j Tho planting, of Teuton" authority m German l£ast Africa was accomplished 1 maa somewhat dramatic- fashion. I^ate, m (1884 there arrived at: Zanzibar three yijung Germans travelling as, deck- passengers and \ostensibly mechanics.;. ,In point of fact, :however, th_eh"; luggage consisted principally of German flags and ; blank treaty forms; and thB 1 nien themBelves were representatives of the -then-recently-established 'Gei'inan- Colonisation Spoiety, bent on the secret reo A uisitipn. : fo;i 1 . their country of a great and potentially valuable territory ere any rival nation should be moved to appropriate it. They bore no mission from the 'German Government. "Bather," Frederic Austin Ogg tells iis, "their enterprise, was frowned iipan officially. But it was exclusively the treaties which they negotiated that gave GermanJ her subsequent claim to a large portion of tho East African coast."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 5
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