In response to Ernst's directive.
Beginning on April 3, 1867, after several meetings, the upper ranks of the East African Colonial Government decided to launch a year-long "purge" campaign.
The meaning was clear from the name alone. This so-called "purge" targeted the natives within the colony, sorting out and clearing away the unstable elements in the East African colony.
And those unstable elements were the local natives and tribes.
To mobilize the manpower of the entire East African colony for this operation, the East African Colonial Government directly assigned tasks to every immigrant settlement by region.
Each settlement was to bring its own provisions and encircle and suppress the natives and tribes around villages and towns.
Kagongo Town was a town under Kigoma in the Lake Tanganyika region.
Today, Kagongo Town posted an announcement regarding the "purge" campaign issued by the East African Colonial Government on the bulletin board in the village.
The immigrants knew the purpose of the bulletin board. Whenever there was a major move, the Colonial Government would post the corresponding policies and orders there.
All official documents in the colony were written in German. As the most highly educated group in the East African colony, the German mercenaries' elementary-school education gave them unquestioned authority there.
Only the students of Hechingen Military Academy and the African administrators dispatched by the Hohenzollern Conglomerate had somewhat higher levels of education.
But they also considered themselves Germans, and in their hearts, placed themselves in the same category as the mercenary groups.
In short, German speakers in the East African colony formed a unified group, one that belonged to the ruling class.
Even Chinese immigrants and immigrants from the Austrian Empire would be assigned to important positions and regarded as one of their own, so long as they knew German.