SECRET TREATIES
SEVERAL BEING "SCRAPPED."
LONDON, 28th January. ■ Mr. Keith Murdoch states that Signor Orlando (Premier of Italy) is claiming parts of Somaliland and Djibouti. The territorial question is resolving itself into a definition of the mandatory system and the icrapping of secret treaties. These include the Anglo-Japanese agreement concerning the Marshalls and the Carolines, the general treaty covering Italy's claims in the Adriatic, and the BritishHedjaz treaty giving Damascus to the Hedjaz. The idea is that Palestine shall be a British., protectorate for the Jews, and that the Arabs shall get the independence of Syria. Damascus ia on the line of the French and Arabian spheres.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 7
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107SECRET TREATIES Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 7
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