The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-31
USE HEAVY WHIPS
TO FL0G NATIVES
Corporal Punishment Used With
Freedom on the Shores of
Victoria Nyanza.
HOW GERMANS LOST UGANDA
Bad Bargain Made by Bismarck.
Native Soldiers Trained
by Germans.
Copyright, 1905. by Frank G. Car
penter.)


Can the African native be controlled
This is live question out here on
the shores of Victoria Nyanza The
British laws are strict In regard to
unauthorized by the courts. hogs a
black man Is liable to fine and i'm
prisonment. It is now only few
months, since three negroes who had "a.
insulted white women were publicly
tiogged by Captain Grogan. the head o
the Colonists Association, In front OF
the courthouse at Nairobi. This Great
ed an outcry in England. and Grogan
ished by mild imprisonment
In both British East Africa and
Uganda f1ogging is one Of the SEN
criminal TO be whipped is laid face
downward upon the ground. His
clothes are taken off and one man
sits on the small OF the back and an
done on the fshy parts between to
prevent permanently injuring the man.
In German East Africa I am told
that any white man has the right to
teen lashes. but that II more punish
ment than this Is demanded the case
must be brought before the police On
the western shores OF Lake Victoria
every officer and soldier carries his
hippopotamus- hide whip with him. The
whip Is called the kabuko. 1t is a
strip OF the thick skin of the hippo
down at The sides to the diameter of
ones finger and made tapering at one
end.
Such whip is terrible weapon. It
q knife. 1ttrequires only light blow
to draw blood, and the expert logger
brings down the kabuko on the bare
flesh with nspecultar twist, which saws
II f0 ShraHa Tha pafiVaS W oaf
down on their knees and beg for mer-
cy II one even shakes a whip at them.
The Case of DIR. Karl Peters.
Most OF the German officials claim
that It is impossible to keep the ma
tiyes Il In r, subjugation except By. the
karl Peters, who was dismissed from
his position as imperial commissioner
of the district about Kilimanjaro on
account Of his brutality some time ago,
suit which Dr. Peters instituted some
months ago against the Meunchener
Post. That paper had called Peters q
and had published the story Of his i
tloggng three female servants and tho
hanging Of others. In the trial which
followed several German officials who
had served in East Africa testified that
togging. One of the witnesses was
General Llebert q former governor
or German East Africa, and others
We're Herr kuhnert, a well-known an
lmal painter. who had recently been
here. and Father Acker, OF the African
Mission, General Liebert said that 1t
was absolutely necessary to be severe
with the natives and that he regret
ted the mldness Of the present off,
cials. Herr Kuhnert averred that 1t
was impossible to treat them with
too much severity. He said he had
seen one of the negresses when she
was hogged by DR.. Peters and the pun
tshmext did not seem cruel TO him
Father Acker said that one could not
govern the natives without logging,
and that ne himself had often caused
mon and women to be whipped,
During this trial Herr Bebel, the So
cialistic member OF Relchstag. was call
ed In. Flo said that he had evidence
that Peters had caused negro to ha
shot down merely because he had
crossed MS path, and that when he
Was on the Emin Pasha expedition he
had shot numerous natives and burned
their Villages. He cited one OF Karl
Peters's hooks showing how he had
punished a native servant. The SER
want had stolen a chicken which Pc
ters had ordered to he served for his
dinner, DR., Peters flrst gave, the man
an emetic to get back the chicken and
then logged him.
v During my trip about Victoria Nyan-'