German Colonization Past And Future - The Truth About The German Colonies (Paperback)

GERMAN PAST AND FUTUkE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GERMAN COLONIES BY DR. HEINRICH SCHNEE LATE GOVERNOR OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA AUTHOR OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA IN THE WORLD WAR, WORLD POLICY, ETC. WITH INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON AUTHOR OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE, 1867-1914, THE EVOLUTION or MODERN GERMANY, PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE, ETC. WITH 24 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK ALFRED - A - KNOPF MCMXXVI CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 47 CHAPTER I. HOW THE GERMAN COLONIES WERE SEIZED 49 .. 62 III. THE ALLEGED MILITARISM IN THE GERMAN COLONIES . 74 IV. THE ALLIED POWERS AND THEIR SACRED TRUST . . 9 3 V. THE TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES ..... 101 VI. THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY AND FORCED LABOUR . 1 9 VII. GERMAN RULE AND MANDATE RULE COMPARED . . 144 VIII. WHAT THE NATIVES REALLY WANT J 62 IX. THE FUTURE THE WAY OF PEACE J 7 3 ILLUSTRATIONS F CING PAGE SCENERY AT DAR-ES-SALAM, GERMAN EAST AFRICA . . 48 SCENERY AT WINDHOEK, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA 49 GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL, DUALA, THE CAMEROONS ... 56 NATIVE HOSPITAL, DUALA, THE CAMEROONS .... 57 MATERNITY HOSPITAL AT WINDHOEK, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. . 64 NATIVE LABORATORY ASSISTANTS IN THE INSTITUTION FOR EPIDEMIC RESEARCH, DAR-ES-SALAM, GERMAN EAST AFRICA 65 GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL, DAR-ES-SALAM, GERMAN EAST AFRICA . So HOSPITAL FOR NATIVES SUFFERING FROM SLEEPING SICKNESS AT UDJIDJI, GERMAN EAST AFRICA 8l RAILWAY BRIDGE SPAN 159.60 METRES, SANAGA SOUTH BRANCH, THE CAMEROONS 88 CABLE RAILWAY IN USAMBARA, GERMAN EAST AFRICA . . 89 QUEEN CHARLOTTE HOSPITAL, LOME, TOGOLAND ... 96 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT LOME, TOGOLAND ... 97 PUBLIC SCHOOL AT WINDHOEK, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. . .112 NATIVE SCHOOL AT MALIFA, SAMOA .... . 113 SCHOOL AT WUGA, GERMAN EAST AFRICA I2O CARPENTERSWORKSHOP, THE CAMEROONS 121 FARM AT WUGA IN USAMBARA, GERMAN EAST AFRICA, 128 COCOANUT PLANTATION, GERMAN EAST AFRICA .... 129 YOUNG SISAL PLANTATION, GERMAN EAST AFRICA . . . 144 PREPARING SISAL, GERMAN EAST AFRICA 145 WASHING RUBBER, GERMAN EAST AFRICA 152 8 ILLUSTRATIONS r CING PAGE RUBBER DRYING HOUSE, GERMAN EAST AFRICA . . 153 NATIVE CARPENTERS AT WORK IN A MISSION WORKSHOP, GERMAN EAST AFRICA l6o PRINTING OFFICE WITH NATIVE ASSISTANTS, GERMAN EAST AFRICA l6l INTRODUCTION IN the third chapter of The Four Georges, Thackeray, that valiant crusader against hypocrisies and shams, strikes vigor ously at the practice of bearing false witness in time of war. Referring to the struggle with France under the First Napo leon, he says There was no lie we would not believe no charge of crime which our furious prejudice would not credit. I thought at one time of making a collection of the lies which the French had written against us and we had published against them during the war it would be a strange memorial of popular falsehood. Mr. Baldwin, who, for the good of his countrymen, continues to administer to them one excellent moral tonic after another, each after a judicious interval, spoke to much the same effect in his late very noteworthy address to the students of Edin burgh University November 6th, an utterance in pleasing contrast to another rectorial address to youth spoken in Scotland a twelvemonth or more before. With war and the preparation for war, he said, go the stratagems of diplomacy, the dropping of the code of morals, a holiday for truth, and an aftermath of cynicism. ... In the arena of international rivalry and conflict men have placed patriotism above truthfulness as theindispensable virtue of statesmen. Time, which changes most things, does not appear to have lessened the proclivity to mendacity of patriots of the baser order, nor yet the gullibility of the unreflective mass of man kind. Much of the propagandism evoked by the Great War amply proves this. All the leading belligerent nations suffered from calumny and misrepresentation manifold, yet it is probably safe to say that they usually gave as good or as bad as they received...