the government whose title is to he determined.” This principle I have endeavoured to express in the following formula: “The natives have the right to demand that they should at all times be regarded by the more highly- developed races as an end and not only as a means''' Here too—in the field of native interests in the German colonies,—the defamation which has been spread abroad during the war can be refuted by countless impartial tributes paid in times of peace and sanity.

Ill-treatment of German Missionaries.

The work of the German missionaries among the natives has been in the highest degree salutary and constructive. It has been performed entirely from hum­anitarian and not from national considerations. ^For the German missionary institutions have always em­phasized the super-national nature of the true missionary goal and the universal fraternity that bounçL these men to a great and common task. This ideal has always been upheld—from the very day when German mission­aries first set foot in stranger colonies—as two hundred years ago in India—where they preceded the English.

The inhuman wrongs and sufferings inflicted upon that body of heroic, God-fearing and self-sacrificing Christian gentlemen, the German missionaries in the British and in their own colonies, furnish one of the blackest pages of the war. It was the ruthless negation