Wut I hope you 'ome In with us. If not.
TJerlin and Munich and the other large
'Sermon cities must be occupied."
Othar speakers were Major Ernest;
< Teg*, formerly of the Seventh Bedford- j
hire Regiment of the British Army.:
and a participant in tha battle of Jut- !
'and! Capt. Gloster Armstrong, British
?Vmirol-General, and Lieut. Arthur Mc
Xeogh. adjutant of CoL Whittlesey's
? T.oat Battalion."
COUNCIL IS ONLY
JUDGE OF MANDATES
House of Commons Agrees
With Government.
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f lfyrlffht, rHi, by Thi Nbw Yo*k Han*
Sf* York HrrtM Ritresa, 1
f/ondon, M?irh t4. J
The House of Commons to-day again
?onsiderad the principle of mandates
rid d'-fpitc the objection of the minor
Sty agreed to the Government's con
struction that once having accepted
the<e principles by ratify'!"1.* tne league
rif Nations covenant the House of Com
mons had no further say in framing
(he details, no matter what burdens,
! f .nan ial or otherwise, they imposed
Major Ormsby-Gore brought up the
sf riuestion by n.sklng what was to t>a dona
with the Mesopotamia n mandate in
xriew of the protests from the United
States and el:"1 where. The Government
replied that the mandates were before
the Leaguo of Nation* ' ouncti and the
J-iouse of Coraraoni had no further
Jurisdiction.
Even so great ? friend of the 1/eague
?f Nations as Lord Robert Cecil ob
jected '<> this, asking thnt s!l the man
dritrs be submitted to ? selected com
mittee of tiie House of Commons s? the
l^eagU' of Nations Council could not
act urn the next annua) meeting.
