The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-01
State Of Montana.

be no peace in Africa until the tribes
have been completely subjugated, II
not destroyed.
In that section known as the Soudan
the suffering of natives and of Euro
peans have been well-nigh alike. The
Soudanese tribes are a mongrel race.
1t is said to be difficult to know which
blood predominates-the African or
Arabian. They are religious fanatics.
There is no madden fighter than your
religious fanatic. These Soudanese be-
heve with a stronger belief than any
Christian has in his creed, that when
they die in battle for the mahdi the
gates of heaven swing open to them,
and that they enter upon perpetual
bliss and power and plenty to eat and
drink forever. This belief is so strong
that no missionary work under the sun
will destroy IL. Ever since the slaugh-
ter at Khartoum the power of the NAH
di has been increasing, and. of course,
fanaticism is more rampant than ever.
The British expedition now in that Sec
ton. with all of the modern implements
of war, will have many a severe con-
test, even with constantly increasing
force, before making Roadway against
the Soudanese, every man and woman
of which race is a fighter to the death,
no quarter given or taken.
Italy is making slow Roadway, IL any
at all. in Abyssinia. King Menelek has
killed 1000 of the troops sent out by
King Humbert, and that the situation
is desperate one is proved by the fact
that II but recently overthrow the min
istry of the Italian government. The
followers of Menelek, like those of the
mahdi, are fanatics. Menelek claims to
be a Christian, in his way but 1t seems
to be of a type that will not stand any
A..Il Il. l.
parent right on his side which recently
created a sort of sympathetic wave
all over the world, Great Britain ex-
cepted, for President Kruger of the
Transvaal Menelek has his own coun-
try and is not seeking any other In
fact, he does not ask to keep all of his
own. He is willing to leave a great
colony along the Red sea to the Ital-
ians, but the latter seemed to be pos
sessed of the same spirit as that which
makes Dickens oliver Twist oftener
quoted than almost any other charac-
ter. Menelek is massing his followers,
so as to dispute every inch of invasion.
The Belgian government, small and
Insignificant by comparison, has a col
ony in the Congo Free State which has
conceived the notion of getting a slice
off Soudan, and to accomplish this, or
to attempt 1t, an expedition is now
headed from Congo to the Soudan.
The Dutch and English colonies in
Cape Colony, the Orange Free State
and Transvaal, people who are civil
lied and living in a manner that would
be recognized by any civilized govern
ment, are standing together on the
same principle and preparing to dis
pute encroachment, as the followers of
Kruger disputed the advance of JAM
eson. Watching Englands movements
in these colonies is Germany, and the
beers have already been assured by
German officers of their assistance
The latest uprising reported in the
Dark Continent Is that of the Mata-
beles. Only a few months ago the En-
glish government proclaimed that 1t
had subdued that people and that its
king, Lobengula-whose crown was an
old silk hat, and whose throne was a
wooden box with an English trade
mark on IL, and who lived in an in
closure with his cattle and poultry
had been broken of his rule and so
humbled that he was no more than an
outcast. Buluwayo once more looms up
on the war map.
The French have succeeded in con-
quering a strip of country off the east
coast of Africa, but at such a sacrifice
that there is little to gloat over and not
much prospect that the victory will be
permanent.
The English hold Prempeh, king of
Ashantee, a prisoner, but Ashantee is
not conquered and the outcome is a
problem. The French occupy Timbuc-
too, but no one can foretell what dark
and bloody deeds may follow there.
The sultan of Morocco is Staying and
butchering his own subjects And so
on the story runs. There is not a ray
of peace anywhere in that section
known as the Dark Continent, and the
world waits, with fear, some fresh hor-
ror liable to occur at any hour. The
millennium seems to have been shelved
indefinitely, in the East. at least.