The disaster reported from German East Africa turns out very
serious. According to the Zanzibar correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, the expedition sent in August to attack a warlike mountain tribe named the Wahehe has been prac- tically annihilated. "Ten European and three hundred native members have been killed, and three hundred Mauser rifles, two cannon, two Maxim guns, with all the ammunition of the column, have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Four Euro- peans and sixty natives have fled to Kondora. The station of
Mpwapwa, and the caravan-route leading to it, are threatened." Kondora, a place on the caravan-route between Mpwapwa and Tabora, is one of the oldest German settlements in East Africa. The Wahehe are related to the Zulus, and emigrated to their present land from the South. One should, of course, be careful not to exaggerate this rebuff, but the Germans must remember that their system of administrative and military colonisation cannot be carried out except at a considerable expense of men and treasure.
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