GERMAN OBJECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1928, Page 9

GERMAN OBJECTION.

Britain's Attitude On African Commission. TOO MUCH FOR GRANTED. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. Dr. Heinrich Schnee, who attacked the British South African Commission's activities in East Africa, in a speech in the Reichstag and Herr Stresemann, Foreign Minister, who also spoke cn the matter, have taken too much for granted in their allusions to Tanganyika. The official attitude is firstly, that Britain in nowise suggested any East African scheme which would involve the violation of the rights under which the mandate was held. Secondly, if Dr. Schnee had read Sir Hilton Young's commission terms of reference he woukl have found they merely concern a similar domestic supervision within tho mandated territories to the adjacent colonies where there was no suggestion of the British introducing soyereignty into the mandates.

The Mandates Commission has the full right to question whatever happens within the mandates, likewise any action contemplated therein. The British attitude is definite. It does not propose the alteration in the mandate system, therefore there is nothing for the German Government to suppose. — (Sydney "Sun.")

When speaking in the Reichstag Dr. Heinrich Schnee, a member of the People's party and the last Governor of German East Africa, drew attention to the activities of the South African Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Hilton Young, in East Africa, especially the scheme to unite Tanganyika with British territory. Dr. Schnee said there was much talk in Britain of a great East African Dominion, but that would be a violation of the mandates system and a violation of German rights amounting to dishonesty. He added that Germany should not agree to such changes without her consent. The Foreign Minister, Herr btresemann, in reply, said the German Government would certainly oppose any alteration of the mandate system in East Africa and e'.sewhere.