“TENDERER HANDS.”

This phrase is evidently one of the coinages of Lloyd George’s ready and demagogic tongue. »It is high time that the German colonies were taken out of the claws of the Germans and confided to tenderer hands.« The fortunate possessor of these »tenderer hands« is naturally John Bull.

A memorial recently issued by the German Colonial Office* will afford the reader abundant and authentic examples and illustrations of what ruin and ravin these tender hands have wrought in England’s own colonies everywhere throughout the world. We shall merely add in this place a few choice instances of how heavily this hand has weighed and still weighs upon our natives in German East Africa.

There is unimpeachable evidence to prove that the British administration has raised the maximum number of lashes in flogging sentences (fixed by German law at 25) to more than double in certain cases, in order that its orders and regulations might be given greater emphasis. And there are, moreover, witnesses to prove that this

* The Treatment of Native and Other Populations in the Colonial Possessions ot Germany and England. Published by the German Colonial Office. 1919. On Sale by Hans Robert Engelmann. Berlin, W15.