Show WANT VANT UNITED STATES TO TAKE ON SOME OF GERMAN COLONIES feeling in lin england fingland gland that america should discard her fler traditional I 1 aloofness and assume administration of part of captured lands now new form of colonial control Is being advocated by LLOYD ALLEN 1 special staff correspondent copyright newspaper onion london will Ani erlen bo be willing to take on some boine of tile the ler lilan colonies or turkish posses in III tile benr bast Ii istl that hint Is n question that lint Is in tile the minds of a n inigo section of ill governing class of nf angland Ln Eai gland mn men who have led britini liall political tien thought for komrs belleve lint we c sli some of the responsibility of governing gneri illi tit I 1 lie lands cap captured lured front froin the germans lilt turks na its otio lending III publicist told pio ine recently thero Is it 11 double I ianson ell soil liick back of tills idea first of nil america Is till nn english lhing nation that can call be trusted to Nel din inister wisely mid well the ilia desti files of a less people secondly i it la Is only through actual lit in the responsibilities or of looking after faraway far away col colonies otiles hint america con can per over appreciate the truo true state of lalind of ilia british people of fill classes upper dipper mid middle itald towel on this flits delicate subject of empire it Is slated by several prominent profit propagandists ts division of colonies at this stage of the lio pence bogotin tha question of dividing the colonies la Is n mi mintter litter on oil which no public man ann Is to go RO on 1 I record nut but unofficially the ilia subject Is T too 0 0 ninny int a r ell t 8 tire to invite outspoken discussion cussi cus sion oll eliere tire larger problems lemi that must musi first be solved the limitation of freedom of the seas end neove nil other subjects fornin alou of A league of once these are disposed of ilia lie colonial knot will probably be quickly cut it li 14 with implicit falth in tile 1110 mate outcome of these basic that tho the intelligent briton outlines ills 1119 belief that america if she Is to remain ns as a lead lendins frig factor in world politics politick must go into the colony business should hould such a course be embarked ort oil by the united states should we tahe for instance the bolm administration I 1 n of palestine and armenia find possibly some borna of the former german lands hinds in south africa it would be put on tit the irnine plat platform forni that flint the best elements in accept t for namely 1 ns P into it dominion capable of self govern went ment like canada and australia and must then be given every freedom to determine hr her own destiny the same principles would apply t to 0 the african to choose whether or not the ties tes that bind to the ilia mother country must lie cut or fill allowed owed to remain answerable to league of nations through nil the days of american Americ tin anti it Is admitted tunny ninny of these flays dais would prove lik irk some anit expensive america would lit b to the longue league of nations for fir tier her actions in the tha territory held in trust just na as the other european powers england franco france and itilia will be answerable to the league of nations for any of subject peoples in ili brief intelligent Eti angland gland Is rec for world consideration 11 new form forin of colonial colonl nl control cont iol with avith the feeling that tile the world bild has fins outgrown it lie layh when it a spanish tyrant could terrorize cuba or it bru oer bor main government could commit noroel ties lit in south africa there Is in america a somewhat belief that tile average brit sli sit citizen allyen takes great pride pi ida in ili ilia intges colonial possessions of ills his country that lie gloats with hh enuch sails frails faction over the lie foca that great atilt controls something like ilke OHP quarter of the inhabitable portions poi alons of tile tho world 01 id our ideas on tills this subject are not exactly correct there Is 14 it large inice ole lenient lit in tho ilia of this country that lint Is lead dead fig against a dinst tit IK 0 pro 1 0 all jo to dequire tiny moro more territorial posses j mons in ili fact among the he labor party lilal lil cl Is lin usual strength these days there Is a farm conviction that inilla india must soon bo be allowed to say what tier lier government shall bo be problems to be solved hero idere wo we have another side of the lie problem that ninny predict will ile 10 solved by providing for enlightenment of tile uncle colonial peoples will by introducing into colonial government a number of reforms prohibition of tho ilia sale to natives first of if till nil and next the lie establishment of yel wel fare departments deport ments calculated to better tho the living conditions of the ilia natives aluch effort Is being expended here in fix england to start fundamental reforms in ili tho attitude toward the lie colonies booklets Hook lits tire being issued issue and tire just off on the press one entitled windows of Fre freedain edoin cari carries les tin an ln ili by viscount grey america place