AFRICAN MANDATES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19227, 6 February 1928, Page 9

AFRICAN MANDATES.

GERMAN CRITICISM OF. BRITAIN. (BI CABLE-PBBSB ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOHT.) (AUSTBALIAJT AND K.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, February 3. It is stated, that Dr. Heinrich Sehnee and Dr. Stresemann have taken too much for granted in their , allusions to the Tanganyika mandate. The official attitude is first that Britain has in no way suggested any East African scheme to involve violation of the rights under which the mandate is held. Second, that if Dr. Sehnee had read the Hilton Young Commission's terms of reference he would have found that they merely concern domestic supervision within mandated territories. There is no suggestion of the British introducing sovereignty into the mandates. The Mandates Commission has a full right to question whatever happens within its mandates, and likewise any action contemplated therein. The British attitude i 3 that Britain definitely does not propose any alteration of the mandate system, and therefore there is nothing for the German Government to take offence at. [Dr. Heinrich Sehnee, an ex-Governor of German East Africa, recently drew attention to the activities of Sir E. Hilton Young's Commission in East Africa, especially the scheme to unite Tanganyika with British territory. He added that 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. Germany should not agree to such changes without her consent. Dr. Stresemann, Minister for Foreign Affairs, replying, said that the German Government would certainly oppose any alteration of the mandate system in East Africa or elsewhere.]