The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31

eo without fogging?
 O This Is a live question out here
 on the shores of Victoria Nyanza The 1 British laws are strict in regard to this | matter, and the white man who, unau-
 thorized by the courts, fogs black man
 Is liable to fine and Imprisonment. It is
 now only few months since three ne-
 groes who had insulted white women
 were publicly fogged by Captain Grogan, the head of the Colonists' association, in
 front of the courthouse at Nairobi. This
 created an outcry in England, and Gro-
 gan and those who helped him were pun
 ished by mild Imprisonment.
 In both British East Africa and Ugan- | da fogging Is one of the sentences of the courts. In Uganda the criminal to be
 whipped is laid face downward upon the 1 ground. His clothes are taken off and l one man sits on the small of the back 1 and another on the thighs, the fiogging l being done on the feshy parts between to
 prevent permanently in5uring the man. l In German East Africa I am told that any white man has the right to give any
 negro who insults him fifteen lashes, but
 that if more punishment than this Is de-
 handed the case must be brought before | the police. On the western shores of l Lake Victoria and down here at Mwanza 1 I find thatNevery officer and soldier car
 ries his hippopotamus hide whip with him. The whip is called the kabuko. It
 is strip of the thick skin of the hippo 1 potamus about a yard long, trimmed
 down at the sides to the diameter of
 one's finger and made tapering at one 1 end.
 l Such whip is terrible weapon. It 1 is heavy and flexible and will cut like
 knife. It requires only a light blow to
 draw blood, and the expert fogger brings l down the kabuko on the bare flesh With l peculiar twist, which saws 1t to shreds. 1 The natives will get down on their knees
 and beg for mercy if one even shakes a
 whip at them.
 The Case of pr. Karl Peters.
 Most of the German officials claims that ] 1t is impossible to keep the natives in sub
 jugation except by the whip. This was
 the opinion of Dr. Karl Peters, who was
 dismissed from his position as imperial
 commissioner of the district about Xiii
 manjaro on account of his brutality some | time ago. The case was brought up by
 libel suit which Dr. Peters instituted | some months ago against the Meunchener I Post. That paper had called Peters a 1 hangman, a murderer and coward, and | had published the story of his fiogging | three female servants and the hanging Of others. In the trial which followed sev- ] eral German officials who had served in East Africa testified that the natives l could not be. ruled without hogging. One | of the witnesses was General Liebert, | former governor of German East Africa, | and others were Herr Kuhmert, a well known animal painter who had recently
 been here, and Father Acker of the Afrt 1 can Mission. General Liebert said that
 1t was absolutely necessary to be severe
 with the natives and that he regretted | the mildness of the present officials. Herr
 Kuhnert averred that it was impossible l to treat them with too much severity. He l said he had seen one of the negresses
 when she was logged by Dr. Peters and
 the punishment did not seem cruel to him i Father Acker said that one could not
 govern the natives without fogging, and I that he himself had often caused men and l women to be whipped.
 | During this trial Herr Rebel, the so- l cialstic member of the reichstag, was
 called in. He said that he had evidence that Peters had caused negro to be shot down merely because he had crossed his patch, and that when he was on the Emin Pasha expedition he had shot nu- mcrous natives and burned their villages He cited one of Karl Peters books show ing how he had punished a native serv dHt. lHe 6erVdnt Hdu SlOleH d cHIchen which Peters had ordered to be served for his dinner. Dr. Peters first gave the man an emetic to get back the chicken and then fiogged him.
 During my trip about Victoria Nyanza l have been accompanied by the famous missionary, Archdeacon Walker, who was in Uganda at the time Peters passed through here. He tells me that the learned German doctor boasted to him 1 L. n- IL. .,l<Itz | in the country and that he evidently
 thought nothing of shooting a native down in cold blood
 How Germans Failed to Acquire Uganda.
 It was from Archdeacon Walker that learned how near the Germans came to getting possession of the rich province of Uganda and thereby the control of the whole of Lake Victoria. Whether this
 was attempted by Prince Bismarck and the German government I do not know, but the movement was engineered by this
 same Dr. Karl Peters. The incident oc-
 cured about 1890, when the relations be- tween King Mwanga and the British gov ernment were exceedingly strained. Mwanga. who was then King of Uganda,
 had said that if the English would fur nish troops to support him in his trou-
 bles with his subjects he was ready to make a treaty with them and thereby l bring his country under their protection. l Archdeacon Walker wrote a letter to this
 effect for the king, and sent it to Mir. l Jackson, the commissioner of British 1 East Africa. The man who took the let 1 ter was captured on the esway and 1t fell l into the hands of pr. Karl Peters, who
 was then travelling through the country l as a soldier of fortune and diplomat l combined. As the story goes. Dr. Pe- ters tore the letter up and then by forced marches reached Uganda before its loss became known. In consequence of the delay he was able to make treaties with King Mwanga whereby Uganda should come under the protection of the Ger mans.
 In the meantime, however the officials of Germany and England had come to-
 gether and had held a conference over
 African matters during which they made
 an agreement as to the boundary be-
 tween the German and the English pos
 sessions. By this agreement all of the
 country lying south of a line which goes
 about midway through Lake Victoria was
 given to the Kaiser and all north of that
 to Queen Victoria, then reigning. the
 British ceding to the Germans the little
 Island of Heigoland as a consideration therefor. The Germans, as I understand
 1t, had as yet received no news of what
 Peters had done in Uganda, and when tt did become known this treaty made his
 work of no avail.
 Blsmarck's Bad Bargain.
 Heligoland, the country which they thus got In exchange for one of the best