SULTAN OKWAWA'S SKULL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5516, 24 October 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

SULTAN OKWAWA'S SKULL.

THE GERMANS STOLE IT, AND NOW MUST GIVE IT BACK. One of the most extraordinaryclauses in the Peace Treaty is the onewhich states that the German. Go .vnment must restore the skull of the Sultan Okwawa to certain, tribes in German East Africa.

Our experts were wise enough to insist on the return of this skull, for it will do more than an army would to pacify the natives of East Africa. Sultan Okwawa is as important to the natives of East Africa as Mohammed is to the Arabs. He was one of the great leaders whose memory- and remains are worshipped by thoustands of the natives of our new colony.

The skull of the Sultan was stolen by the Duke of Mecklenburg in 1908, when he went on what was ostensibly a scientific expedition for the German Government. But the latter knew the value of the skull, and hoped by taking it to subdue the natives whom they had failed to conquer by the most cruel and drastic measures.

Over a thousand skulls valued by the natives jvere taken away by the German Government, who paid no attention whatever to the religion or customs of the native over 'whom they were ruling. They are now paying the penalty of their cruel rule.