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Show I NORWAY GIVEN SUZERAINTY AT SPITZBERQEN PARISi Sept 25 - The supreme counril of the peace conference al '.Ids raorning'5 session approved the re tort of the commission on Spitzcr-"hergen Spitzcr-"hergen granting to Norway political suzerainty o er the Spitzonbcrg archi-pelago archi-pelago Norway is closer to Spitzen-herg Spitzen-herg than any other countrv and ir-II. ir-II. lually all of the several nations which had put in claims to the territory had v .nved them before the commission's report was piesented. The lerxltorj is chiefly valued for its coal mines owned by Norwegians-. The council also decided that the Kongu territory in northern Mozambique, Mozam-bique, separated from the German colonial co-lonial possessions, should be given to Portugal. Hi oo |