The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-01-02

SHALL GERMANY's COLONIES BE RETURNED?
.@OME INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS thrown the ques
ton of whether not Germanys colonies should be re-
turned her. by open letter to General SHUTS from Frank
Weston D. d. Bishop Zanzibar The writer who head of
the Universities Mission districts of German East
Africa has spent the German colonies and speaks from
actual experience with rshand information. His letter
appeal General SHUTS his influence to the
return of the African colonies Germany because he
impossible. The German does not under
stand the elementary principles of humane He is
efficient he polite he correct in his behavior and in his Of
ficial attitude but he German. And being German he
native tool he is cruel nhuman and under him
the African must become slave die" ILL. E..
The writer cites instances to his Indictment OF
the German colonial masters and says
Their failure due to their inbred cruelty which they
courage their African underngs They rule entirely
by fear punishmens their of spreading
terror turnout the land F1oggng the Germans
pleasure Now floggings oggngs The African
easily out And those who have had to Gov
Houses foggng times will bear out that it
ordinary oggg that produced the seks to which we had
listen personally not adverse from corporal
has much cruelty punishment The
German sjambo rhinocero hppopotamus hide cut
damage merely to hurt the soldiers who lay it
in the art and the German himself presdes at the
ceremony to that given To make it still more
cruel there law of foggng The condemned
tied up he ought to be- He lies the EARTH his face
the dust hard floor After the first two three strokes
usually keep STILL If he
nues wrgge and he is liable to receive the
strokes again. there and then Again when the
ishment excitement fOrgetS
attention and salute the German he is liable there and hen
to the whole punishment again. - 1t is dis
ease ogging makes the German feared everywhere
but poisons the German mind and the mind of the African
derng punishment the German loves making parents
and wife suffer for the faults Of son husband"
After describing the methods of torture employed by the Ger
ensavng labor the persecution of native chiefs
other which the German excels
peace a well as in war, the writer continues ~
"As final example of German terrorism let add that
require rule to be supplied with
sleeping place. The naturally do not pick them
from their own families method of gov
ernng Africans cruelty destructive of the
tves respect exactly designed make him the obed
lent slave European power and day. The fear of
deeply rooted the natives that the of
niative only with those wo sharing in the admnstra
tons of country their profit AS slavery the
Africans whatever tribe religion have for been
longing for the Germans to go from their land"
The letter closes with the following appeal:
"Yet final appeal the ground not of
pedency policy but of devotion to liberty The sacrifices
blood money already by Great Britain and her Allies
gone to make good their pledge that they will be free
die
freedom within reach, and by Gods good grace
the Entente powers failure that would
living this hour approaching victory them shall
the blood outpoed? Or shall rob dead
triumph? In treatment of Africa shall find
If raise liberty throne high that scepter
can African tribe
ones justified, and their blood avenged"
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WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
~R. DELEMAR EUGENE CROFT, who in 1917 read from
of To in has