New Britain herald., 1925-10-30
FIRST EFFORT OF LEAGUE A SUCCESS Council Adjourns After Stopping
 Balkan War Threat MEMORIAL TO WILSON
Briand, Commenting on Session. Dcdicates It As q Memorial to Woodrow Wilson Who Conceived Idea of League of Nations.

Paris, Oct. 30 E)-The council of the league of nations, hurriedly summoned on Monday last to pre- vent threatened hostilities between Greece and Bulgaria. adjourned to- day with It's task accomplished.
 Official modification from allied military experts on the scene was presented at the final meeting that the Greeks had completed their evacuation of Bulgarian soil eight hours before the time limit set by the council.
 commission of inquiry, headed by Sir Horace Rumbold, now will proceed to the spot, investigate the incidents leading up to the Greek occupation of Bulgarian territory and report its findings to the De- cember meeting of the councl.
 Memorial To Wilson.
 The closing of this weeks ses- sion-the thirty-sixth held by the council, was marked by moving address by Aristide Briand, the president, who declared the league existence had been fully justified b! this settlement alone.
 In respectful tone which moved his hearers, M. Briand dedicated the session just closed to the memory oI Woodrow Wilson, "who proposeC and realized the leaguu of nations and of Leon Bourgeois, the French statesman who presided over th' peace conference commission whicl adopted the league covenant
 The members of the council wen on record as insisting that all na lions henceforth must follow the ex umple of Bulgaria and Greece, suo hitting their disputes to the friend lv offices of the league.
 Former Secretary Austen Cham berlain of Great Britain declared that a threat of war anywhere would be regarded as a menace to all, an' that the councils handling Of tn Halkan dispute was an example o how 1t would in the future use Il powers, authorized by the leagu covenant, for concilation, restoratlo of friendly relations, removal C causes of conflict, and preservat1o of world peace.
 Jap Delegate Speaks
 A notable address was made b
 Viscount Ishii of Japan. who a
 tributed the successful solution
 the Balkan crisis to the immense 1T fuence of the security agreement
 negotiated at Locarno, which, he dt
 clared, had strengthened the leagu
 The Versailles treaty had not COT [ ferred true peace on the world, l
 continued, and to eliminate il
 nightmare of war which invaded a
 chanceleries, the statesmen ha labored indcfatigably for six year
 Their efforts had been crowned
 the agreements of Locarno, whic
 he said, affect peace in both wes
 ern aAd eastern Europe.
 Although Japan was only a spe ] tator of her geographical situation Niscount Ishii added, I've rejoice tn the pacific ideas we have dissemi =, ated in the league assemb II have been incorporated in tho u Uocarno) treaties, and hope tn
 will serve as models for similar pac Y in other parts of the world" u Replying to the Japanese state % 'I men, NJ. Briand emphasized that. = the delicate Locarno negotiatio = had succeeded, it was because o the participants If the conferen a took care to link them with t
 spirit of the league covenant. 10 When I met Chancellor Luth L. (of Germany in our first prIva Q interview" said M. Briand, "I tt h him we would succeed or fail {
 cordingly as we perceived the ma l. nitude of our task, and that If pr talked as German and I as s. Frenchman we perhaps would I le succeed at all.
 IS I've achieved not only secur or between us, but also planted VI. germ of world peace, becau VI dropping our nationalities. lg talked as Europeans"