Frou Ovr Ows Paris, Sept. 19.
What the "Journal" correspondent at Geneva describes as a delightful example of Chinese humour. was given at yesterday's session of the Judicial Committee of the League of Nations. Two years ago it was decided that the International Court of Justice should sit permanently and that the judges must res "The Hague," with appropriate salaries. The only country chjecting to this change is Cuba, and he opposition has Meld up the whole plan. When the matter came bs fore the committee, M. Pol (Greece) expressed himself such severity thut the Cuban delegate, Senor Ferrara, originally an Italian, jumped to his feet and asked what right M. Politis had to criticize the decisions of a free country? What would happen to the League of Nations if it tried to impose its-will on its member the deficiency, he resolved to cone coot a star. of robbery.
Madagascar Flight We ere so accustomed nowadays to the idea of long distances being covered regularly by aeroplanes that we are apt to forget the chances that have to be taken by the pilot ard his companions, They are dependent on the resistance of every part of a complicated, machine. Some essential piece may without the slightest and they find themselves imminent danger of losing their tives. An instance of this ever present risk is given by Capt Goulette, the commander navigator of the machine which made the flight from Paris Madagavear, "He was accompanied by Sergt. Major Marchesseau as pilot and Sergt. Bourgeois mechanic, The president, Signor Sei endes ured to culm the Cuban deputy. Other countries rushed in to conciliate, and China was the first of them, Dr. Wa, speaking in English remarked quite seriously that he was mach interested by what M. Politis had said and still more by what had fallen from Senor Ferrara, and while he quite ssympathi put forward by the representative of Gaba were most important, Dr, Wa added that it wax highly desirable to avoid making the League of Nations meetings into scenes of discord. How he must have enjoyed this deft leg-pulling of Western civilization
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