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THURSDAY, SEPTËMBER 5, 1918.

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EFFECT OF RETURN ON THE NATIYE.

The following, letter is trin a cö.

personal, knowledge of war conditions in West ind East Africa-

the white an adance illustrating is AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE occurred in Cameron when a pative IN THE HIMALAYAS. patrol, meeting a hostile patrol, under Geraan leer, sont back for white, man to gente shoot white man while black man shoot black than," This sud.

INTIMATIONS

The discussion reported in the latest NEW STOCKS OF

issue of the Geographical Journal re- Earding the possibility of variat recon- Balance in the Himalayas shows that

respondent of the Times" who has don nut, to this nutive, ronsanless rever-] dying experts are unfavourable to the son Troas our teaching bust without ques-proposals put forward by Dr. A. M., tion weakened the white man's prestige Kellar who read a paper before the while at the same line the native has Roral Geographical Society on this gained and justifiably the knowled subject. Dr. Krilas, who is a noted

f his own indispensability

x and his mountaineer and has spent a considèr, able time in climbing in the Himmlayak, prowess generally as a soilier. On the aid, thab assuming twenty-three to

Fam writing from a remots and in-1 accessible part of East Africa rails from korte tako two or three months to

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days the accumulated news of weeks, and changes in public opinion at home may appear more sharply defined and sudden than would be the case were one in gloser and more boutinuous touch. How ever that may be, latest malls, give evidence of a decided wavering in public er political opinion at home on the ques tion of the "tual disposal of the con quered German colonies in Atties.

From an official assurance that these colonies wild never be returned we have

factorily.

back men standing stelfast in a fight ximate elevation which might be have seen white men turn and rum. But required for clearing the main ranga to enlarge on what are fortunately very there was no doubt that an airman rare instances would be both painful au cou'd negotiate that altitude Aatis

Experimental work in unprofitable. This lowering at pressige,air chambers and balloons daring however, has, us"far as our nations which air admixed with oxygen was breathed clearly indicated that altitudes concerned," been offset by the fact that higher than the Inftiest Himalayan we have comiterii,'

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of landing and starting at considerable Dr. Kellas remarked that while heights The native knows that we can fight-landing on show would be easy on many

mountains, nating

off again would be has seen

our gang, aaroplane, and buttienother matter and once landexi an Representatives :---- Nagasaki, Karatsu, Wakamatsu, Moji, degenerated so far us to have it ciicialy ships, and reulizes our strength and sur aviator might find himself marooned. thousand feot where this could be Kure, Kobe. Osaka, Tauraga Nagoya,uggested that their destiny must remain predominance meng white men. For Still, he new places above twenty she, momcut the German phite man is accomplished, the post favourable being Yokohama, Tokyo, Hakodate, Meroran, in the hands of their inhabitanta!

feet) near the Tibetan border. about one This is, of course, equivalent to leaving Otaru, Vladivostock, Peking. Tientsin,

about six hundred miles north of Dairen, Tsinan, Hankow, Shanghai, the question an open one. "The native, as, with ear enormous African pass hundred miles porth of Siliguri and Calcutta. In the course of the dis- Taipeh. Hongkong. Canton. Haiphong, it he were capable of voting or of realizons, need not be discussed.

cussion which fellowell Admiral Mark In this connection it must be remena- Manila, Singapore, Calcatta, Londoning the mequing of a vete, world, of

and New York. »

would course, plomp for the nearest white bered that what the northera or East Kerr, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff,

had been proposed such as Coast native knows today the West pressed the bolief that plonstion author the top dog" whichever way. Coast nadve kocus to-morrow.

Connot be carried ont by heroplane in Renvy hundred years. thu ROXE you like to put it.. Were Briton or Germuniration throughout the whole of "p-

machines would, he pointed out, be

in CYLA

Englind man to appear on apparently equal terus before a village or tribal Chief, the

there were aerodromes properly Inici winter gat which could not be used Chief's vote would quite naturally be

Because directly the ground got wet BEST CARS IN THE COLONY FOR given to the better dressed" or better

was impossible for benvy machines to rise from chem at al. The same point. armed of the two. And how, one is

was emphasised by Major Lees, .... while Captain Swinton, R.E, dwelt on temptet is, woull the vote of the

the

of finding a pilot who could dy a machine in the wind

great difficulty of wandering Semtli tribe in British Fast

currents that must certainly exist at Alries Er the bushmen Cameroon se

great altitudes. Major Taylor. R.F.C held that there would be no insuperable phtalmed? The idea, were it to be taken

difficulty in navigation or in making & seriously, would be comis.

which had been described, but bo did photographie survey of the heights not believe it would be possible to land there. In summing up the discussion, the Chairman declared that he never remembered a meeting of the Society at which the project of proposed expedi tion was received with a more unanimous negative on the part of those best com- petert to judge, except on the occasio

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This is, however, beside my point, What I do want to give Expression to is the feeling of alaria-I enn use no milder term-which this dangerous change of opinion has caused to all of us out here

civilized" Afrios is not only extraordi required. narily rapit, but extraordinarily though. It will be even more so in the future, withe event one wants who and fenght side by side with the East Coast native and has earnt his language, re- turns again to his hetne...

