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ARE CHARGED AGAINST THE GOV
ERNOR OF THE GERMAN
CAMEROONS.
NEW COLONIAL SCANDAL.
EVIDENCE so STRONG THAT TT
WILL NECEssITATE AN nEEI-
CIAL INQUIRY.
MOST HORRIBLE OF ATROCITIES
Credited to Herr Won Puttkamer
Against Whom the Latest
Charges are Made.

BERLIN. July 18.-Another colonial
scandal Is on the point of exploding.
Herr Won Puttkamer, governor of the
German Cameroons, is accused of hav-
ing committed many acts of inhuman-
ity and cruelty, similar to those al
legged against Whelan and Liest, and
for which these officials were ordered
dismissed from the colonial service
Won Puttkamers accusers are Won
Stettin, late vice governor under Won
Puttkamer, and Goezebriecht, the
same British journalist who exposed
the abuse in the Cameroons under
Whelan and Liest. A large number of
affidayits of eye witnesses and vic
Tins of Won Puttkamer's brutality
with the strongest of corroborative ev-
idence, are now in possession of Ger
man paper and will soon be published
The evidence is SO strong that 1t will
be impossible to AVOID an official in
vestigation. Won Puttkamer, who was
appointed to his office only eleven
months ago. is accused of having COM
mitted most horrible atrocities on both
male and female colonists, and of
financial speculations of shady char
acter.
Rumors Of all this have been current
in colonial circles for some time Ad-
ditional evidence against the governor
is in the hands of two members of
the Left, and it will be laid before the
feichstag when it ASSEMBLIES in the
form Of an Interpolation of the gov
eminent
A cavalry captain named Baron Won
Ehrardte, and First Lieutenant Won
Kamptz, of the garrison of Dusseldorf,
have been dismissed from the army
because they refused to accept a chal-
lenge to fight a duel with pistols which
was sent to them by a notorious scoun-
drel ~
Empress Augusta and six of the i'm
pertal princes may be seen daily prac-
tieing bicycle riding in the park. Tt
is new sport for the empress, but,
under tuition of her two eldest sons.
both of whom are expert bieyclists
and on machine especially built for
her. under the emperor's direction, she
is making rapid progress as
Mrs. Evans, the wife of Can't. r. K.
Evans, the military aattache of the
United States legation, made a bicycle
trip to Herringsdorf and back, a dis
tanee of 400 miles, this week. The
United States ambassador, Edwin Fl
Uhl, and his family made trip to the
seashere for few days this week.
During the intensely hot weather of.
the past week, the maneuvers, drills
and marches of the army in various
parts of Germany We're attended with
many fatal cases of sunstroke Af
Mayence, the long distance march OF
the 37th and S8th regiments was
marked by forty-eight cases of SUM
stroke pf which 16 were Immediately
fatal: In the maneuvers at Caputh.
thirteen soldiers fell dead Similar
cases are reported from South Ger.
many. o~ m a4-4
The Reichsanzeiger publishes a state
ment of the fiscal operations of the
government for the year 1886, show
ing an excess, in the ordinary revenues
of the empire, amounting to II, 227, 1897.
of which sum 1,355, 796 marks will be-
used to. cover increased expenditures
and 13,e00, 900 marks applied to reduc-
ing the imperial debt. eGi
contagious disease Of the eyes. the
origin and characteristics of which are
puzzling the physicians, is spreading in
necessary to close the schools and a
number of other schools have been
closed throughout the province The
Victims OF this disease are rendered
totally blind.
Herr Richter, the German. commits
siener to Paris exposition of 1890, was
the first of the commissioners on the
spot, and met with a cordial reception
from Director Picard and other officials
of the exposition. Herr Richter re-
ports that, the space allowed Germany.
while not quite as much as was occ1,
pied by that country at the Columbian
exposition In Chicago in 1893. is more
than has been given to any other for
eign nation. The emperor and the Ger
man government intend to make the
exhibit intrinsically more valuable
than that at the Chicago exposition.
The appropriation for the Paris exhi-
bition is much larger than that made
for Chicago, which makes the proposed
Improvement possible. Herr. Richter's
report of his preliminary visit will be
rendered to the emperor next week.
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