THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA
the
Although no details have been given, announcement yesterday that a political propagan- da department is being organised in Britain is an interesting supplement to the Churchill - Roosevelt Atlantic Charter. In that charter, Britain and the United States officially underwrote the democra- tic war aims, but the war has yet to be won. To that end, it is essential that the picture of the Nazi "new order" in oper- ation should be made better known not only throughout Europe, but to the free democracies also, partly as an object- lesson of what is in store! if Hitler is not smashed, partly as the groundwork of the crusade of libera- tion. The main purpose of the political propagan- da department is to en- courage the subjugated peoples and to fortify them to expect liberation before the influences now at work disarm them economically and morally as well as physically.
Without allies inside Europe, without the moral
support, the will-to-wait,
The
BLITZ
RUSSIAN
MPAIGN
HIGH AND DRY
см
Rule Of The Lash
independence to inspire ship over the less-civilised
It demands the right of ruler.
ped-
was most far the greater number of the
of millions in captivity, If the dogma of race superiority Į It was amongst this set of peo-¡ment would proclaim a polla tax suffering hunger, loss and of Nazi Germany were confined ple of the interior that German of six shillings per head. As by grief in a measure beyond solely to econuinic exploitation
of the world, une might under- maladministration our power to imagine, the stand it to mean nothing more marked; because, whereas on the people could not possibly find democratic war cannot be than # morbid expression of coast some sort of civil admins-this sum, the alternative was so
koman greed. But when the fol-tration was organised, here in many days labour without pay. won. It is to these mil-lowers of Hitter clamour for "a the interior jurisdiction was al- lions, then,
If they did not work they were that the place in the sun" meaning colon-most entirely in the hands of the beaten. I have it on the testi-
e and particularly thuse
military officers. The general at- Anglo-American joint de- Brons in Africa which were restitude of the governors there was mony of Dr. Schaedler who stat claration was first of all cued from their clutches in 1916, as Hassert laid down: "to keep ed in the Reichstag on November
the 28, 1906; ".
story of the subject takes a different col- the negroes to road making and directed. It carried a p10-our.
a whole porterage work at the stations our colonies contains
series of events of a
too mise of restored life and
not and other tasks of Kultur.”
pleasant kind: embezzlements, There was never a single peace-falsifying of accounts, assaults on them to hold out. Al-plos, and of applying the lash to ful year in Cameroon from the for native women, horrible ill treat- though this promise con- much a matter of exploiting the Governorship in July
Somation of its first German colonial ment-things that do not contri-
hute 1885, for
to a laurel wreath. The
be tained no guarantee that mineral resources there, but sheer the tribes continually resisted the colonies must no dumping
rate others
ground for second frontiers
love of inflicting on will
people. be
an bullying Germans.
Men with a past, or who are on the expression of
mastery. established as they were, one such region is the Cameroons But when the newly organised shelf and officials and officers who it revived the rather de- which adjoins the flourishing area government department began ex. are mentally and morally offen
sive." of Nigeria. flated word "self-deter-
This tract of country with mination," probably a re-
area of about 292,000 square miles flection of Mr. Roosevelt's and with a population of more half millions long-cherished idea that stretches inland from the north- internationally controlled eastern plebiscites will solve the Guinea in West Africa. It has a goodly Muslim population with
re-
the coloured races. It is not
than two and
German
a
an
corner of the Gulf of
infinitely difficult pro- which we are here concerned. blems of disputed terri- tories.
Black Record Of German Rule
By Shiekh A. Abdullah
Official Demi-Gods
of
The actual administration the country and Its justice was in chaos. Every official was law un- to himself. One such German officer created his native wife in to a kind of magistrate when he himself fell ill. She promptly had two negroes arrested on pansion into the interior, trouble false charge of brigandage, and started on a large scale. The when Captain Kamptz, the head- tribes, although armed only with man of the administration of the primitive weapons, doggedly hur region, visited the stations, she
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But the answer lies not in self-determination, as Should it ever have the misfor-assed the German military ex- handed over her prisoners to him. tune of passing back into German pedition. There was real reason They were bound to the muzzle we have learned in Croa- hands, the whole world of Islam: for this, for it threatened the live-of a gun and blown to pieces: tia and Slovakia and will mourn, as a Muslim- co-re-lihood of those engaged in the
the const Flogging, of course, was the Transylvania, but in the ligionist of mine from Africa re-transit-trade between
usual pastime of the German Station Officers in Cameroon. The experience the peoples
of
minded me only the other day. No and the interior. one there has forgotten the atro
Better In Cameroon, there are two sections of territory-northern and southern, the latter being the coastal region. It is in the north- kingdoms of Adamawa and Bornu, that Muslims are to be found in a predominant position.
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Europe are now enduring cities of Germon rule. The The Duala and Alewa chiefs on facts were so well known that the memory is so tragic that when the shores of the Cameroon river neighbouring colonies used to call. They are being driven mothers wish to frighten their were further alicnated by the It the land of twenty-five, that
children they still say, "Look, appropriation of their villages is, of twenty-five lashes. together by a 'common there's a German!”.
without compensation when the agony, unified under a
German port of Duala was built. Of this Deputy Bebel said in common yoke,
the Reichstag, "We had an on-
· Forced Labour portunity of judging some years than · perplexed states-
ago in this House, when a party Then the labour trouble arose. friend of mine laid a rhinoceros men, they know that the
ern arca, especially in the ancient This time between the German whip on the table of the House."} old structure cannot be
planters and the German Gover- Four "instruments of punishment rebuilt. They know that
nors. The former wanted men were used there for this purpose for work on the plantations and try the German administrators for where the boundaries
the Administration needed men for even the most trivial offences; stand matters far less
road building and for pushing the one was rhinocerous whip, an- railway line into the interior. other a rope's end, a third a birch than that, under any British organ of propa-
called the little-stick", and the government, the indivi- ganda to ensure that The Negro, of course, had no fourth salted strap. Many man choice about, lending his labour of that region can still show the dual is guaranteed funda- hope, that the dawn of to either. He was whipped and marks of flogging upon their mental human rights. It that new day will come, is beaten and made to work he a backs, and they would rather die
is the task of the new restored to Europe.
forded-labourer. At times when fighting than submit to the Ger labour was scarce, the govern- man rule aggin."
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