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Show IR ON TYPHUS IN POLAND IS ! TOPIOOPSOE Nansen Says Ills Could Be Checked tor Price of Two Torpedo Boat Destroyers GENEVA, Dee. 7. (By the Associated Associ-ated Pressi Plana for co-operation on technical organizations of th" league of nations by representatives 01 Armenia and former Russian stales, though these states are not admitted to full membership in the leagut were discussed by the assembly of the league here today. This was the prin- ipal Item on the agenda, having been 1 brought into prominence by the dc-I dc-I clslon yesterday of the committee on I the admission of new states. WORKING B ISIS YA 1 N l l D. The assembly also continued the work of laying a working basis for the league which would enable. It to riinciir.n ,,c . in, , nil; as possible I pending tho time necessary to get a clear Interpretation of various mat-terfl mat-terfl and note tho practical effects of 1 the Intricate system by which the assembly as-sembly and counsll dovestatl into each , other. i The most enthusiastic supporters of the league now ad it there are problem! In the covenant which scorn, for the moment ..t least, beyond solution solu-tion since it la impossible to tell how work out The general polio adopted adopt-ed seems to be h let time work out a solution of some problems. c ( WTESTED Points f .erisloh was reachi .1 by the committee on relations between tho assembly and council last night to apply this policy to the contested point as to whether the .word "exclusive" should be eliminated elim-inated from the second of the four general principles enunciated by the committee a a working basis for the leagutf Tine sentence reads at present: pres-ent: ' The assembly has no power to modify mod-ify decisions coming within lh exclusive ex-clusive competence of the council " The committee decided to recommend recom-mend that tho whole paragraph be dropped from, the report raiher than orolong 0 discussion which might be fruitless. rYFHUS AM HILDIU n Work in thi typhus campaign now Olng on In Poland and plans looking to th' welfare oj chtldren in Europe were also discussed todaj . mie of the early acts of the assembly assemb-ly m.s morning was to approve the decision of the committee on relations between the assembly and the council for the elimination of tho entire paragraph par-agraph of Its report which provided that the assembly had no power to talte up questions wllhln the exclusive jurisdiction of the council Delegate Rowell of Canada, who made Ine report, pointed out ihul the elimination did not change the present pres-ent situation The report, being merely mere-ly interpretative, could not change the relations between the council and Disassembly, Dis-assembly, he remarked, but was merely mere-ly explanatory of the provisions of the covenant. MTI Al, 1 nil ( WON. Sir Geerge i" Poster, of the Canadian Cana-dian delegation, stirred the assemblj by an eloquent appeal, for action against the typhus In Poland and tho Near liast In general Canada and Slam, he remarked. were the only countries that had responded with cash contributions to the call of tho council for aid. "Let it not be eald that the flood gates of sympathy are closed." he cried. "Let it nol be sml M.nt the sensibilities sen-sibilities of the world have been dulled to such Imperative calls " A member of ih- Indian del. gallon. tho Prince of Navahagar, added to Sir George's appeal by giving B vivid description of the ravages of typhus In tho east. He declared the world was facing in this a graver emergency than the situation In Armenia. SHOULD M. il l TYPHI s. Dr I'ridtjof Nansen, tho Norwegian delegate, said that typhus could be effectively ef-fectively fought with the price of two torpedo boat destroyers. They proposed pro-posed the naming of a committee to get the money Sir George Foster's reminder to tho assembly that much had been promised prom-ised in aid of the anti-t vphus campaign cam-paign but that little had been paid except ex-cept by Slam and Canada, produced a decided reaction among the delegates. dele-gates. Representatives of nations in all corners of the world succeeded one another ai the speaker's stand gh.- assurance of the co-operations of their governments in the work. 00 |