HC Deb 23 November 1938 vol 341 cc1757-8
64. Mr. McEntee

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what was the number of Europeans and what was the number of Germans in Tanganyika in August, 1914; and what are the numbers of Europeans and of Germans in Tanganyika now?

Mr. M. MacDonald

According to the figures of a German census taken in 1913, the number of Europeans in Tanganyika Territory was 5,336, of whom 4,107 were Germans. At the end of 1937 the total European community was estimated to be 9,107 which included 2,981 Germans.