Alarm of British Settlers in East Africa

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 7

Alarm of British Settlers in East Africa

GERMAN COLONIAL CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Deb. 2. British settlers in East Africa are alarmed at Germany ’s new colonial campaign. They are preparing demands for the incorporation of Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Nyasaland and Northern and Southern Rhodesia into a new Dominion. The settlers 7 alarm has been increased by an announcement that Krupps and six other leading German firms have been granted constructional and exploitation contracts in Angola, Portuguese East Africa. Anglo abuts on Southern Rhodesia and Kenya touches Italian Somaliland. By a process of growth the six British territories mentioned are already coming to form a single economic unit. Machinery is set in action Herr Hitler's new demands already has been created. A comprehensive memorandum stating Germany's case for the restoration of her lost territories will be presented this month to the “interested Powers. 7 7 Herr Hitler has ordered tho Keichsbank, the Labour Front and the Ministries of Labour tdd Economics to cooperate in drawing up this document.

Of the territories mentioned only Tanganyika was formerly German. Between them they produce many things of which Germany is short—gold, copper, tin, cotton, rubber, tobacco, grains, coffffse, tea, cattle, sheep, and timber. The total area covered by the territories is about 2,000,000 square miles, and they carry a total population of 17,000,000 natives and 100,000 whites. Kenya and the Rhodesias are Crown colonies, Uganda and Nyasaland are protectorates and Tanganyika is a mandate. One argument used to justify Britain’s seizure of Tanganyika was that the Germans had permitted slavery in the territory. The taking and selling of slaves was abolished by law in 1922. REPLY TO HITLER’S DEMAND. BRITISH PRESS ARTICLE. LONDON, Feb. 2. Only the League of Nations can transfer a mandate, subject to the consent of the mandatory Power, and of the inhabitants of the territory concerned. This is Whitehall’s view of the German claim for the restoration of colonies. “Think you for nothing, Mr Hitler! 7 7 is the heading on an article in the Daily Express, which says: “The German dictator has demanded his lost colonies back. Now he will get the answer of tho democracies holding j them. The answer is ’No. 7 “The plain fact is that, even if we wanted to hand back the German col- j onies, we could only make a partial surrender. It is not Britain who governs South-west Africa. It is the Union of South Africa. Britain, Australia and New eZaland administer Nauru and New Guinea. New Zealand manages Samoa. All have made it abundantly clear that they are not letting go their mandates . “Japan, Herr Hitler’s new-found friend in the Far East, is also sitting tight. So if Herr Hitler is to be given another bun to make him a good boy it is Britain who will have to provide it. Shall we give him Tanganyika, breaking the all-red line from Cairo to tho Cape! We have seen Italy in Abyssinia. We see open intervention by both in Spain. Are we going to assist in throwing these great hungry Powers athwart our communications with our own Empire?' 7