Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
DR., STUEBEL EXPLAINS
Cause Of Hereros' Uprising
in Africa.
VOTE IN REICHSTAG
FOR CREDITS TO SEND REIN.
FoRCEMENTS.
Opposition, Including the Socialists,
Gives Way to the Proposed
Government Plans.
VOTE IN REICHSTAG

BERLIN. January 19-The bills authOris.
ing supplementary credits OF sos, 300 for
German Southwest Africa. made necessary
by the dispatch Of reinforcements of troops
to southwest Africa. owing to the revolt OF
the Hereros tribesmen. passed their first
and second readings In the reichstag to-
day.
DR.. Stuebel. director Of the colonial de-
partment Of the foreign Office. In the reich
stag today made full exposure OF the
governments information about the He
reros' rising. He said the rising Of the
Bondelzwarts tribesmen had unQuestion-
ably been ended between January and
January 10, but at the same time came the
first news of the movement in central
southwest Africa. A telegram arrived jan
uary IL from Wndhoek, saying that Okla
handja had been occupied by natives and
that telegraphic connection with Windhoek
and Swakopmund was cut. The govern.
ment Immediately dispatched a relief col
umn by railroad from Swakopmund, but II
is not known how far 1t got. The relief OF
Otyimbingue, a mission station south OF
Windhoek, which was also occupied by ma.
tives, was attempted from karibib, ana
forces had Just been sent to protect the
railroad station at Karibib, which had been
placed in a defensive position. One Ger
man post in the northern portion OF the
Herero territory was also besieged. I'm. Inc
shop at Johann Albrechtshoehe winch
they had plundered.
Situation Extremely Grave.
DR.. stuebel added that he regarded the
situation az being extremely grave. The
acting governor of German Southwest Al
RIGA was demanding a battalion of field ar
tiliery. The territory involved in the rising
embraced population of 1.542 whites Inc
fundamental cause of the revolt was the in
ability of the natives to forget their FORMER
freedom. The Germans had Deeh acS u9s
toned to regard the Hereros as allies
against the Witboys. The Hereros re-
manned loyal in 1886. when the hrst rising
was suppressed .,.s
"the Hereros remained enemies of political
and social order" which the Germans were
striving to introduce. Moreover, win the
railroad came additional farmers ana tne
dispossession of the natives, through inc
purchase of land. The government had
introduced a short repurchase term foI
land bought of natives; but the interests Oh
the settlers and natives condicted In many
respects. Apparently the present rising
had been planned long ago, and had been
kept secret. 1t was significant continued
DIR. Stuebel. that numerous iaborers en-
ployed in the Transvaal mines, on learning
of the Bondelzwarts' rising, returned TO
participate in It, The farmers and mis-
sionarfes were completely surprised. The
risings proved the necessity for disarming
the ma tveS.
Support From Center Party.
Dr. SPAIN, a member Of the center party,
said he thought 1t safe to pledge the whole
house to support the government, although
1t was true, as the F'rankfurter Zeitung had
explained, that the rising was due to other
causes than the government had referred
to, particularly to the severity with which
traders had enforced the payment of debts
contracted by the natives. However, DR..
SPAIN added, the present moment was not
suited for such discussion.
Herr Bebel, the socialist leader, said he
was not opposed to speedy action. He ex-
planned that similar risings had character
lied COLOMBIA ton as practiced by the civil
lied nations throughout the world, and
quoted from letter from southwest Africa
saying that II the Hereros began a struggle
it would be in desperation. Herr Bebel
added that he believed the Hereros had
sufficient reasons for desperation. Mis-
sionary reports complained of the further
ance of immortality and drunkenness by the
settlers, and an additional cause for des-
peration was the freedom with which bodily
chastisement was practised.
Pending the arrival of more exact fnfor-
nation the socialists would abstain from
voting, without prejudice to their general
opposition to the colonial policy.
The leaders of other parties briefly de-
clared their readiness to support the sup
Elementary estimates, reserving their criti-
cism for a more seemly occasion.