BLACK COMRADES

»The German native soldier whose unfailing loyalty to the German cause has been one of the most surprising features of this campaign« — such is the conclusion and confession to which the author of the aforesaid English White Book is irresistibly forced. And truly no praise can be too great for the brave black fellows who, clad in their khaki uniforms with the tarboosh upon then- woolly polls, gladly performed the severest duties and suffered the greatest hardships which could be imposed upon human beings — side by side with their German leaders.

They have enriched human history by a magnificent example of simple and manly loyalty. Wherever ad« miration for such a supreme quality still exists upon this unfortunate and degenerate Earth, be it among friends or among foes, there swords must be lowered and hands raised in salute to these black comrades of ours.

Since this miracle can no longer be disputed, one should strive to understand it. Our opponents need not have been so astounded at what seems to us only natural, had they attempted in times of peace to study and understand our system of colonial education in a spirit of fair«mindedness. The period of war merely harvests what had been sown in the period of peace. No officer of the German Protectorate troops ever doubted