"CLUMSY CASE."

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18721, 18 June 1926, Page 7

"CLUMSY CASE."

RETURN OF GERMAN COLONIES. I MISCHIEVOUS DISTORTION. (bt cable—press association—coptbioht.) (Stdset "Sub" Service.) (Received June 17th, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. "A painstaking but essentially clumsy case for the return of the German Colonies is made," says a reviewer, "by Doctor Schnee, in his book 'German Colonisation Past and Future.' It is only worthy of notice because Dr, Schnee was successively Magistrate in New Guinea, Deputy Governor of Samoa, and Governor of East Africa. He might be forgiven for his bias, if it had not led to a mischievous distortion of evidence, when he seeks to prove incapacity, and even cruelty, of the present Mandatory Powers. "Amid astonishing indictments of British rule, he gravely asks whether the unhappy people of the ex-German protectorates shall continue to be exposed to decimation by plagues and diseases with which the British, French, and Belgians are unable to cope." The reviewer adds: "It is time that such gross Insinuations were refuted. Perhaps Dr. Schnee would be reluctant to admit that under the administration of Australian doctors, some of the tropica] ex-German colonies have been virtually cleared of malaria. "Dr. Schnee adopts the curious reasoning that the natives of ex-German colonies, including New Guinea, when they affirm loyalty to Germany, speak from the bottom of their heart, but when they declare preference for British rule, they have been bribed and bullied by cunning officials."