The Colonial Empire of Germany is not four years old,
and already she is beginning to feel some of the unpleasantnesses of foreign adventure. For some time there have been diffi- culties with the natives along the coast of the Sultanate of Zanzibar—that portion of the East Coast of Africa 'virtually annexed by Germany—and now news has been received in Berlin that a general rising has taken place, and that blacks and Arabs are alike concerned. Several officials of the German East African Company have been murdered, and one of the plantations of the Planters' Company has been attacked ; while it is expected that the rising will be directed against all Europeans. In Samoa, too, the Germans are in difficulties, their nominee, Tamasese, having been defeated by supporters of the King they dethroned last August, notwithstanding that the German Consul in person led the troops of the de facto Sovereign. No doubt the Germans do their native wars economically; still, they will find, as M. Ferry found in Madagascar, that hostile operations in the tropics even against savages wear out ships and men in a way which they will not: like.
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