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...Turkish Position. Foreign Minister Tewfic Bey sent an official protest to the Council, alleging that England had armed the Chaldeans against the Turks and that no Turkish atrocities had been committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
...Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland, for some years Dr. Henry Spahlinger, famed scientist, has worked to perfect a remedy for tuberculosis. In 1919 he discovered a serum which attracted much attention from the medical profession; since then he has made steady advances, so that now his serum, far stronger than the original discovery, is said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among...
...Geneva the 37th meeting of the Council of the League of Nations opened with Signor Vittorio Scialoja of Italy in the chair...
...decided to convoke a Special Disarmament Committee at Geneva on Feb. 15, 1926, which shall attempt to clear the way for an ultimate International Disarmament Conference or Conferences under the auspices of the League of Nations...
Many a great statesman prepared to speed toward Geneva last week, as preparations for the December session of the Council of the League of Nations reached their final stage. Early comers were greeted by the following development...