
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