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From General Smuts to the Secretary

of the Universities* Mission to Central Africa,



General Smuts' Headquarters,

Savoy Hotel,

London, W.C.
ISUi January, 1918.
Dear Mr, Travers,

I have read the Open Letter of the
Bishop of Zanzibar to me with the deepest
interest. It contains a very solemn plea to
the conscience of the British people, backed up
by an imposing array of solid facts.
Yours sincerely,

(Si(/ned) J. C. SMUTS.
4 THE BLACK SLAVES OF PRUSSIA

And I desire to address these facts to you, Sir, for
two reasons.
First, it is right that they should be set before one
who has had experience both of Africans and German
colonial rule, so that he may understand the exact
points involved. And no one of our leaders has that
experience in the same measure as you have.
