NEW GUINEA MANDATE
Question of Return to
Germany
MINISTER’S COMMENT
(Received August 29,’10.55 p.m.)
Brisbane, August 29.
Sir George Pearce, Minister of External Affairs, who returned from an official visit to the mandated territories of New Guinea, expressed the hope that the British Government would hesitate about handing back to Germany her former territory. New Guinea, he claimed, was enjoy<n; greater progress and more rapid development under the present administration than when Germany was in control. It would become of tremendous importance to Australia from the viewpoint of its vast wealth of raw materials.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 7
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94NEW GUINEA MANDATE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 7
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