MANDATES COMMISSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19617, 22 October 1925, Page 9

MANDATES COMMISSION

SIR JAMES ALLEN GOES TO GENEVA. Pros# Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 20. Sir James Allen (High Commissioner) and Mr J. D. Gray (Secretary to the Department of External Affairs in New Zealand) have gone to Geneva to attend the sitting of the Permanent Mandates Commission. —Sydney Sun Cable. RETURN OF GERMAN COLONIES. AMENDMENT OF VERSAILLES TREATY NECESSARY. LONDON, October 20, (Received Oct 21, at 8 p m.) Concerning Germany and tho mandated areas the Colonial Office states that changes are impossible without the unanimous concurrence of the signatories to the Versailles Treaty. The League of Nations is charged only with tho appointment of mandatories under that treaty. _ Sir Joseph Cook remarked that if Germany desired for instance to recover New Guinea and Nauru it would be necessary to obtain an amendment of the treaty.— A.and N.Z. Cable. THE SAMOAN MANDATE. NEW ZEALAND’S MODEL REPORT. GENEVA, October 20. (Received Oct. 21, at 11.15 p.m.) The Mandates Commission, in the presence of Sir James Allen and Mr Gray, dealt with the report of the Now Zealand Government on the administration of Western Samoa from April 1, 1924, to March 31, 1925. Mr Gray replied fully to the questions of the Commission, which paid a tribute to New Zealand’s successful acfministration of Samoa. It regarded the report as a model report on a mandated territory.—Reuter.