lit in world govern invent iii int Is riven given alki sarre ce it lt strongly ted out that nono none of alu terri territories outside J lurose tle de tallied el of by lily war var front from the german and turkish empires ca ca n in tilt lie near future provide peace oi oer tin and good government for ivak ilow how to provide government for these form tortes Is 14 the most difficult of ilia lio eions which the conference tins has to face ace front Ii oin a hundred lips tind pens tile the j answer will como come that tile the solution lies in intel blat 1 contra tile the lengu f eions wi 1 solve tile problem ta the booklet then emphasizes that lint the league of nations lit in itself cannot s provide actual government for ilia hie cot col onles alint government must ile bo fur v III abed by one of fill associated pow ers era ac a tny ns agent for tile the league of nations find of course cespon elble to tile lie league I 1 freedom la Is secured thoi the control of tile the four continents i tins lina fallen or Is now foiling falling to the ilia free peoples of tile lie enith earth tho booklet with the alic viscount grey introduction 0 states and ly by alint control tile the exist x 1 ench of freedom Is secured not only i lit in europe but tilso also in america find australia but what Is tile tho cn efrece ct of tills vie VIC s tory ory to be on oil asin africa lind tho the spattered scattered remnants a ants of so 1 doty clety w who ito anlin hit a hundred pacific i isles isle i in ili tile the end the effect mint be float they too will achieve the lie art of governing themselves nut but tho the j question how soon can tile end be V ren benched ched cd depends on a right tinder standing by the free nations who now control coi itro tile lie world of the hie del dellunto leate and V complex nature of the problem fill tire lire 0 to o grasp it will not only delay alm ilm lit on end but may inny yet yei set the civill civilized zed world by the cars lit in brief may ye yet t form forin ilia grounds for another yar there Is no sentiment expressed in y tile hio publications now being issued on tile colonial colonl nl tiny feature teai ture of the fourteen points laid down lit in president wilsons Wll Wil sona sons pence declara if tion instead In stend there li Is shown tin nn et ef fort to make these points harmonize with the nr argument 9 advanced for it american participation in colonial gov t crement what wilson sold president dont wilsons Wil sons fifth clause in the notable fourteen fourt efen for felt 1 tree free open minded mal absolutely impartial tint adjustment of nil all colon colonial loil claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining nil all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title Is to ile be determined the whole point at issue according to this hla recently published british view la Is that no government shall claim ex elusive title to the captured lands funds but that one government roust must take tile the responsibility ot of administration ji bcd ba b 7 responsible is in 16 turn to tin nn lnier nat 1 tribunal clause twelve of 0 the president pence peace terms provide for the lopping off of armenia and palestine from turkey find insist that these onetime one time timo s subject states shall ille ue assi assured tred nn an up doubted security of life and nn an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous tono development which opportunity tur olty it Is pointed out here would most assuredly bo be provided were Ari america erica acting na as a kind of big brother to the armenians Armen ians and people of palestine rates pales es t inc there Is hope here among ilia most farseeing far seeing thinkers flint america will discard tier her traditional tradition nt aloofness ness and beccone custodian of the ar men ians lans of ind take charge even of the Darda dardanelles nelles maintaining tin an open door policy n policy the british will tibt edly strongly urge on ill the a french iohd iani italian ian governments ns as nn nit expedient it in wise territorial govern ment it Is 19 even urged that we take c over the he tn of preserving tile tin au of persia and arabia that america amerl possesses knowledge for hand handling lill st sih I 1 n large laige assignment Is 19 undoubted 1 it t Is pointed out that Il It college nind the american missions in the near hast have given us it a preponderant share tf if not a monopoly of public spirited ruen men ninny many of them natives of tills this cecelon of the world who i lie consequently have firsthand first hand knowledge of those regions front from the near east america could promote railroad construction st without offense to tile british anal could assist in that most vexatious problem pro bleta of llie ilia day the restora tion lion of IlTis sla the blind giant among the grey booklet says BRITISH PRISONERS STARVED BY THE GERMANS ez A w W I 1 7 f ff V t 4 ap V Z tit Is photograph ot or it i group of evitish prisoners pil of 0 wa war r just released h b the clemaus klows tho the shameful trent or of the by bythol the buns lung such evidence does docs not help germany in getting tile tho food tor for which she Is |