THE GERMAN COLONIES.
TRADE INCREASING RAPIDLY
LABOR IN EAST AFRICA
United Press Association— Copyright (Received Feb: 19, 10 p.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 19. Herr Dernberg, in the Reichstag, ■fated that soon only a few colonies would require Imperial assistance. Trade in the Cameroons had ;increased i 0 per cent in the last year, and '’ons icier able mineral wealth had been discovered on the Caroline and Ladrone Islands, forty million tops of phosphates being found on the island of Nauru alone. Herr Dernberg promised to try to safeguard the ten millions of natives in East Africa igainst any brutal display of power, and added if the Government acceded to the wishes of the white farmers, l he entire labor force of the colony would emigrate to British territory, where the labor conditions are lighter and more humane.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 3
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