WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



To what extent fire - arms are handed over to the 

 natives of Africa, in certain districts, may be read in a 

 recently published book by Alfred Kaiser, on Kamerun, 

 according to which, within the past two years, forty 

 thousand muzzle-loading guns were imported and sold 

 to the natives, together with four hundred thousand 

 pounds of gunpowder. 



In South Africa the country was despoiled of its ani- 

 mal wealth largely by natives hunting with fire-arms in 

 the service of traders. 



May the fauna of German East Africa be spared a 

 similar fate! The way to accomplish this, and also to 

 assure a peaceful development of the colony, may be 

 indicated by three words: 



DISARM THE NATIVES 



