GERMAN INSULT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 7

GERMAN INSULT.

INCIDENT AT TANGA.

Parade of Marines in British Territory.

DIPLOMATIC ACTION LIKELY.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, August 6. A march by German marines in the British mandated territory of Tanganyika and a speech by the German Consul at the port of Tanga may lead to a request from Britain for the withdrawal of the Consul and an apology from the captain of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, says the "Daily Mail." The newspaper gives prominence to a cablegram recording a remarkable series of incidents during the first visit of a German cruiser since the Great War to the territory, which formerly -was German East Africa. The Karlsruhe's stay at Tanga was marked by a gala dinner given by the German community in the principal hotel, at which Herr Speiser, the German Consul, in the course of a speech dilated upon the historical glories of the German colony. He recalled the ill-fated landing at Tanga of 1914, when the British were repulsed with heavy losses. The Consul's oration was followed by a parade of the Karlsruhe's marines, who, amid Teutonic spectators' cries of "Hooch," goose-stepped past Herr Speiser, who took the salute. Then the marines marched through, the town. Next morning the British Provincial Commissioner remonstrated with the Consul, who is reported to have apologised but to have stated that the dinner was only for Germans and he had thought none of the British bystanders understood German. Two days later an armed party was landed from the British cruiser Enterprise and paraded at Tanga, while a seaplane hovered overhead. The marines saluted the British flag, after which they marched through the town. It is understood that diplomatic representations are being made to Germany asking for the recall of the Consul and an apology from the captain of the cruiser.