WHAT IS TRUTH?

»The Germans have not understood how to win the loyalty and the confidence of the natives in their colonies.«

»The Germans have inflicted unendurable burdens and injustice upon the helpless population of their pro# tectorates.«

»German rule in the colonies is a brutal, idealess system of mere force without the slightest appreciation of the thoughts and feelings of the subjugated peoples. Its purpose is merely the oppression, the exploitation and finally the extermination of the natives.«

»Hence the English and their allies have been greeted everywhere in the German colonies by the hapless pop# ulation as the saviours, as the bringers of freedom and a better future. The Englishmen at once captures the hearts of the blacks. And quite justly so. For no one understands how to treat the unsophisticated children of uncivilized lands so justly and so humanely as he, to preserve and protect their native peculiarities and human dignity and to further their moral and physical welfare.«

»Ask the native peoples in the German colonies. Everywhere we hear the cry: »Away with the hated German tyrannyl Welcome, Union Jack!«

Such are a few of the cries and phrases which rise clamorously from the enemy camp. These charges and