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Show FIND NO PUCE i ' ON LEAGUE , SPECIAL Delegates Traveling to Geneva for League of Nations Assembly Assem-bly Stir Up Much Discord B NEWTON PARKE International News Service Staff Correspondent. Cor-respondent. GENEVA. Dec. 11. You find anything any-thing but peat- when you travel on a league of nations special. oir train was due u, leave tho Gun; de Lyon. I'arls at exactly 3:05 p. m.. carrying a whole loAd of Britishers. Including Lord Robert Cecil; an assortment as-sortment of Japanese, Chinese, Dra-guayans. Dra-guayans. etc. But a whole ten mln-ui mln-ui s before that hour, war broke loose among the traveling haguers. I A tall Englishman discovered that I iho sleeping compartment he had re-served re-served hadn't been reserved at all. He found it occupied by a diminutive Jap who emphasized his possession by I locking the door from the inside, w hile the Englishman swore the Jai unfolded a copy of the Toklo Nlchl Nit hi and began reading the latest . sporting news from ihe IrienL VENTS 111-- VNGER i Swearing in the train corridor hav-' hav-' Ing failed, the Englishman took up a commanding position on the steps and i began addressing the whole world. "BlimUeiy-blank. it all," he began, and Lady Cecil put her hands to iter 'how in 'ell can ou organize a league of nations. If you cau't even .organize me a place to .sleep.' How in you, l ask '."' Nobody answered, but all tne travelers trav-elers cheered. Someone blew a whls-' whls-' tie, the tram began lo pull out and no one kn-iws Whatever happened to that particular Englishman, except thai he didn't arrive Tn Geneva next morning. 'ihe battle was renewed at s o'ciocV next morning, when the train reached Bellegarda, the Prehuh custom." star , lion on the Swiss frontier. Everyone was inited to descend for breakfast In the little railwa;. station. Then the strife began. "Waltar' shouted Lord Cecil, bang-Pig bang-Pig his fist down on an uncovered wooiien brealuasl table m emphasize Ins remarks. "I ordered two cups of coffee thirty minutes ago and thus fav 1 have onls one. spoon." "Oh, P'U be there now don't get exulted," replied u w hite-nproned individual in-dividual who was mopping omo splll-' splll-' rd chocolate off the next table, and Lord Cecil drew his head down into his i.g gray overcoat and sighed. "1 said ton not coffee." remah- Ited the Maharajah of Something, from India, speaking in both English and PrCnCh. "Difficult fellow," - mumbled the waiter. "Ought to be glad he gets I anything." JAPS K I EP SMILING 'n! the Japs were quiet In the general commotion. They appeared highly amused. The final stage was reached at (Jen-ex;; (Jen-ex;; two hourj, later when the I'ruguy-an I'ruguy-an minister to Madrid who headed hie country's delegation discovered that a Swiss baggageman had run off with his grip containing his credentials. 'YTt rrible terriPIe terrible." he ImoaiKil, a tier crashing with every uniformed uni-formed employe at the station. "This country lives on tourists and the league of nations. No one here to ; meet no- .-vnd they sieal my baggage, i Terrible terrible terrible." It was nearly dusk when they found I the Uruguayan delegate's all-import-j ant ban In the cellar of a hotej assigned as-signed to the British delegation |