London, Mar. 27.
R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary ate for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons today that the British Government had now been informed officially by the Lithuanian Government of the cession of Memel-land to Germany.
On receiving this communication, the British Government had expressed to the Lithuanian Government its sympathy over the situation in which the latter had been placed. Mr. Butler added that as, both last December and on March 16, the British Government had made it clear in a reply to enquiries addressed to it as a signatory of the Memel Convention by the Lithuanian Government, that it could only endeavour to secure respect for the Memel Statute in so far as this lay in its power, it was understandable in the circumstances of the case that the Lithuanian Government had acted in signing the treaty with Germany on the evening of March 22 without consulting the signatory powers,—Wireless through Reuter.
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