The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-13
WAR In CENTRAL AFRICA
THE ARABS DECIDE TO DRIVE
OUT THE WHITES.

Their Resolution the Result of the
British Attempts TO Suppress the
Slave Trade-Msny Whites Already
Killed-The Ma tives Hunting Down
Two Expeditions.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 12.-The In dependence
Beige says that twenty agents of the
Katanga company have been killed or capt
ured by Arabs on the upper Congo river.
The steamer Bernaret, which was taking
goods up the river, was seized and factories
razed. Whole tribes on the western bank
of the river are in insurrection. The Arabs
northwest Of Nyangwe have gone down the
Luelabe river and captured the station at
Ribariba, killing the whites employed there.
The stations on the upper Lomassi have
also been destroyed. The Arabs at Stanley
Falls and Isangi, who have hitherto been
loyal, are showing hostility. The Congo
state authorities are sending relnrorcements
TO various points threatened by the Arabs.
Dispatches from Zanzibar bring news OF
a thrilling character. The Arab insurrec-
tion under Roumaliza has spread from
Tanganyike to Stanley Falls. and what was
merely a local demons tration has developed
into general uprising of the Arabs of Gem
trail Africa against white domination.
The Arabs have grown desperate owing to
the evident determination OF the whites to
suppress the slave trade, by which the
Arabs have accumulated their wealth and
established their power.
ENCOURAGED BY THEIR VICTORIES.
They we're greatly encouraged by the
disaster to the British under Capt Mcguire,
haV- yxytn "A
two other Englishmen lost their lives in a
conflict with slave traders, and the Arabs
were still more strengthened in their hos
tile attitude by the more recent successful
attack on Fort Johnston. No hostile
natives had been seen there for some time,
and the garrison had boon lulled into false
sense of security. Two Of thu white men
with some Of the Sikhs and a 7-pounder gun
were encamped just outside the fort when
they were surprised during the night by a
body OF natives, who wounded the Europe
ans and captured the gun.
SPREADING THE NEWS.
Makil Makanjila, Kssembe and other
Arab chiefs, incensed by the stoppage of
their remunerative traffic in slaves, entered
into communication with other Arabs. tell
ing them of their success against the British
and urging them to join general move
ment TO drive the whites from Central
Africa. From advices received at Zanzi-
bar, it Is feared that RAohId, nephew and
successor of Tippoo Tib, at Stanley Falls,
has Joined in the insurreotionary movement
ard declared his hostility to the whites,
with whom he has pretended to be on terms
Of friendship.
RICHAD IN REVOLT.
1t is also understood that Riohad has un-
furled the standard OF rebellion aud called
upon his own followers and other chiefs,
roth native and Arab, TO join against the
white men and assist in restoring Arab su-
premacy. A conflict has taken place aud
1t is known that number of whites were
killed and that the Arabs are not In full
control OF the Congo at Stanley Falls. The
followers OF Riohad are armed for the NEST
part with improved European rifles. What
has become Of the European resident who
represents the authority OF the Congo Free
state at Stanley Falls is not known. but it is
feared that he has persisted.
FEARS FOR TWO EXPEDITIONS.
The greatest anxiety is felt for the safety
OF the expeditions under Capt. jacques and
Capt. Joubert, which were seut out TO sup
press the slave trade. IL is said that the in
surgent Arabs have sworn to exterminate
both OF these expeditions as a lesson to the
whites not TO interfere with the traffic. It
Is known that at the latsst accounts a large
force OF Arabs had gone in search Of Jou-
bert News from the seat Of the insurreo-
ton is OF the most meager kind, but is suf-
hcient to cause the gravsst anxiety to be
felt, not only for the anti-slavery expedi-
tions mentioned, but also for the Catholic
and Protestant missions.