London, Feb. 8.
The new Colonial League was formally constituted today at a meeting of members of Parliament from all parties, interested in colonial questions.
The object of the League is to bring before the British public the importance of the British Colonial Empire, and particularly to stres the human, moral and political objec-lions to any concessions to the German demand for surrender of British colonial or mandated territories.
The Council of the newly-constituted League includes:—Lord Lugard, former member of the Permanent Mandates Commission; Lord Bailey, former Governor of the Punjab and the United Provinc Lord Stonehaven, former Governor-General of Australia; Lord Selborne. former High Commissioner for South Africa; Sir Cecil Rodwell, former Governor of Southern Rhodesia; Mr. W. B. Amery, Assistant Secretary to the Dominions office; Mr. James A de Rothschild, M-P.; and Sir Philip Noel-Baker, MP.
Sir Samuel Wilson, former Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica, has been elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Colonial League.—Reuter.
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