From The Hindu, June 9, 1925: Theft of German colonies
Munich, June 8: The annual meeting of the German Colonial Society has passed a resolution strongly protesting against the theft of Germany's colonies and demanding the Government to ask for their return and requesting the Reich-Commercial Treaty unless the anti-German regulations still enforced in British colonies are cancelled.
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