GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 94, 21 August 1915, Page 4

GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS.

Alter what on# knows to-day of (lermauy’s shameless piracy and murder of white women and children it is not diflicult to believe that Germans have hoftU. guilty of ruthless treatment of the native races in what were lately

German African Colonics. Mr John Hams, in the “Nineteenth Century,” says that in every German colony the Government fixed the wages and notified the amount of labor to he supplied. Upon a given day and hour the correct number of laborers had to present themselves at the Administrator’s •house, and every laborer must accept the scheduled wages, and submit to be allotted given work in a scheduled district. family responsibilities, motive industries, and native agriculture and road-making were* not considered at all. “The African.” writes Mr Harris, “to whose nature this cast-iron system is utterly alien, seeing thus imperilled the whole social fabric of hh tribe, revolted, and then, with heart less precision, the machine began ti move. With crashing effect its gigan tic mailed first struck these primitive tribes blow after blow, with such stag goring effect that some colonies lum lost half their population.” 'The an thor quotes from a report of the Gyr man Secretary for the Colonies, showing that between 1903 and 1913 in tin small colony of Togoland alone IOo.OOf natives had been killed in expeditions against them. It is argued that Rritain’s duty is to do away with forced labor in the territory that she takes over from Germany. A very, great number of Germans certainly ought t( he put on trial for murder, both in Africa and elsewhere.