Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-19
Complain to League AS.
sembly Regarding
Mandates.
LEAGUE ASKED TO
ASSIST ARMENIA
British Delegate Demands That
League of Nations Go to Aid Of
People Hemmed In by Brutal Boil
sheviki and Inhuman Turks-Plea
Also Entered for Admission Of
Germany.
BY Associated Press.

HouSSd, NV, To- nc 1cTI
government has officially protested
to the league OF nations against the
system Of distributing mandates un-
der the treaty of Versailles, 1t was
learned today. The Berlin govern
ment asserts IL is illegal for the en-
tente powers to distribute these man
dates among themselves.
The mandates referred to in the
German protest were provided for in
article NXlI OF the covenant OF the
league of nations in the treaty OF
VersaS les. 1t was stipulated there
that colonies and territories separ-
ated from their former sovereignty
by the war and inhabited by peoples
of backward development should be
placed under the tutilage Of advanced
nations acting as mandatories on be-
half OF the league. All Of Germany q
former colonial possessions come un-
der this category the list including
the African colonies, such AZ German
East Africa and the kamerun and
the several groups Of islands in the
Pacific.
Plea For Aid For Armenia.
AT the opening OF today's session
Of the assembly Of the league OF ma
tions Paul Hymans. the president
read reply from President Wilson
to the message sent to Washingtoa
by the assembly on Monday.
George Nicoll Barnes, q British
delegate, then took the floor to begin
discussion of the report OF the coun-
ell OF the league. He dwelt especially
upon the necessity Of lending assis-
tance to the, Armenians.
They are" he declared, "hemmed
In by the brutal bolsheviki on the
one side and by inhuman beings on
the other
The labor chapter would become
the most important part of the treaty
Of Versailles, Mr.. Barnes predicted.
There can be no permanent
peace" he sail, until there is in
dustrial peace; and there can be no
industrial peace until labor gets a
better share of the product Of its ef-
forts
He asked why the league council
had not taken action as provided 70,
in article NJ Of the covenant to pre-
vent the war between Poland and
soviet Russia, and said q fresh out
break was Enthusiastically threatening
in spite Of the ''patched-up peace,
and should be prevented by league
intervention.
Pleads For Germany.
Mr.. Barnes said the vast majority
Of the laboring people demanded that
all Of the enemy states be admitted
into the league without delay.
The British delegate recalled the
fact that Germany already had taken
part in the deliberations Of the inter-
national labor bureau established BY
the league.
THE people of Great Britain. whom
represent here, do not forget tha,
the central empires plunged the worlc
into war. They do not forget the
misery and devastation caused. But
the question now is to rescue the
world from ruin and the co-operatior
Of the former enemy states is needed
In reinforcing his argument Mr.
Barnes referred to the instability Of
present economic conditions and the
anomolies in exchange.
What is needed above ALL" he said
"is greater production and the utmost
freedom in business transactions be.
tween the different countries, and this
is unobtainable as long as the world
is divided into two camps"
The assembly broke in general ap-
plause.
Countries kept out from associa-
tion with us will form an association
Of their own,' the British delegate
added, "arsl we shall return to the
dangerous pre-war system Of alli-
ance."
Mr.. Barnes pointed out that the
world was dealing now, In contra,
Europe not with European kings, but
with free people taking charge Of
their own destinies.