"The free and spacious life of a Colony, such as we know it, was strangled in official regulations. It is a notable and remarkable fact that the majority of even those irreconcilable Boers who drifted into the German Colony after the South African War came back willingly into British territory, preferring the easy-going freedom of our rule to the pipe-clay rigidity of the Germans. The trail of militarism was best shown by the fact that even out of the 15,000 white inhabitants no fewer than 3,000 were soldiers or police"