Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-03
DISP0SSESS NECR0S.
NOW 70 BE EUROPEAN
GlRNhN COLONY N AFRICA
WANTS 70 DRIVE or Tnl
NATIVE SONS.
WHIPPING POST EMPLOYED
Natives Are \rrc,tcd for Small Of
lenses and Subjected to Pun
iShmcnt~ of ancient Times.

BERLIN, May . The secretary for
IN" colonies has decided to send out
d special COMMISSION to Investigate
conditions at Duola, the seaport Of
tho German colony Of Eamerun i'm
Africa.
a storm Of protest has arisen i'm
Germany against the alleged high
handed proceedings Of the colonial
authorities of Kamerun, who wish T.
dispossess the entire negro population
Of Duald In order To establish there
a purely European quartz. with SAM
tntiou and other modern improve
mcnts. IT is claimed that this cau-
not be done SO long as the natives
with their wrctchcd huts and other in
sanitary modes Of life occupy a con-
siderable part of the ground needed
for the white settlement
The Reichstag which has bccp
asked to appropriate 5000 to
compensate the natives docs not OBJ
iect in principle to dispossessiou %
the negroes, but members Of the bud
get committee protest strongly against
the manner in which dispossesslou
heretofore has been carried out. The
negroes have declared that the col
onial authorities gave them but a pit
lance Of what their lots are worth
and that the new site on which they
were compelled to settle was n
plague spot compared to their old
homes.
In Difference to the public demand
for "a just and humane treatment OF
the natives, the secretary of the cot.
ouies finally decided to have an cX-
haustivc report made to him upon
the whole matter. The commission
which he appointed Will proceed soon
to kamcrun to hear the negro side
Of the controversy as well as that of
the local authorities. The friends OF
gentle and humane methods i'm the
treatment OF the natives are also
pleased with the report hat Baron
Won Rechenberg, formerly governor
of German East Africa, has been nom
mated for the Rcichstag in a district
whore ne Is sure to be elected. His
administration i'm East Africa was
marked by Jealous efforts 10 protect
the natives from an highhaudc Z
methods on the part of the German
planters. General Won Liohort. also
"a former governor of East Africa, and
"a leading exponent Of stalwart poll
cics in the colonies, has just lost his
seat i'm the Eoichstag, having failed
of reelection after having been UNI
seated because of Irregularities.
Sarcastic comment from the Liberal
press has followed the official pub
. location Of "a new order Of the imperial
chancellor establishing corporal pun
ishmcuts for the native troops Of the
colonies. The new regulations pro-
vide that offenders sentenced to i'm
@prisonment for more than six weeks
shall be fettered and hat corporal
punishment up TO twice 25 lashes may
be inflicted. Any commissioned Of
ficer is empowered to order the 30
/ lasheS, and the highest uou-commis-
stoned officer may order % lashcs.
Flogging Is also PERMITTED in addition
10 arrest.
In cases OF close arrest the pris-
oner is to be bound for two hours
a day with his back against a wall
or tree lin such manner that he can
neither sit nor lie At the same
time. this punishment is not to in
clude measures which could make
the punishment appear cruel"
The native soldier has no appeal
from a sentence to be dashed.
The regulations are introduced with
the statement that the punishment
provided are necessary in view If the
fact that the black soldiers do not
possess "a developed soldierly honor
and joy I'm obedience"