MANDATE ETHICS

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1928, Page 5

MANDATE ETHICS

GERMAN SUSPICIONS

CONCERNING EAST AFRICA.

UNVERSED AND UNFOUNDED.

(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 4.

Official circles state that General Sehnec, ex-Govcrnor of German East Africa, and Dr, Strcsomann, German Foreign Minister, have taken too much for granted in their assumption of a scheme to unite Tanganyika with British territory, aiming at the establishment by Britain of a great East African dominion.

Thle official attitude is, firstly, that Britain has in "iTo way suggested any East African scheme to involve violation of the rights under which the mandate is held.

Secondly, if General Sehnee had read the Hilton Young Commission’s terms of reference, he would have found that they merely concern similar domestic supervision within mandated territories to adjacent colonies. There is no suggestion of the British introducing sovereignity into mandates.

The Mandates Commission has the full right to question whatever happens within mandates, and likewise any action contemplated therein. The British attitude is that she definitely does not propose any alteration of the mandate system, and therefore there is nothing for the German Government to suppose.—A. and N.Z.