Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-03-24
ALLIES AFRICAN WAR A BLOT
ON HISTORY.

Inc German Colonial society pub
fishes the following protest against
French and English warfare in the
colonies, in the columns Of the Kreuz
Xeitung
"The German Colonial society
protests before the civilized world
against the inhuman procedure of
the English and French in the Ger
man colonies. That procedure de-
stroys European civilizing work in
Afrika and is a mockery of the law
Of nations and definite international
agreements No military interests
necessitated the extension Of the
war to the German colonies Of Al
rica, which were not protected
against European attack Such
warfare is neither legally nor NOR
ally justified, The wanton destruc-
tion OF Germany's colonizing work in
Africa can have no bearing what
ever on the final issue of the world
war.
Racial Effects Fatal.
Before the eyes Of natives white
men, with the aid OF blacks, now
engage in the slaughter of white
men, The effect or that unhappy ra-
cial encounter can be only fatal to
the future colonizing work of every
European nation in Africa
Fully appreciating such danger,
article II of the Kongo statue has
imposed on the guarantors, among
whom are England and France, the
obligation TO refrain from extending
any OF their hostilities to territory
which the statue neutralizes or from
using such territory as q base for
military operations. AS late as 1903
the British government protested
against the violation OF the Kongo
statue by the Kongo states The
house Of commons passed the resolu-
tion almost unanimously. The Brit
ism government appealed to all sig
natories of the statue to take meas
ures for remedying the abuses. But
today the same England and her
French ally are not ashamed to Of
fend against fundamental stipula-
tions of that statue.
British Warned OF Evil.
I'm the beginning of the war f.
d. Morel, the well known British
colonial politician, in the African
Mail warned his countrymen that the
war in Africa might change the
civilization work to vast chaos oil
iniquity. He wrote
We carry our so called Chris
tianity to the African heathens and
show ourselves more savage, blind
and hard Of heart than the least adj
vanced races of Africa, which we
have gone forth to rule
Our opponents proceed with
measures that are senseless and bru-
tai in their severity. The French
transported Germans from Togo and
the Cameroons to French Dahomey
and thence on foot 300 miles farther
inland, where the captives, under
the supervision of blacks, are com
PEELED to do manual labor in the
tropical sun for seven hours every
day
In the Cameroons the English
black soldiers arrested unarmed
German men, women and children
and conveyed them to freight steam
ers, not even allowing them to take
the most necessary articles with
them
In southwestern Africa Luederitz
Bright peacefully surrendered, yet
the English abandoned that unde-
Tended place to looting and robbed
private owners OF their diamond
fields. The civil population We're
dragged away from their homes and
conveyed to South African concen-
tration camps
British Bombard Towns.
Against all international law the
English bombarded coast towns such
az Kribi, Swakopmund and Das-es-
Salem German missionaries and
their families suffered especially.
It is criminal offense against
the moral sentiments OF our age that
from the beginning Of the war until
now the English have forcibly pro-
/ hibited any exchange of news be-
tween the African colonists and their
families at home. Such cold blcoded
prohibition tears the family tic
asunder, deprives the separated
parties of every hope and solace
and abandons them to endless ankle
ty and agony about the fate of their
beloved ones.
These facts cannot be disputed
The English and French in their
| procedure against the German col
onies in Africa have trampled on
the sanctity OF international obliga-
tions which they have guaranteed.
Not only in our colonies, but all over
the world wherever German econo-
mic enterprise was manifested the
English and French have seized
private poperty, destroyed it and ex-
PEELED the Germans in order to ruin
Systematically German labor and
German methods and substitute their
own. Instances of this are the pro-
cedure of the French in Morocco. OF
the English in Hongl1ong, Ceylon
and other British colonies.
JOHANN ALBRIGHT.
Duke of Mecllenburg, President of