Give New Guinea Back to Germany

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 5

Give New Guinea Back to Germany

EXPLORES’S OPINION Halted Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph.—CopyrlgntBRISBANK, Feb. 10. Captain A. J. Kenrick, 8.N.R., who aas been an explorer and traveller in New Guinea for 15 years, favours the return to Germany of a portion of the mandated territory. He said that a union of China and Japan against the Western nations would come in the end, and it would be to .Britain’s advantage to have Germany on her side in the Pacific. The Morobe district and the islands should be retained through the League of Nations, but other parts of German New Guinea might well be handed Lack. Papua offered far greater prospects in minerals and other resources. BRITISH OFFICIAL REITERATION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 15. Asked in the House of Commons whether, to dispel ill-founded German expectancy, he would state in umuistakesble terms that the British Government could not contemplate the cession to Nazi Germany of any territory whatsoever under British political control, Lord Cranborne replied: “As has been previously staled, his Majesty ’e Government has not considered and i.« not considering such a transfer.” Another House of Commons question on Press reports of the German claim to colonies gave Lord Cranborne an opportunity to correct a misapprehension regarding a conversation last week between Lord Halifax and the German Ambassador. He pointed out that the Lord Privy feeal had received Herr von Ribbentrop in the absence of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, in the ordinary course of diplomatic routine, and the exchange of views, normal on such occasions, was in no sense a negotiation.