ALARM OF SETTLERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 22 February 1937, Page 7

ALARM OF SETTLERS.

BRITISH IN EAST AFRICA. GERMAN COLONIAL CAMPAIGN. British settlers in East Africa are alarmed at Germany’s new colonial campaign. They are preparing demands for the incorporation of Tanganyika, 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 coining to form a single economic unit. Machinery to set in action Herr Hitler’s new demands already lias been created. A comprehensive memorandum stating Germany’s case for the restoration ot her lost territories will be presented 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 wa.s formerly German. Between them they produce many things of which Germany is 6hort —gold, copper, tin, cotton, rubber, tobacco, grains, coffee, 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 Rhodesias 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.