Chinese Proposal Being Opposed by Little Entente Delegates Geneva, Sept. 22.
The Chineze resolution to make more effective Article XIX of the Covenant of the League of Nation, which deals with the revision, of obsolete treaties, is giving eonsiderble diffealty to the sub-committee engaged in finding an agreed text for submission: to. the Assembly of the League. It will hold its fourt® sitting to-morrow.
The main opposition comes. from the "French "and Little Entente delegates, who fear that Germany vill seek' a revision of the peace treaties, though it is generally felt that the action of these delegates, if successful, will be deplorable from the point of view of the League.
Opponents of the resolution urge! that the Assembly should "receive with appreciation" and not "approve" the resoluticn—Reater.
Geneva, Sept, 23.
After four days' heated debate before the sub-committee of the! aridical Committee of the League of Nations the deadlock over the Chinese resolution continues.
The Chinese delegate, it will be remembered, demanded the appointment of a' special commission in order to deliberate on the applica tion of Article 19 of the Covenant! of the League of Nations as regards China's obsolete treaties. China is arguing that her treaties, in view of the changed conditions since they were drawn up, have become obsolate and that by their continuance they may become a danger to the peace of the world.
The premises on which application of Article 19 depends being thus given, China "considers herself entitled to profer the demand she has made.
The Chinese delegate is offering a stout resistance in the face of the attempts made to thwart the resolution which emanate chiefly from the delegates of the Powers of the! Little Entente who, by an applica tion of Article 19 have everything to Rose and nothing to gain—Trans Ocean Kuo Min.
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