A Correction To the Editor of the "NonrH-CHINA.DaAiv News"
Su;-iMr. van Zeeland' alternative,-as well as the reflections of Mr, Patrick Balfour, appear to be based on incorrect information, During: the German occupation the two Manda and Urundi Were not taken into full administration by the German Government, but two members of the German civil. service were attached to the courts of the "Kings" of Manda and Urundi with the title and the functions 6f resident governors, The force at their disposal, 250 Askaris and 100 Native Policemen under German officers, did hardly call for much interference with the powerful kings at that time, and was too small to Suppress all their atrocities, It was, however, instrumental in suppressing native wars and inter-tribal fighting, One would expect that any government would have improved the situation' between 1918 and 1698.
In consideration of the dense population already existing, white settlement was entirely banned from Manda and Urundi by the German Government. So were all labour saft aS aci recruiters, The respective government order was due to the advice of Professor Dr. Rob, Koch (1898), who pointed out, that the natives of the highlands were more susceptible to malaria, than the inhabitants of the lowlands, if the Belgians maintain, that their Wards (?) would have died by thousands from malaria if they had been taken to the lowlands, they are right, but they cannot claim to be the first to make this discovery, This cut from a Tanganyika newspaper. the Congo scandals and Congo cruelties, and we Germans refuse to accept lectures on treatment of natives from such a source.
We are well informed of the improvements made during the Belgian Occupation and we do not mind if Messrs. van Zeeland and Balfour blow their trumpets in admiration, but we Germans deny them the right to do so to the discredit and at the expense of Germany, ALB. C. ARMBRUSTER, Shanghai, Mar, 1,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.