CONSUL EXPLAINS
DISPLAY WAS INNOCENT HE SAYS INCIDENT AT TANGA LONDON, Saturday. The Nairobi correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says Herr Speiser, German Consul at Tanga, Tanganyika, has issued an official statement about tho recent incident when 30 sailors from the cruiser Karlsruhe were ordered to march past a hotel because the ships’ officers thought the ceremonial would please their German hosts. Herr Speiser said he was surprised when the Provincial Commissioner ordered the closing of the hotel bar on the ground that the march past was a military display which could be regarded as a form of propaganda among the natives. The consul called on the commission next morning, and explained that no military display was in any way intended, and the explanation was accepted. Next day, Herr Speiser said, he heard rumours about his speech at the dinner to the Karlsruhe's officers, and again he visited the commissioner and protested against the “childish” misrepresentation and mischievous distortion” of his remarks.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 9
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162CONSUL EXPLAINS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 9
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