GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 6

GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

BRITAIN ,TO. RETAIN. THEM,

The question of -retention of ths occupied German islands in the Southern Pacific was touched upon yesterday during the, course of the Prohibition deputetioii lo the Prime'.Minister . and Sill J.oseph. Ward., ,•:'..■ >• ' , • The subject was introduced by the! Rev. R. S/'Graj', - ; president of the New, Zealand Alliance, who said that th« people, whom he represented agreed that it was not safe to return the islands to Germany, whatever happened to Ger* many. ' . ~ ,' Tho Prime Minister, in the course e* his reply,'■ said • that he and Sir Jqseplj "Ward hud represe'n'led'the'New Zealamlf point of view to the Imperial ties, and he thought with some success, He wished to make it perfectly clearthab while he was utterly opposed to giving the islands back to Germany he was also utterly opposed to anything m the natura of dual control. No control would ba satisfactory unless it was. control by tli9 British. Empire..".: .... .. , -Sir Joseph Ward remarked that he was very glad indeed to hear what Mr. Gratf had stated regarding the occupied derman Pacific possessions. When in tho ' Old Couutrv Mr. Masscy and he had succeeded in moulding public'opinion to. some extent regarding tlie possession of tho islands Some of the people in the Old Land knew very little about the islands 'in the South Pacific, or their great relationship to the.young nations growing up in these-parts, . Ihey hatb the great satisfaction of knowing that Mi- -Walter: \Long„Secretary- of State fofl the' 'Colonies; and '. Mr. -Balfour+two responsible Ministers of the British Gor-ornment-had made it quite clear, nar both Mr. Massev and he had' mado i« from the very start, that the people in tho Southern Seas would never tolerata the return of those territories to a foreign. Power. ,