The Times of Thursday printed extracts from an estimate of
the work of Sir Frederick Lugard from the Bulletin of the Committee of French Africa, the most militant organ of French colonial expansion. The Bulletin praises unreservedly Sir Frederick's work, the "daring and sincere" style of his Reports, and the self-sacrificing patriotism which be showed in his devotion to the new territories under his authority. It recognises that his earlier opposition to French enterprise sprang solely from the fact that " he served his country with passion." It recognises also that things have changed of late years, and that no one was more appreciative of the work of France than the High Commissioner, or more ready to extend a cordial greeting to the French officers and savants whc visited Northern Nigeria. No better instance could be found of the altered relations between the two countries than that a journal which has always been active in urging the pre- dominant claims of France in North-West Africa should go out of its way to publish a sincere and well-informed apprecia- tion of a British administrator who has certainly never slackened in defending British interests.
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