The Prussian Lash in Africa; The Story of German Rule in Africa (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... V GERMAN JUSTICE German Togoland is a small colony only fk1-about three times the size of Belgium. It rich, however, in tropical products, Jespecially in oil nuts and cocoa, and is inhabited by the most docile and harmless among African natives. In 1894 its population was officially estimated at 2,500,000; by 1911, that is to say, in twenty years, it had sunk to 1,032,000.' These figures are only estimates, but there is no doubt at all that they represent what is substantially the truth, and it is also true that in the neighbouring Gold Coast Colony, under British rule, the population has 1 Deutscher Kolonialatlaa, 1914. risen from 337,000 in 1901 to 1,501,000 in 1911. And the Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg, who visited those regions some years ago, had the humiliation of meeting everywhere on the Gold Coast natives of Togoland who had run away from the terrors of German administration. What these terrors are were revealed in the German Reichstag on December 3rd, 1906, by Herr Roren, ajespeced Prussian $ islsw--Judge. It appears that a certain Herr.JG. H. Schmidt, a District Director in. 'Togoland, kept a native harem. To recruit this establishment he summoned the native girls of Atakpame to a dance on pain of a fine of twenty marks to be inflicted on their mothers. The Catholic mission station thought it time to interfere, and gave it out that no girl who wished to become a Christian was to go to Herr Schmidt's party. Herr Schmidt retaliated by forbidding the natives to complain to the missionaries. He seized a young girl named Adjaro, who was not over fourteen years of age, and refused to return her to her parents; this was reported to the missionaries, who were also told that the girl had been severely flogged, and they laid the matter before...