Britain Insulted

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 9

Britain Insulted

INC ISC FEET GERMAN CONSUL

Incident At Tanganyika

ARMED MARINES GO ASHORE

United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, Tuesday. fl MARCH by German marines in the British mandated terri--14 tory of Tanganyika and a speech by the German Consul at the port of Tanga may lead to a request from Britain for the withdrawal of the Consul and an apology from the captain of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, says the ‘‘Daily Mail.

The newspaper gives prominence to a cablegram recording a remarkable series of incidents during the first visit of a German cruiser since the Great War to the territory which formerly was German East Africa. The Karlsruhe’s stay at Tanga was marked by a gala dinner given by the. German community in the principal hotel, at which flerr Speiser. the Ger man Consul, in the course of a speech dilated upon the historical glories of the German colony. He recalled the illfated landing at Tanga of 1914. when the British were repulsed with heavy losses. The Consul’s oration was followed hv a parade of the Karlsruhe’s marines, who, amid Teutonic spectators’ cries of “Hoch.” goose-stepped past Herr Speiser, who took the salute. Then the marines marched through the town. Next morning the British Provincial Commissioner remonstrated with the Consul, who is reported to have apologised, but to have stated that the din-

ner was only for Germans and he had thought none of the British bystanders understood German. Two days later an armed party was landed from the British cruiser Enterprise and paraded at Tanga, while a seaplane hovered overhead. The marines saluted the British flag, af'er which they marched through the town. It is unders ood that diplomatic representations are being made to Germany asking for the recall of the Consul and an apology from the captain of the cruiser. Tanga is a seaport of Tanganyika Territory, East Africa. At one time it was part of the sultanate of Zanzibar, but it passed into the possession of Germany in 1888. On November 4. 1914, a British force from India landed in the bay and attempted to capture the town. It suffered heavy losses, however, and was compelled to re-embark It was not until July 7, 1916, that the place was occupied by the British, the Germans meanwhile having been defeated by General Smuts. The fall of Tanga completed the British occupation of the Usambara railway.