Evening star., 1921-09-29
LEAGUE: WILL WISH
PARLEY GOODlUCK
Resolution Expressing Salts
/ faction Expected to Be
= Adopted.

6y me Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 29.-The good
wishes of the league Of nations for
the Washington conference on the
limitation of armaments will be off,
ciaIly expressed by the assembly II 1t
adopts, as Is considered most likely,
the report Of the disarmament COM
mittee. which so recommends. Lord
Robert Cecil put through the commit
tee a resolution providing that the as
sembly express it's satisfaction over
the fact that the Washington confer
Z ence will take up disarmament.
Recommendation that the assembly
of the league of nations appeal to its
members for credits to Russia Will not
be made by the Russian relief COM
mittee. it was announced here today.
The matter Of securing funds for Rus
sia and the organization Of relief
measures will be left entirely to the
conference to be held in Brussels soon,
and to welfare organizations.
Impossible to Open Credits.
The reason given for this decision
by committee was that various gov
ernments had found it impossible to
open new credits at this time.
When the assembly opened this
morning Mile. kristine Bonnevie of
Norway took the floor. and said she
had received full power to sign the
new white slave trade convention.
which was approved by the committee
having that subject under considera-
tion.
During the debate relative to the
white slave convention Mile. For
chammer of Denmark pointed out that
traffic in children was mentioned LOT
the first time in this agreement. She
said it modified and strengthened the
convention of 1910 on the same sub
ject.
The French delegation's objections,
which have been much commented
upon, were not made, because of op-
position to the object of the proposed
convention, Gabriel Hanotaux ex-
planned, but to the precipitancy with
which it was sought to put the modi-
fed convention into effect.
Committee Decision Defended.
A. j. Balfour of Great Britain de-
Tended the committees decision to
ask immediate signature. The British
draft, he said. was based on report
from the white slave conference held
in June. This project raises the age
of consent to twenty years, reinforces
the emigration and immigration reg
ulations in this direction and provides
greater facilities for the extradition
traffic.
The league of nations leaders
breathed more freely when the as
sembly passed all danger of the inn
mediate detection of another South
American state. Bolivia's acceptance
out her request for a revision of the
treaty of 1904 has ended the matter
80 far as this assembly is concerned.
Not Entirely Eliminated.
It is learned in Bolivian circles that
the conflict cannot be considered as
entirely eliminated from the league.
as Bolivia will Immediately set about
sembly to make it conform to the
provisions of the covenant; then she
will renew her demand to the next
assembly that it invite Chile to con-
slider revision of the treaty, which
Bolivia holds is no longer applicable
to the situation between the two
countries.
Speaking in the assembly of the
league of nations on resolution ex-
pressing the regret of the assembly
finances had been delayed for reasons
which it hoped would shortly be re-
moved. A. j. Balfour of Great Britain
said the allies had done all they could
for the restoration of Austria
Hopes Courage VIII Stand.
All of them had released their liens
to that end, he recalled, and he hoped
that the Austrian people would not
lose their courage. He appealed to all
the countries, in the general interest
of Europe and for the credit of civili-
zation, to do all they could to enable
Austria to regain her feet.
The failure of the United States to
consent to the postponement of her
claims against Austria, Mr.. Balfour
pointed out. was due to the required
constitutional formalities rather than
to any hesitancy to join in the move
ment He hoped, he said, that these
formalities would soon be complied
with