The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1918-09-20
Means Brutal Treatment
Of Black Subjects
HUN TREATIES WITH CHIEFS
ARE SCRAPS OF PAPER"
Ruthless Cruelty Decinates Three
Tnbes--Woaen Are Mail
treated = "Extermination
Order" Issued.

LONDON, September IL A report
containing evidences OF the brutal meth
ods employed by Germany in tile admin
istration OF her colonies in Africa, msds
public today by Edmond II. L. Georges.
Acting Secretary Of the Interior, u, "a
OF South Africa, constitutes the br,tish
Governments reply 10 DIR. w. Soif.
the German Secretary VI STATE for ths
Colonies. that siernsny wouid demand
the return vi her COLONIES at the peace
con ference.
The report 10 one Of the most s-nss
bonal ever issued in connection with
Germen colonial methods and 10 con
sldered an indictment of German fitn-ss
to raie the black natives OF Air ca. Til.
eveidenc-s upon which the report 70 based
ere taken from official Il rman documents
at Windhoek, from sworn Statements bx
native chiefs and 10y Europeans familiar
with the country and from the writing.
of Governor Leutwein, who hid ofice
from 1894 70 1876: Dr. Paul Rohrbsck
DIR. Kari Dove and others.
REFUrE HUN REPORT.
Altogether the report refutes-in detail
Dr. Soifs recent claim that ''Germany's
Pre-wsr humane trestInent OF the native
Faces wcD for her the moral right 20 be
. gre At colonial Power" la view of the
cis'n, the following statement by Asti4s
Secretary Georges 10 interesting:
The native opinion here 10 unani-
nously against any idea Of their ever he
ing handed back 10 the tender mercies OF
Germany Any suggestion of the pos-
ability OF an at Of this kind on the part
of Great Britain produces the utmost
CONSERVATION"
Tie report shows that the 6rst % years
oil German rule in Southwest Africa wss
an unbroken record of official bad faith,
private oppression, cruelty, barbarities
and robberles, culminsting in the Herero
and Hottentot ret<liicns. During the
brit IL years there was no Law for the
natives. such protection as the Law
eventually provides indicated considers
tons of humanity. but the order 10 ex
ploit the natives as laborers remain "A
When the Germans first arrived, saw
the report, they entered into arrange
ments with the native chiefs, bus thes~
became scraps of paper and the natives
were frsndnlentlv deprived of their best
land. Traders and settlers robbed them
Cf their cattle, which Was their onl,
wealth, and the law later prevented the
natives from having possession Of large
herds Of stock.
TREATED LIKE SLAVES.
The NATIVES we're thus driven TO work
ct ridiculously Inadequate wages and Of
ten were never pail. They were treated
like slaves aud their women folk wer
babituslly nsltrested by the Germans.
Who took them into forced concub are
these were -ome OF the things .hich
gosrdrd tire natives into rebellion which
we're SUPPRESSED by ruibl-ss cruelty re
sUitiDg practically IN the extermlnstios
81 tie three trites involved The "a. re
rOs we're reincrd from S1tsD To Ij.Iuv.
the HOttentOts from 2U,UD 10 $50 and
the Berg Dsmsrss firm 3O,go Co I2,s -
lhus 50 pr cent Of the Herero peopl.
disappeared, and more than half Of ti.
Hottrntots aud Berg Dsmsrss shares tb.
same fstr. How Il wss done Wa TO su
psr-ede the lenient Governor L .utwein
by the notorious Governor Troths. fres'
from Germany ~ Ez,t Africa, where he
snppressed khe Arab rebellion by whole
sale ms-sscre. Governor Troths issued
an determination order" the terms Of
which provided that no Herero man.
woman, child or bate vss % rscsiv~
mercy or quarter.
Kill every one Of them: take no pris-
oDers," he said in these oId-rs. Evidrnce
that tie order Vas only 10 faithfully
carried out - recyrded in . story Of Gov.
1rOths's fOrmer groom. who described
he once Wa ordered 10 Kill young Here
TO ~Omsn. lie refused in disgust, ~ters-
upon . German soldier showed him how
10 do q, aud then he held the drippias
bsyonet in his lace.
No PRISONERS SPARED.
Another r,lisble ~Itnrs-. ~ho ~ss urth
Governor Troths for two year-. tr-t bed
that bs knew u no instance of prispners
b<,ns spsrsd. Even alter the rebellion
surviving Dstivs- Jared bat lIssle b<sssr.
One Of the mot significant doeunsns
IN The report 70 . secret ,ircDl T bJ Gov
srnor Hesn In 1872, and tddrssSsd 70