EYES ON COLONIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 7

EYES ON COLONIES.

GERMANY AND TANGANYIKA.

LONDON, August 14.

A significant sequel to the goosestepping parade of German marines from the cruiser Karlsruhe in the Mandated Territory of Tanganyika (East Central Africa), which brought a strong British protest, is the satisfaction expressed by the German newspapers at the incident.

Their attitude is that the mandate is a temporary affair, and that Germany is aiming at the ultimate recovery of her colonies. They express pleasure that the incident has served to demonstrate this fact to Britain.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Times," commenting on ,the affair, points out that Germany is keeping the colonial idea alive by means of societies which maintain touch with German settlers in the mandated territories. He adds that German publications usually contrive to suggest that the British administration of these colonies is inferior to the German.

Herr Speiser, the German Consul at Tanga, where the march took place, has made an official statement that 30 sailors from the Karlsruhe, were ordered to march past the hotel, because the ship's officers thought the ceremonial would please their German hosts. He was surprised when the Provincial Commissioner ordered the closing of the hotel bar, on the ground that the march past was a military display, which could be regarded as a form of propaganda among the natives.

■Herr Speiser called on the Commissioner next morning, and explained that r.o military display in any way was intended. His explanation was accepted.