GERMANS' BREACH

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 August 1930, Page 5

GERMANS' BREACH

PARADE IN TANGANYIKA CONSUL OVERSTEPS MARK AN APOLOGY SOUGHT. Untied re-mi AeeuCUiUuL. — B> jLicewio leirK»M : uoyyriU ut. > LONDON, Aug. 5. A march by German marines in the British mandated territory of Tanganyika and a speech by the Gnnnpan consul at Tanga may lead the British to request the withdrawal of the consul and an apology from the captain of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, says the “Daily Mail” in giving prominence to a cable emphasising a remarkable series of incidents during the first visit of a German cruiser since the war

to the territory formerly German East Africa.

The stay of the Karlsruhe at Tanga was marked by a gala dinner the German community held in the principal hotel, where Herr Speiser, the.consul, in a speech dilating the historical glories of the German colony, recalled the ill-fated sea landing at Tanga in 1914 when the British were bloodily repulsed.- The oration was followed by a parade of the Karlsruhe’s marines, who, amid the Teutonic spectators’

cries of “Hoch,” goose-stepped past \ the consul, who took the salute. After L this they marched through the city. ' ■ Next morning the British Provincial Commissioner remonstrated with the consul, who is reported to have apologised but stated the dinner was only for Germans and he thought none of the British bystanders understood German. Two days later an armed party landed from the British cruiser Enterprise and paraded in 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 for tilie recall of the consul and for an apology from the captain of the Karlsruhe.