PETER MOOR'S JOURNEY TO SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.
Peter Moor's Journey to South-West Africa. By Gustav FrenSsen. Translated by Margaret May Ward. (A. Constable and Co. 4s: 6d. net.)—It seems that the conscription in Germany does not sweep so'close but that there are left some who wish to enlist. Thus Peter enlists in the Marines at Kiel, and when the rebellion breaks out in German South-West Africa he volunteers. And so we have this story,—"-first the journey, then the reaching the African coast, and then, in due course, the campaign. The Germans, it would seem, were not better off than our men, but suffered from bad clothing, insufficient food, and all the other troubles of warfare in such a; country as South Africa. Then there are the details of the fighting, certainly hot such as to make 'a reader, eager to have a part in it. Also we have questions disoussed as to the right or wrong of the whole matter. " ' Children,' said one of the older men who had been long in the country, ! how should it be otherwise [than that the natives should revolt] ? They were ranchmen and proprietors, and we were there to make them landless working men. And they rose in revolt.'" So it is everywhere, in Natal, in the Cape, in other places:without end. If anywhere the difficulty has disappeared, it is ,because the natives have-. vanished or become a quite insignificant element of the population. Inarticulate they always must be. Rebellion. is the, only way by which they can make themselves heard. This is a notable book, both for what it
actually, tells and for the questions which it suggests. •
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