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Show I LEAGUE TB 1 I Hi DISPUTE Acceptance By Finland and vj Sweden of Intervention j Has Big Meaning PARIS. Sept. 18. (By The Asso-! elated Press.) Finland and Sweden have agreed to accept the Intervention of the league of nations for the settlement set-tlement of the dispute between them; aa to the possession of the Aland Islands, lying at the mouth oi the Gulf of Bothnia becccn the iwq countries A commission will be ap-P" ap-P" pointed by the cpceeultve council of the league to Investigate the que- i tion and reach an eail decision. The acceptance of the council as arbitrator Is regarded by the member' of the council as a long s:op toward the recognition of the league by the nations of the world as a medium for the prevent Ion of future wars. The decision of Finland and Sweden j to accept the Intervention of the leug.ie was taken at. today's mcouiiK of the! council, which was attended by HJal-, mar Branding, the Swedish premier, and M. Knrkncll. i he Finnish foreign minister The couicl adopted t he-report he-report of the committer of interna-; tlonal Jurists which had been ap-pointed ap-pointed to determine if the league had Jurisdiction in the case HAS RI;iir 'IX) ACT The committee determined that un-der un-der articles III and XI of the league covenant It had the right io act. Article III deals with tho functional oi the assembly of the league of na-1 tlons and provides thru it may deal at Its meetings with any matter ' within the sphere of action of the league or affecting the pear.' of the world " Article Ar-ticle XI is that in which it Is declared that it is ' the friendly ' right of each I member of the league to bring to the) attention of the council any elrcum-v elrcum-v ncc, whatever afeotlng International relations which threatens to dlstur). international peace or the rood understanding under-standing between nations upon whirh lie:iee depends, and also that any war! or threat of war la a matter of concern con-cern to the whole league and that it shall take any action that shall be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard safe-guard the peae of nations." BIG BOOS iK LEAGUE The action of the two nations piaces in the hando of the league a dispute which at one time was thought might lead to war, and the members of the council do not disguise their satisfaction satis-faction over the decision, which is pointed to as one of the strongest expressions ex-pressions of support and conlidoncc the league has yet received. A commission of three has been selected se-lected to-furnish ' the league in ih shortest time a report which will cn-uhle cn-uhle it to frame either a final or a provisional settlement. Premier Braining and Foreign Minister Min-ister Bncknell both expressed th lr approval ap-proval of the course of the counsel and said they felt confident that a solution so-lution acceptable to both Finland and Sweden would soon be reached by that body. HISTORY OF CL M.Ms Sweden's claims to ownership of the Aland Inlands gate back more than :i century- They belonged to her up to 1809 when they were taken by Russia and attached to the province of Finland. Fin-land. Separated from Russia i consequence of the war and the Russian Rus-sian revolution, Finland now claims she is entitled to the continued ownership own-ership of the group Sweden la setting set-ting up her previous ownership together to-gether with the large preponderance of Swedish population of the Islands, as reasons why they should now revert re-vert to hor. In the Bering of ISIS when warfare between the While guards and Bolshevik Bolshe-vik forces hroke out In Finland and it was reported the Germans planned to make use of the Islands in connection connec-tion with their operations m Finland,! Sweden sent troops to occupy the la-1 lands |