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cumstances and at all points in Africa France
knew how to protect herself and to make her
self respected.
M. Ribot, in rep ", said he had indicated
to the English Government that he should
hold it responsible for the acts of a company
which it had installed, and which was on its
own responsibility, and that if cruelty had
been lone it must repair it and repudiate it
and wash its hands of deeds which were a
shame to civilization.
The Berliner TogeblaH publishes the fol-
lowing letter, dated Zanzibar, May 7, from its
special correspondent in East Africa;-"The
news from Uganda is not only lamentable,
but almost Incredible. The telegraph will
already have informed you of the massacre Of
the Uganda Catholics by the Protestant party
under Captains Lugard and Williams, of the
British Imperial East Africa Company. On
January 80 Father Superior Guillermain,
Fathers Levesque, Moullec (who was at the
time seriously ilD, Gaudibert-by the by,
himself an English subject-and Moussin,
and brotherA mans, all belonging to the Catho-
lie Mission of the Algerian Brothers at Ruba-
ga, Uganda, were captured by Captain Will
liams, an officer under Captain Lugard's COM
mand, and imprisoned at the Fort of Kampa-
la, As minutes distance from the capital,
Ruba. The prisoners were treated with every
indignity, even their head coverings being
taken away from them under the Scorching
sunshine They had withdrawn with M'wan-
ga, the Catholic King of Uganda, to the small
island Of Bulingujeyo, where they were at
tackled with rifles, and q Maxim gun, al
though they themselves never fred a shot"
The Berlinsr Tdgeblatt omments as fol-
lows upon these reports, and it's tone, unfor-
tunately, represents only too accurately the
popular feeling
1t is evident that religious strife has been
carefully fomented in order to carry out a
long planned political coup for eliminating
from Uganda every non-English element. The
british mlssionai les have again shown, what
scarcely needed fresh proof-that they are the
apostles, not Of the Gospel, but of English
political interests. If, on the one hand, re-
cent events from Uganda constitute a cruelty
sarcastic illustration of missionary enterprise
IN general and of that of England in particular
it has, OH the other, brought once more into
relief the reckless, brutal d%eterminatio on with
which the English pursue their political pur-
poses. Religion, humanity, the repression of
the slave trade are mere empty words to cloak
their ambitious designs"
In connection with the religious feuds in
Uganda the K6lnische Volkszietunq publishes
q letter dated February 10, from the German
station Bukoba, on Lake Victoria. which pur-
ports to come from the pen Of Mgr. Hirth,
Vicar Apostolic in Uganda. to the following
efeot:-"Captain Lugard came back in Jan
uary from Unyoro, where he had met Emjn
Pasha's old Turkish troops who were on the
way to Bukoba in accordance with Emin's di
%rections. The fight in Uganda broke out on
January "a. The Professionals were the agrees
ors, and the Catholics, who returned the fire of
their rival, were only defeated through want
of ammunition
With reference to the letter Of Bishop
Hirth, complaining Of the bad treatment of the
Roman Catholic missionaries and natives in
Uganda, the British East Africa Company in
an interview with a representative of Reuters
Agency, stated thatthey were awaiting informa.
ton from Captain Lugard, butin the meantime
they could say that their officers were instruct
ed to maintain strict neutrality between the
two religious parties in Uganda. The Catho-
lie missionaries, however, had been most hostile
to the Company and British interests in the
country, and the duty of their officers, in case
of disturbances breaking out between the ri.
val parties, would be to punish the first dis
turbers of the peace. The Company point out
that several Of the stories sent home by Bishop
Hirth have proved false and exaggerated.
The Roman Catholics are three times as nu.
merous as the protestants in Uganda, and
consequently the latter are not likely to be
the aggressive party.