EX-GERMAN GOLONIES
■GERMANS WANT THEM > BACK , EVENTUALLY, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Rec. Jan. - 34, 9.16 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 21. The’Chicago Nows states that an official statement in the Berlin Gazette, attributes to the German Colonial; Office/ sayA; “President Wilson made it clear tha* the Peace Conference would equitably' and justly solve the colonial question. The German Government feels ihat the Entente’s intention of disposal of the colonies would be neither' fair nor just, arid would beevidence of the intention to suppress the German' nation.” The correspondent interviewed Mayor Gerhard, formerly member of the German Colonial Office, He said that it was impossible that _ Germany would agree, to an international commission io govern- the colonies for' a period of ten or twenty years, with the understanding that when a strong (Riepublican Government was built up, Germany would again assume control of her colonies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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