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and their unheard of means and ends in war, — for the destruction
of precious values of civilization which entire generations
will not suffice to restore. 1
CHAPTER III.
Violation of the Congo Acts. The Colonial War.
Chapter III of the Congo Acts of February 23th, 1885,
(General Acts of the Berlin Conference) which was signed by
Germany, Belgium, France, England and Russia as well as
other states, deals with the neutrality of the territory nominally
included in the district of the Congo Basin.
These districts are carefully described in Article I. The
whole of East Africa and other parts of the German colonial
possessions are included (a third of the Cameroons, in especial
New Cameroon) ; England is represented by British East Africa,
the Uganda Protectorate, a small part of North Rhodesia (see,
in supplementation, the memorial of the German Government
of March 1915 with regard to the negotiations relative to the
neutralization of the Congo Basin, in which proof is brought
forward that the German Government had done all in its power
in order to preserve the African colonies from war).
Germany, with the aid of the American Government who
were especially interested during 1884—85 in the question of
neutralizing all colonies lying within the Free Trade zone, had
endeavored to procure the acceptance of this measure. But
its efforts were frustrated by the opposition offered by the
countries of the Triple Alliance, England, France and Belgium. a
1 See an article by Brantschaninow upon the Russian-English preliminaries
and their pernicious influence upon Russia and its declaration of war
in the "Nowoe Zweno" of the nth of July, 1914 ("Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung"
of the 10th of October, 1914) and the familiar expression of the former President
of the Duma, Gutschkow, upon the 'Approach of the Pan-European War,"
as well as the remark of Ramsay Macdonald: "A war of the diplomats, made
by half-a-dozen of them."
2 See also the author's article upon "England's Guilty Share in our
Colonial War," in the "Frankfurter Zeitung," 1st Morgenblatt, March 21st,
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