New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-14
THE UITU MASSACRE.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE GERMAN ooNsULGES'
re.r--TuE WITH sULTAN's PRovoCATIoN.

orr,crAr. REPORT OF THE GERMAN CoNsUL-GES.
ERAI-THE WITH sULTAN's PRovocATIoN.
Late dispatches have reported the burning OF tho
city OF Wltu on the eastern coast OF Africa, neS
Zanzibar, by Admiral Freemantle on october -.
Germany having recently surrendered TO bngsh"
the protectorate Of With and Its district consider"
the British responsible for any injury inhcted upon
corman traders or colonlss and Admiral Freemantle
had been ordered to avenge the killing OF nine German
subjects nv the people OF the African town. 10
appears however, that the massacre was not enurey
unproyoked as shown by the report OF lierr 'i'nr
belles the German ConsulGeneral at ZANZIBAR "me'
has been published in the Berlin ofical paper "''
" Rechsanzeiger' ..
A summary OF that report. printed by European
r.ners shows that Mr.. Kunzel arrived at Lamo"
With ton men about the end OF August, intending 10
carry on lumber trade In the suitarate Oh VIM.
lie afterward went further inland to the 'iuasc w
Mkonumbi where lie purposed establishing sa"m'''
There he sought the necessary permit from .oe sua
The latter was not in the least prciudiced AGAINST W.
vrpze, Int he answered that while his territory WIS
,,der German protection he required ina: every
Eronean settler should be introduced by TIE "erman
colonial authorities and thaS now, after IL 's' p.
under the British protectorate thc sa''o io'"
must be observed through English omehi repNs
tlycs Mr.. Kunzel promised TO give sanstacHo' "
the Sultan in that respect SIM nc uiu nv' ''s,ns
as lie was advised to do by the sultan TIE o"ai's
% his establishment at Mkonumbi. Besides tha' III.
men built for themselves cabins witmh TWO nov"
march from WITH. although their s'ahuihs !" wv
country had not yet been established a..
r,o c,,,a, Fumo I.akari protested, and csileo
urv., IN WITH They had u conversation winch must
| 49,, loo, rather violent for when the German con-
.n,o,o ,r the sultan's palace he made scene upon
tho nuhIc square, where the sovcregn's standard was
S,splayed on flagstaff and insul'ei the sultan pup,
,,c,y ON account Of these proceedings kunhei anu
| ~. nmr,nions we're led into house at WITH ana
kept under strict watch There they spent ,r,e S
days n" that they were not we'll watched. they AZ
nes, ,sd 10 escape. Aiming themselves VITA ne.
op which they had MANAGED Ia conceal they ists
VOWEL, ron and walked toward the gates Of the city,
s, ,u tthev were soon stopped. 49,, j.,
n" s,r,ns began but it Is impossible as admitted "a
La. Wichahccs's report to say which side fired ING
arst shot Mr. Kunzci was killed Win eight Oh az
naann,,n.oions ONLY member OF the party Wa
able 10 escape under the brush thousn wopnaeu ~" IN
an reach Lamon. The man left BY Mr.. kuilhei ~
S.rs" OF his establishment near WITH Was miIuesvS
soon a crwa The onraged natives In inc eity ~
Iose 10 all the whites who could be seeii most ~
whom however succeeded in escaping with Their n.es.
Waxrrtheless the plantations Of the survivors weIe
socNed and burned and the men are now At Lan n
having lost all they possessed reward OF i vu~
rpees has been offered for tbs capture oil the SULTAN"