Geneva, July 5.
Speaking before the League Nations mandates commission on. conditions prevailing in the mandated territory of South-West Africa, Mr. Towater, the representative of. the South African Union, declared that the mandated territory was passing through a most difficult period on account of 'a drought such as never before had been experienced since the Union took over this mandate. Relief measures had caused a budget deficit which could not be balanced by' new taxes unless revenue showed a substantial improvement.
The chairman of the commission announced that the Government of the South African Union in a letter dated April 16, 1930, had accepted an interpretation of the mandatory status acknowledging that the mandatary state's power over mandated territory was not to be interpreted as "sovereign" in the accepted sense of the word.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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