SETTLEMENT IN EQUATORIAL REGIONS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12611, 7 August 1909, Page 2

SETTLEMENT IN EQUATORIAL REGIONS.

VIEWS OF MR ROOSEVELT. [Press Association — Copyright.] London, August o. Mr Roosevelt has been banquetted at Nairobi in Africa. He said that few people realist..! that under the equator was the real white man's land. During his journey he had seen large tracts of country suitable for settlers, though the coast regions and the far interior were suitable only for blacks under wihite supervision. He added ' that the blacks must be treated without brutality and without sentiment. The latter probably was the more harmful.