The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1915. THE BRITISH WAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1915. THE BRITISH WAY.

One of the many blunders the Prussian war-makers made when they plunged the world into needless strife was the failure- to 'understand -the strength of the-British system in dealing j with) i conquered ■> peoples, : and among the surprised sprung aipon the Huns dialing the war,,; nonet have been greater ctbani the discovery;toft how the! f (Native races in every part of the Brij tish" Empire have joyfullyi iraliied to the Hag, ,-One only has to remember \ how the Germans have treated aboriginal races in the colonies they once possessed, to understand why the Germans took it for granted that Natives _ of all kinds must be regarded not as loyal subjects but as potential foes, The . almost invariable policy of the Germans towards the aboriginals under their control has been one of crueld tv and massacre. In South-West Afl" rica from 1904 to 1907 Gfermany spent £20,000,000 in a ruthless .attempt to exterminate the Hereros. Before this campaign South-West Africa, which is more than 50 per cent.' larger than the whole German Empire, was, according to official statistics, inhabited by 200,000! Natives. According to the latest official figures there were left in the country only 82,000 Natives. Men of all ages, women, and children were slaughtered or driven into the waterless desert, where they died of thirst. Such treatment of native races ought to have warned the world that German

"kultur" was Imt a thin veneer for the bestial brutality and cowardly treachery which now stand so nakedlyrevealed' as the German nation's chief attributes. A few weeks ago the London News wrote: "Whether we look to the splendid response of Canada. Australia, and New Zealand and the bravery of their men in the field, or to the devotion which India has ( shown to our cause, or to the euthu-, ' siasm of the African native who has f come under'our control or, finally, i<\ the brilliant achievement of General' Botha in South-West Africa we are | equallv entitled - to feel pride and, thankfulness for what has happened, j And tint, not merely because of the material value all these things have) implied, hut still more because they, are the best witness to the essential justice of British rule. We are reap- ( ing to-day in every region of the | globe the" harvest of that Liberal idea of government which lias been the > greatest contribution we have made to the political history of mankind." And it is for such reasons that Britain and her Allies must go on to victory. H there are any wise men left in the councils of the wavering Balkan States they will hesitate a long while before trusting to the tender mercies of ( the Turco-German combination, while they have at least some evidence »f ( British help and sympathy in times of trouble. The Balkan problem is not easy of solution, but the clouds 1 which now obscure the future are fast ' disappearing, and the way will soon be plain.