How the Huns Colonise.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 12 September 1918, Page 3

How the Huns Colonise.

SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS. FROM SOUTH WEST africa. jßeceived this day, 11.25 a.m. London, September 11. Mr Gorges, Administrator of South West Africa, has presented one of the most sensational reports issued in connection with Gorman colonial meithodis-. It constitutes a damaging indictment of Gorman fitness to rule black races and is brimful of well-authenticated instances of rapine, murder, lust, chicanery and knavery, and of the dfepoliation of simple and termless natives. The evidence is dtrawn from official German documents at . Windhoek (German South Weist Africa), the sworn statements of native chiefs, from Europeans familiar with the country, from the writings of Leutwein who was governor from 1894 to 1905, and other German sourcep. Altogether the report a telling reply to Dr coif's recent claim that Germany's pre-war humane treatment of the native races had! won for her a moral right to b© a great colonial Power. lni view of this _ claim the statement by Mr Gorges is interesting. He says: Native opinion here is unanimously against any idea of tiheir ever being handed back to the tender mercies of Germany in order to exploit the natives al<= labourers. When the Germans first arrived they made agreements with , the native chiefs but these became scraps of pajier. TOiio natives were deprivedl of their best land and traders and' settlers robbed them of their cattle. The natives were thin- driven, to work for ridiculously inadequate wages and often were never paid. They were treated like slaves and the women folk were habitually maltreated) by the Germans wto took them into forced concubinage. These and similar things goaded the natives to rebellion which was suppressed by ruthless cruelty, resulting in the practical extermination of the tlhiree tribes involved.

ALIENS IN ENGLAND

Received this day, 10.30 a.m. London', September 11. A new regulation under the Defence of the Realm Act enables the Government to restrict the movements or aliens in Britain not only for the safety of he Realm but in cases where they are calculated to secure the safety ox British subjects abroad.

SELLING LOOTED ART TREASURES Received this dtay, 10,30 a.m. Berne, September 11. Art treasures looted from Belgium and France are offered! for sale in Switzerland reputedly on behalf of the German Government.