The Times of Thursday prints a long letter from Mr.
W. Scoresby Routledge, a distinguished Oxford man interested in sport and scientific research, recently resident in the Kenya Province of British East Africa, on the demoralisation of native women by British officials. Briefly put, his charges come to this: that the Acting District Commissioner at Nyeri caused two native girls of about thirteen years of age to be procured as his mistresses, and that, on an inquiry being held by Judge Barth at the instruction of the Governor last March, it was established that one of the girls was unwilling, and the other had been removed from the protection of a native policeman, who strongly resented the action of the Commissioner. As a result the incriminated official has lost one year's seniority, and will not be put in charge of a district for two years; while another official against whom similar charges were preferred has been severely admonished.
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