Berlin, Oct. 28.
"The duty of making the first step to remove the mandatory system lies clearly with England," the "Berliner Tageblatt" declares commenting upon a discussion opened by "The Times" of London, on the German claim for the return of German colonies.
"It is an improvement that on this occasion the Versailles colonial guilt lie has been abandoned," the paper adds, "but in view of the Fuehrer's declarations on this question there can be no doubt that only a complete reparation of the injustice done can be considered as restoration of the equality demanded by us. It is completely impossible to get out of the case by pretending that the responsibility for the man-ates had never been a solely British interest. England was mainly responsible for it at Versailles and Gen. Jan C. Smuts, (S. Africa) still a leading British statesman, was the father of the mandatory system."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.