The native fears and respects us our conquest in this, the discrepancies between our teashings and our nations ignored. But we may be forgotten must show no weakness. Should we give what we have gained, oar indurare with the native will be infinitely less thou it was before the war, while German influence will be increased..

The native will attribute our action ga

in

for the has already had geut dillivalry in fathoming the reason for cür kind and to anyone, indeed, who has the slightest ever partial treatment of German prison acquaintanen with native African condi-ers), and the German himself will not when Dr. Napsan put before them the

tions

in the He he fail to dla bis utmost to deepen this im-Bros & driven acros, the Artic I have served in the Cameroon and pression just us, at the commencement that this would be a happy augury for of the war in East Africa," he endeavour the suggestion Dr. Kellas had made.

Chairman then recounted East African campaigns, have forraedd en degrade af in the eyes of the native The

statement made to him in the year part of the. Togaland garrison, and have by his treatment of British prisoners. 1013 which is of sumo significance

in view of

since occurred. what has slight acquaintance with other parts of I have heard it said by forth" Africans

that if wo fetara these colonies-refer. He was told by a Spaniard in an official Africa. This forms my sole testimonia

riag, of course, more particularly to position that the main object of a Ger- Which and authority for writing.

German South-West Africa and German meteorological expedition,"

had been cumped for several years on East Africave Jose South Africa.

the plain at the base of the higher alope However that may be,, we shall her of the peak of Tenerife, was to establishi tainly lose a very large measure of a base for aircraft in the event of a war control over the, native, which cur with Fugland in order that the Germans colonists have, at bitter cast, built might harass the converging walls from South Aftica and South America rond for me.

the Canary Islanda. "I did not believe. it then." he added, "but 1 am inclined to believe it now."

AUSTINA PRZSTIGE

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The danger of giving back, in a countrý like Afrien, what has been gained in con quest lies in the fact that it can spell que" thing only, weakness, to the native

There is one other point I should like Our prestige in Africa has been in ons way greatly weakened, by the war, into touch upon. As we have progressed another way immensely strengthened..

Before thin war, the white man (speak

in conquest, so has the native gathered. to our side. Our intelligence work has improved, the number of enemy deser

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able classing by the native into caste of the poor" and "rich" white max) 7174 They had to swim back to the was a white man whatever his Euro-

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June 12-My house in a Rafter over thecoming to live with us of our Domestic Ohr consistent and universal teaching

Controller. No householder now being able to keep pace with the Orders, the has been that it was sinful to fight. Any

Forms to fill, and the Ration books, the transgression of this law by the native has been almost invariably followed by This might well mean that scarcely Government hath appointed & Resident punitive measures on our part, Casting village in the enormous conquered, area Controller" for every household, which mcaneth over seven million new Control lers. infinitely the greatest number who this teaching to the winds, all without but will have to offer up ita

yeason apparent to him, we have snd. as an example for the future. The bare have been created in one lump, and a Jane 13-Up early to let in the denly called upon the native not only to possibility of such a betrayal of trust sore new expense upon the taxpayer.

makes one shudder. We are either going kill his fellow native, but to kill the to win this war or lose it. There can be workmen, to remoze our gus and electric to give to the Controller as his Depart white mar. It was, indeed, with con-no "even draw," and just as one would meters to my study. (which I am ordered siderable difficulty at the beginning cffnet think of returning a knife to a murment) and to ft shelves to the walls for the war in Africa that the Askari (cative derer who had failed in his attempt 10 him to array all our Orders, Forms, workmen also with a fire-and- Come soldier), could be induced to fire upon tab one in the back, so we should not Permits to Live and other "dossiers. think of returning such a weapon, burglar proof safe for our cool. quatur dered more powerful to the native mind and apothecaries' scales to weigh it. by the mere action of returning. But it does seem to me that our Govern. the German colonies would prove to the meut, making these seven million fire- proof coal safes, do lavish our money as Germans.

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