he
added,
was
the
great
obj:ct
sat
farth
in
the
covenant.
Tie
council
vary properly hal
no:t
rushed
the
mai-
ter,
but had
eaiiaborated
with
the
cc -
ference
of
Ambassadors
in
Paris.
He
admitted
that the guestion of the Leagues
competency
which
had
been
raised
by
italy,
was grave
and
could
not
be
left
unsettled.
He appealed
to
the
League,
and
to Jtaly
to
reach
a
solution
which
wonid
not infringe the national
pride
of
Italy and
at the
same
tim>
would
leave
unitpaired
the aatho-ity
of
the
Li-agu»
upon
which
to a great
extent,
he
believ-
ed
the future
lLones
of
the
wor
d
were
centered,
Londan,
Sept
17th.—Acerrdinge
to the
Rome correspoiiont
of the Central News
it is semi-officially
stated
that
peading
a
veply from belgrade
tae
ltalian
Govern-
nient
will take
measures
to
help
Fiume
surmount
the
present
crisis.
Such
mea-
sures
however,
will
be
of
an
eernomie
and fivanecial
character,
in
no
sense
hos-
tile.
or
caleulated
to
-causz2
a
rupture
with Juroslavia,
Gieneva,
Sept.,
17ih.--(Fiuamne).
The
walian
and
Juze
Slavia
Goveromeuls
have
filed
with
the
Secretary
of
the
League
of Nations,
for
registraiion
and
nubdlication,
the treaty
of Rapullo
signed
in
1920 and
the
comnicmentary
conven-
tion of Santa
Margherita
of
1922,
which
providel
the
terms
of
settlement
of the
Fiume
uaffair.
Leacue
circles
interpret
this
action,
whieh
fuifiils
articie
13 oi
the
l.eague
covenant,
as
a
favourable
siyn,
indicating
the
probahilily
that
the Fiume
controversy
wouid
be settled
by direct
negotiations
between
the
two
governments,
Belgrade,
Septemb
v 17th.—While
Jugo
Slavia
was celebrating
the fitth
auniver-
sary of the capture
of
Monastir
and
the
piercing of the
Saloniki
front,
news
was
spread
today
to
the
«effzct
ti:at
Jugo
Slavia
had
scored
a
diplomatic
viciory
over
Jtaly.
As
ihe
matter
was
repre-
sented
here,
the
octogenarvian
Premier
Pachitch,
builder
of
Jupo
Slavia,
had
beaten
the young
and aggressive
Musso-
lini
on
points
in
the
duel
over IMiume,
Italy
wili
have
Fiume,
public
opinion
agrees,
but she
will
pay
for
it by
conse-
quences
on the Itaian Littoral
which the
Jugo
Slavs eonsider
an
adequate
=quiva-
lent and it is ennfidently predicted
by the
Jugo
Slavs
that
the
port
to
be
developed
in Lhe vieinity of Fiume
will *‘make
the
grass
grow
on
Fiame’s
quay’”
within
two years.
Details
concerning
the
re-
sumption
of negotiations
between
Jugo-
Slavia and
Italy
are
being
kept
secret
by the Foreign Office and
the
names
of
the
negotiators
are
withbeld,
but
it
is
generally
believed
that ¢onversations
are
being carried
on by Pachiteh
and
IMusso-
lini personally.
(‘eneva,
Sept.
17th.—The
machinery
of
> League
of
Nations
whirled
today
as never
before.
The Delegaies attacked
problems
of vast interest
and
the
Coun-
=1
. RO
A vy
cil of tho League,
in
a
noteworthy
pub-
liz session,
frankiy dabited
the
quastion
of dtgiv's ratusdl
to
recaznizy
ths
ewm-
petepey
of the Leazuo
in the
Greeo
Ital-
ian ¢
Is.
The
famous
article
ten as the
covenant
furnished Yenewed
interost
be-
fore the eommissinon
on
amendments
to
the
¢ venant,
when
Senor
Alvarez,
the
Chilian diplomat,
presented
a
poweriul
defenze of the
Monroz
Doectrine.
which
he
leclared
was
worth
mora
to the
Unii-
ed
Stqiox
than article
10 of the
covenant
éverevill
80, - Andihis
wasan
hes
em-
Dhasiz-d,
beeaavs
the
United
Statas
na-
val and
military
forces
stood
ready
to
enforce
this
doeirv.
2, whieh
forbad:
any
Eurvopean
State
fiom
interfoerine
in
a
territorial
sense
in
the
affairs
of
the
United
States
contient.
There
nceurred
a lively discussihn
on
the question
of
the
niroposed
pact
for
mutasl
assistance,
which
the
commiszsion
on
the
reduection
of armanents
wiil
lator
submit
to
the
ass
mbiv.
Itisa
project
aimed
at
the
proventing
of
war.
N
derision
was
taken
tod:y o
the
issa: of the compsten-
ev of the
covenant
which
Italy
had
do-
fled.
