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Show GERMANS WOULD GRAB TRADE. British Merchants In East Africa Have a Kick Coming. Unidon. Winston Churchill, under secretary of state for tho colonies, who lias started on a tour which will talje him Into tho Interior of Africa, will, when lie reaches Nairobi, on Victoria Vic-toria Nynnza, have presented to lilm a problem that hnR been cnusing very serious misgivings to those Hrltlshers who have established themselves upon the shores of the lake nnd have in many enses built up large business in trading with the natives of the adjacent ad-jacent territory. Theso pioneers of Afrlcn fear that a scheme which tho aormnn government Is carrying out to divert tho trndo of the country from Ilrltlsh to (lorman ports on tlio cast const, which Is now carried over tho Uganda rallwny, n line subsidized, will not only hurt tho business, hut will seriously hurt the navigation of tho lako by lowering its waters. |