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ONLY A PRO-GERMAN CASTE?

After the scribes of the English White Book had recovered from their astonishment at the faithfulness of our Askaris, an element which scarcely fitted into their programme of defamation, — they suddenly remembered their patriotic duty. If great and noble things could not be denied on the German side, then it was certainly a true Briton’s duty to disparage and falsify these things as much as possible, so that in the end they might still serve the purpose of weapons or missiles against Germany.

The following subterfuge was therefore tried, and promulgated with all that diabolic and cynical ingenuity of which the patriotic Briton, bent upon defaming an opponent, is capable. The Askaris, it was said, were alienated from their tribes by the Germans during their long terms of service, and developed into a special military caste. They were taught to regard themselves as a higher race in comparison with the ordinary inhabitants of the land. The unsuspecting and uninformed reader was thereby led to draw the conclusion that a caste of this sort, arti< ficially cut off from its roots in its own country, would naturally cling closely to the Government which had created it and upon whose existence its own depended, and perl