23 APRIL 1937, Page 20

GERMANS IN TANGANYIKA

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, With reference to the article which appeared in your issue of March 26th, under the heading " The Position in Tanganyika "—I do not know where your correspondent got his figures from but, according to the information in my possession, the number of Germans in Tanganyika is just on 3,000, and not 6,000 as stated by your correspondent—Yours His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies, Trade and Information Office, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C. 2.