Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-30
NATIVE ATROCITIES
IN WEST AFRICA.
a Horrible as to Make Those of
The American Indians Seem
Tame
No MERCY FOR THEIR VICTIMS.
Prisoners Eyes Poked Ont and Frag'
m.uts Of Their Flesh Nailed to the
Walls Of Dwellings.
I,oclal Correspondence.

- ERIIN, April ls.--"Two armies OF
demons" is the way German mis-
II sionary impartially characterizes
~ The black and white forces now en-
sased in a life and death struggle In
German southwest Africa. The little
war which Germany is waging against
,he rebelious Hereros has been so COM
pletely overshadowed by the big war
between Russia and Japan that II has
received scant attention from the press,
hut FOR blood-curdling atrocities on both
SIDES II would be hard to find a parsl-
nj TO II in the annals Of modern con-
dlrts even where savages are concern
3D.
II is In private letters, many OF them
from eyewltnesses of the scenes they
describe, extracts from which have
been printed here, that the horrible
character Of the conflict Is revealed. At
the outbreak OF the rebellion the ne
roes surprised and massacred hun
dreds OF the defenseless colonists and
practised such terrible cruelties on men,
women and children alike that the
worst deeds Of North American Indians
appear tame BY comparison.
ATRoClous TORTURE.
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STORIES MOST SHOCKING.
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IA "'J ,,,s, anu ieei'hs sure tnat they
"O,A hneu MN stripped MS
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dsvcuroS wy hVush. 10 oe
eonsc,orsn W. ,"eNa's; but ne recovered
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N ",ao, a"u uhe pi,ter coid, managed
tbe nsa,.s, 20. n,Iles 10 "ihuhooN'
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nm. oo,oa, wi u'aoh protners, writes
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Mia hsos'e Iney hre no' men put
,hs'o,roi,,s Worus iai. me 10 desclrpe
copntrvrnn r' 'ney preCuSeo on our own
chilsrnn 'VI, On nelpIess women ana
hands In this district We're tortured to
,hsIr or anu nslr bodies were mutilatod,
vomer o "Vils GU, on WIN axes me
wye 'ea'eu SUI more cruelty
WHAT WIFE SAW.
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90 dsaVh "anse Jaw her husband done
Natch NV was lhen compelled TO
ersd r KIT iour-year.old enid butch
door, iue hereros placed the child In
mil GoE ana slammed the heavy door
bdr wy u,e was crushed OUT or the
eo,,sn,.' ,uulu relale hundreds OF cases
ntSshL nurrlDie' IN the immediate
,Ssnuorhood OF Okahandja alone ll3
eran, I,a WHY tortured to ueatn, God
may fall into our hands There Viii he
"',r re,S,elge then,
tcr,s s' .yg 20 authentic German re-
st,sS 'uGl grim refengl Is being cS-
en,s ,w',Henever the opportunity oc'
MEN, 'otWaerts declares that the
frs no a. auopted ny the German troop.
tbs, liter man those Of Tie liereros;
chod WY snoot down men, women and
,n.D lndlscrlminately and after the
'1e''u'n's dlspatoh tho wounded,
no MERCY SHOWN
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,on 'nis statement is no eSagsera-
Baunsart' yovn,esr .pw ni,h ' tSe coz pe
s man troops who openly rejolces In the
., Oh determination they are Waglng