The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-21
LUMBER MILLS CLOSE.
(By Associated Press.)
Charleston, w. Va, Oct. 21.-B
He was stabbed from behind by a

spear.
early last June, the English oc-
cupied Ukerewe Island, where / am
writing this, and in July they took
Muawza, the seat of the provincial
commissioner of this province, in
which all our stations on the German
side are located. When the natives
heard Of this, they lost fear of the
German officials and even openly dis
obeyed orders, and it got worse when
all the officials as well as military left
Ikidzu, going south. Uproar started
Immediately by the natives in Ikidzu,
killing the native police and watch
men left to guard the station. They
robbed the government property, and
it was reported to us that the Chris
tians who had been left behind by DR..
Vasenius to watch mission property
had been driven away, some killed
and their huts burned. l tried to send
messengers to them with words of
courage and instruction, but all re-
turned with the letters because of the
war raging everywhere. The uproM
spread quickly from tribe to tribe,
every day bringing new and startling
reports.
my family and I were the only Eu-
ropeans left in the district as far,
south as the river Mbalageti, and we
had been warned by the government
officials that an uproar was to be ex-.
pected; also in the last word we heard (
from any of our missionaries Mr.. {
Ohme wrote upon going south to meet
his company that he feared an upris- 1
ing, but that he did not know of any {
safe place where he could advise us to {
60. We could not very we'll, with !
fifteen months old baby, run around /
IN the unknown with the soldiers, and
whereas we expected that the English j
5ery soon would show up, we decided S
20 wait on our station until we should O
yet some evident sign that we ought I
o leave. 1
I'VE did what we could to protect t
ourselves, put in night watches, and h
or the rest committed ourselves to i
,od's protection. Finally the uproar c
pread to Busegwe also. A chief and a
is subchief with women and children :
ad fled from Niagangi with their 15O |
cad Of cattle, but Busegwe natives d
urrounded them and robbed them of s
II the 150 cattle and killed one wo- I
IAN and one child. By this time the /
xcitement was started, the natives "
ainted themselves for war, and wore b
pears, swords, bows and poisoned ar u
ows. They rushed in crowds here
nd there, and came finally bowling e
nd yelling on the mission land to- n,
ards our house. We saw that the ot
me had come to leave, so we had ev- Il
rything made ready for the fight \
everal chiefs who were robbed of all II
leir property by the invading natives ,l
ame to us when the natives sought II
kill them. They had before ear 3
estly besought us to ask the Eng il
sh to come to quiet the uproar, but |;
le British force had only gotten one n
our three notes and were very busy VI
sewhere and could not come, but ad- 70
sed us to come to them. ia
$50 off we started At every kraal .
e came to we heard of new troubles. fr
or eight days we remained behind
land in uproar and we were very Ia
red from nervous strain and loss of ",
eep. Friday evening we arrived at sp
izaki, one Of our missions Here the 1a