' TIESDAY. i\IAl!('Il 11, ]!)!!). HERMAN KTLE OVMIt NATIVES.
IN advoealing al a iveeiil meeting in London llml the Berman eolonies should be retained by Britain, Mr Waitin’ Long, then Secretary tor the Colonies, (pioted from tlie record of tiie ifercros in South-West Africa. The estimate of the population in 100-1 was SO, (100. The official census in .Hi 1.1 was lb,Pill. Willi regard to the Hottentots the estimated population in JOO4 was 20,000: the official census in Ill'll, was 0,781. The estimated population of the Berg Damaras in 1904 was 30,000; the official census in 10.11 was 1.8,831. Thus 80 per cent, of the IlerVi'o people had disappeared, and more than half the Hottentot and (he Berg Damaras races had shared the same fate. One had hoped that these tilings had passed with the growth of Christianity and of civilisation. Air Long read the following statement by live chiefs of Kwancha, in Cameroon: —'‘During the last ten days we live chiefs have compared notes. We have contrasted what we have known and heard of Berman occupation with, what we have experienced for over (wo years now under British administration. We wish here and now to slate Hint we five chiefs, with our councils and our loading citizens and village heads, have discussed the mailer fully, and we wish to remain for ever under the British flag. We beg that the Bermans he inner allowed to return to our country agaiip and we re'quesl the Political Officer to so inform the great KingEmperor by letter. As to our question, Can we he assured, while we are all assembled together, that there is no cause for our present fears that possibly, after the great European war is finished, the Germans may return and carry into execution some of their horrible threats of vengeance —threats uttered as they tied south before the British forces ? We feel ill at case
on ihis point, ns we have consistently been fold that delimitations o|' boundaries nnil linn statement;- mto the European nationality o!' our ultimate protectors cannot In- made until after this great war. We aro most anxious to remain for ever under British administration, and we wish this known in England,’’
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1950, 11 March 1919, Page 2
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365' T1ESDAY. i\IAl!('Il 11, ]!)!!). HERMAN KTLE OVMIt NATIVES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1950, 11 March 1919, Page 2
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