Show I 8 COUNTRIES ES MISS SS U. U S. S AT MEETING OF NA NATION ION V LEAGUE London I ebl 11 T tho po o council connell of or tho the league league- of nations alIens formally opened ft Us Its meeting here hero at noon today Arthur Arlhur I i 1 J representing Great Britain assumed tho chair on th tho th L su of oC l Leon con Bourgeois representative of or I France In his speech of or welcome to the delegates Mr Ir Balfour Balfour said there was only ono One blot on tho the n and that wait wag that there thero were e eight nations represented d instead of nine He lie said ald that it way was not desirable to touch on tho the absence of or the tho United States but he referred to it as aft marring the symmetry symmetry sym sym- metry of or the original plan of or tho the league ue M. M r. r nour Bourgeois In reply added a n. word of regret that tho tam nations represented were anI only eight In number The nations na na- represented at tho the were Belgium Brazil BraI Great Britain France Greece Ital Italy Japan and anti Spain London Feb 11 John W TV Davis Th American ambassador or to the court of or St. St lames James will not attend either cither the I second meeting of oC the council of or tho the league of or nations or tho the meeting of or the premiers of or Great Greal Britain France and Italy which will be held her early earh I next wee week unless ho lie receives Instructions instructions from Washington according ln to an announcement at tho the American embassy em em- bass bassy |