Signor Salanura
asked
for
tino
in
which
o reply,
bat
Lord
Robert
Conil
wilite insisting
that
this
gnestion
maust
bs
cettied
to
avoid
a
future
misun-
lerstanding,
d:elarod
that
he
wanted
tha
warld
to
2319
v that
thoe
Comaaeil
had
ful
Biled
it
full
oblix tivvx 4
the
dffane
It had
not rushaed
in maldly
and
insis el
ph
the
rient
of intervention
hie
Byl
calmiy,
tu observance
of
tue
fundamont-
al aim of the
eavenan
eqliaborated
with
th..
Council of Ambassidors
and
had
se-
cured
an
2wicable
settiemenr
of the
esn-
flict.
Caitle’s
support
of
the
Monroe
Doctrine
came
when
the
sub-eHrmmittee
presenied
a
resolution,
tfounded
on
the
Canadian
amendaneat
and
calculated
to
interpent
previsaly
the cclabeated
actiod
10.
The
resolution
woien
was
warnly
supported
by
M.
M:cn>lia,
the
Belgian
j'liiw‘ aal
oth E,
82t
toeih
thi:
tre
Council
must
take
into
zccount
the
goo-
graphical
and
special
conditions
of
each
State,
if
it
believed
niiii'ary
measures
sheuid
be
resorted
to
because
of areres-
sion
and
that
ihe
parhamon
ary
autho-
rities
of
each
country
must
decide
to
what extent,
if zny, they
shoaid
help
(o
preserve
a:other
country’s
independ-
ence,
There
were
many
references
to
ex President
Wilson
and
the
(nited
Staies
during the discussion,
whieh
even-
tualiy was
adjourned.
The French
ele-
gate asked
that all ‘‘make haste slowly”’,
as
he deemed
article
10 the heart
of the
covenant,
which
should
be
changed,
if
at all, with
the
greatest
care.
Today’s
consideration
of
the
pact
of mutual
as-
sistance
was
devoted
to
article
6, which
organiZzed
regional
alliances
between
states
as
a
feature
of the general
guar-
antee
pact,
ltaly
opposed
such
iocal
alliances
and
Japan
wus
hostile
to them
vnless
they
were
strictly
defensive
in
character.
M.
Matsada
said they
tend-
ed
to
create
international
distrust
and
strueg
a
severe
hlow
at
the
authority
of the
league,
beeause
they
diminished
ceniidence
in
the League’s
pacific
mis-
sicn,
No acticn
was
taker
on
the
ques-
tion.
It
was
remarked
that
both
M.
Lebrun,
ex
French
Minister
arnd
M. Ja-
houx,
who represented
:he working men
cn the
commmiission
for
arman.ent
limita-
tion,
supported
the
plan
of
subsidiary
accords
arreement
between
states
as
the
best
means
of relieving
tension
and
paving
the
way
for the
cutting
down of
armanient
burdeuns.
Fuoreka,
Calif.,
Sept.
ITith.—
A
sharp
earthiquase
shock
was
felt
here
today,
beginnine
with
small
vibratiors,
aceu-
mulating n viclence
and
egding abrupt-
ly.
Henrietta,
Okla., Sent.
17th.—The Klu
Klux
Klan
conslitutes
an
“‘znarchistic
force” in Oklahoma
and
must
be driven
{flom
the
state,
Governor
Walton
io'd
an
audience
of perhaps
1,000
jersons,
many
of them
delecates
to
the
state
ja-
bour eanvention,
Lere
today.
The
fight
on the Klan
is
no longer
a
religious
af-
fair.
‘The orzavization
is
atten
pling to
coatrol
the
Government
of
the
entire
state,
the
Government
declared.
The
“lulsa
World””
is
backicg
him
in
his
fizht
against
the
invisible
empire,
al-
theuch
neuariv
all
the
other editors,
re-
pocicrs
and
newspapermen
in
Oklahems
are
members
of
the
Klan.
Explaining
his Saturday
night
declaraiion
of ‘abso-
lute inatial
law”’ for
Cklahoma
eity, he
cald
that
such
action
was
necessary
to
stop
the Klar grand
jury ¢ 12t
had been
cailed
(o convene
(caay.
NEW
YORK, Sept.
18th.
Flour,
(hard
winter clears
$5.85.
- -
hard
winter siraiohts
$5.75
Meal, Kiledried
per
100 fcunds
$2 25.
New Season’s
Pork
per barrel
$37.00.
Heavy
Mess
Papk
per
bri. $24
75
ougur—Urystals
maximum
per
1060
lbs.
b
18
Mclosses
Supar
89
maximum
5.75.
Cotton,
Middimg, Upland,
at
Liverpool
per
tb.
17 71-100 d.
rxchange,
New
York
and
lLondon,
60
days’
sight
$4.514
Exchange
New
Ycerk
and London,
sight
$4.538
LONDON,
Sept.
18th.
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
nominal
per
¢t
565.
od. —o6ls.
od.
"
Muscavado
nominal
per
cwt. 40s.
Od-425.0d.
"
White Java’s ¢if United Kingdam
245.
3d.
Demerara
Rum
per oal.
nominal.
Trinidad
Coeoa,
goed
middiing red
per
cwt. 475. Od—43s.
Ud.
Cotton, good miedium
West
Indian Sea
Isiand
at Liverpool, per
Ib. 21d.
‘
Bank of England Rate of Discount
per
cent
4.
Consols
583.
Three
percent.
Rentes
in Parie Fes.
57.90.