TANGANYIKA: Little Oration

In Tanga, port of Tanganyika (before the War, German East Africa), Britons seethed with righteous indignation last week, wrote letters to the papers, sent cables to the Foreign Office, demanded the withdrawal of German Consul, Herr Speiser.

Short time ago the small (6,000 tons) super-efficient German cruiser Karlsruhe dropped anchor in Tanga harbor. Seldom nowadays has a German Consul on the east coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the...

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