GERMAN COLONIZATION IN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 85 
datories must report to the Council all details of their ad- 
ministration with particular reference to the provisions of 
Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations which 
provides that “the mandatory must be responsible for the 
administration of the territory under conditions which will 
guarantee freedom of conscience and religion, subject only 
to the maintenance of public order and morals, the prohibi- 
tion of abuses such as the slave trade, the arms traffic and 
the liquor traffic, and the prevention of the establishment of 
fortifications or military and naval bases and of military 
training of the natives for other than police purposes and 
the defense of territory [and in respect to mandates of Class 
B,] and will also secure equal opportunities for the trade and 
commerce of other members of the league.”’! 
! Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Ger- 
many, signed at Versailles June 28, 1919. London: Printed and Published 
by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1919, p. 16. Also in the World Peace 
Foundation Pamphlets: Handbook on the League of Nations, 1925, p. 605. 
There are no mandates of Class A in Africa. The communities included in 
this group embrace only those belonging formerly to the Turkish Empire — 
such as Syria, Palestine, and Iraq — whose existence as independent na- 
tions is recognized subject to “the rendering of administrative advice and 
assistance by a Mandatory” until they are able to stand alone.