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Enclosure No. 8.
Translation.
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 5th. April 1927)
Letter from the German Consul-General, denying that
his country has any ambition to acquire a colony in China.
To
The Editor,
The Man Kwok Yat Po.
There appeared in your issues of the 2nd. and
3rd. March this year some items of news acquired from
the Sino-European News Agency, Berlin, about the attitude
of various political parties in Germany towards the
Chinese National Revolution. It is stated there in that
the majority of the people in Germany still cherish
a desire to obtain some colonies in China and have
suggested that if they are not immediately in a position
to achieve this end themselves, they should appeal for
assistance to the League of Nations.
I write this specially to draw your attention to
the above items of news. It is probable that the reporter of the Sino-European News Agency has made a mistake through misunderstanding the colonial movement
in my country.
The object of our colonial movement is to recover our colonies in East and West Africa, that is to say those given up to the Allies after the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles, and now under the control
of the Allies. We never had any colony in your country: and Tsing Tau was not a colony similar to ours in Africa. We have good reasons for claiming the return
of our colonies in Africa. When they were under our administration, much progress was made in civilisation and economic development, and therefore the majority of
the