Excerpt from The German Colonies: What Is to Become of Them?As the facts eventually came out in Germany and the scandal could not be hushed up, a re-trial was ordered, and this merely reduced the sentences. Herr Dernburg declared in the Reichstag that a criminal, or even a disciplinary, action could not lie against officials denounced in the native chiefs' petition, and added that obviously one could not quite approve of the manner in which natives are tried and sentenced in the Cameroons, though he was issuing instructions that would put everything right. The basis of the Akwa chiefs' complaints was not even investigated, yet these poor men had not made their solemn protest until their patience and endurance were exhausted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.