GERMAN DEMANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1937, Page 10

GERMAN DEMANDS

ALARM IN EAST AFRICA

LONDON, February 4.

British settlers in East" Africa are alarmed at Germany's, new colonial campaign. They are preparing demands for the incorporation of Tan-g.-pyika, Kenya, Uganda, Nyasaland, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia into a new Dominion.- : ' ;

The settlers' alarm .has been increased by an announcement that Krupps and six other leading German firms have been granted constructional and exploitation contracts ;,in Angola. Portuguese East Africa.

Angola abuts on Southern: Rhodesia and Kenya touches Italian Somaliland.

By a process of growth the six British territories mentioned are already coming to form a single economic unit.

Machinery to set in action Herr Hitler's new demands already has , been created. A comprehensive memorandum stating Germany's.case for the restoration of her lost territories will be presented this month .to the. "interested Powers."

Herr Hitler has ordered the Reichsbank, the Labour Front, and the Ministries of Labour and Economics to co-operate in drawing up; this document. .. . ' '■

Of the territories mentioned only Tanganyika was formerly German. Between' them they produce many things of which Germany is short— gold, copper, tin, cotton, rubber, tobacco, grains, qoffee, tea, cattle, sheep, and timber. The total area covered by the territories is about 1,000,000 square miles, and they carry a total population of 17,000,000 natives and 100,000 whites. Kenya and the Rhddesias~are Crown colonies, Uganda and Nyasaland are protectorates, and Tanganyika is a mandate. One argument used to justify Britain's seizure of Tanganyika was that the Germans had permitted slavery in the territory. The taking and selling of slaves was abolished by law' in 1922. ..