Dr. Marx, the German Chancellor, has reported to the Reichstag
Committee on conditions in the occupied areas. He says that the Allies have withdrawn 10,000 troops as they promised-8,000 French, 1,000 British and 1,000 Belgian ; but he adds that there are more than 1,000 coloured troops in Mainz and certain other towns, that French manoeuvres have taken place when the harvest was still being gathered,. and that, though acts of oppression against German citizens - are less noticeable than they were, they still occur. We are not able to pass judgment on Dr. Marx's charges about oppression, but we do not stand in any need of particular evidence when we • say that the retention of coloured troops as warders of Europeans is an offence, and that the retention of troops of any sort is quite illogical now that Germany has been received into the League. It has been said that so long as any foreign troops remain Germany would prefer that part of them should be British. However that may be, we wish that our Government would withdraw the remnant of- British troops. They would thus show what we are sure they feel on this subject.
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