London, Nov. 27.
Lance-Corporat Arthur Charles Mortimer, Ist, Ba. Welch Regiment, wag sentenced to death at the Winchester Agsizes to-day for the murder: of Miss Phyllis Oakes by running her down with a motor car "Accused. was charged" with having! Knocked down. robbed and assaulted three young women while they were yciing along lonely roads between August 4 and 7, and that, on August he caused the death of Miss Oakes by running her down, Counsel for the defence, in address ing the jury today, argued that, assuming Mortimer was the man who drove the "death car," he undoubtedly was an. epileptic. While he was Addressing the Jury, Mortimer's young, wife, who was waiting in the entrance hall' of the court, occupied her Janxlous moments by teaching her baby to walk.
"Accused was arrested following wild 65-mile an hour drive through the narrow streets of Guildford in Sir Samuel went on to warn his audience against an inevitable {tendency to consider the position of the League solely in elation to some immediate problem. The thad two functions. he said, "The first is to prevent war by re-Imoving the underlying causes which lead to war. The second. function [comes into play when war has broken out. There can surely be no doubt which function isthe constructive tone, or to which the efforts of statesmen should be directed.
"We must never lose sight of the fact that the future of the League. {a future upon which the hopes of all those who believe in it as the living Jembodiment of their ideals are #0 ardently set, depends upon its ability perform the constructive and statesmanlike part of ite task, and jupon the readiness' of its members {to use it for constructive work.
"The causes which lead to international strife are many, and it woud be hazardous to forecast the nature jot the problems with which the League may be confronted in the future, but, it seems probable that greater use may be made of the resources which the League possesses for considering and dealing with \économic questions, and the study spent in considering origins and means of settlement of economic problems will assuredly not be wasted."
Support from Dominions The Foreign Secretary recalled his speech before the League Assembly, jond his suggestion for an inquiry into the question of colonial raw materials which, he said, he regarded as an essential contribution to the future Jorganization of peace.
in conclusion, ihe spoke of the support and comradeship which the great Dominions had #0 constantly offered to the foreign policy of the Mother [Country and which he adduced as proof of the contention advanced jeanier in his speech that British foreign policy is a natural and spontaneous expression of qualities. deeply inherent in the British race. "Wireless through Reuter.
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