The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-10

his body was a mass of wounds and sores.
 (b) The second was put in the iron hat" A band of iron was pass ed round his head, and frightened by means of a vice-ike screw, so as to press more especially on his temples. The agony is unspeakable.
 Another dodge is to tie a string to the middle finger, pass it back under and round the forearm, and tighten till the man confesses.
 With 8 system such as this the police force can usually supply criminal to meet every case; and can also wipe out all private grudges they may have against their fellow subjects.
 In fact, the underlings are as bad as their masters; and no one dare complain. Revenge is, in my ex- perience, always taken on those who venture to appeal to the German.
 Chain-Gang Torture.
 Again, the punishment of the chain-gang is q most serious cruelty.
 Eight men, or thereabouts, are chained by the neck to one very heavy chain. They are not Unchain- ed at all till their sentence is finish ed. Day and night, at all times and in all circumstances, the eight men live and move as one, while they are entirely at the mercy of the gaolers, who use on then freely sjamboks, heavy nailed boots. or the butt ends nf hnf ri n in chains of lighter kind.
 Many of my friends have been through this; some have died under it.
 The Splendid" System of Slavery.
 In every colony labor presents serious problems, and many are the proposals made for solving them.
 The forcing of labor is so managed as to put the finishing touch to the dehumanizing of the native. It is true that in some districts. where natives live near the plantations in good num- bers, man is only required to put in thirty days every four months with any employer he may be able to agree with. Under this system the planters are, more or less bound to treat their laborers fairly well.
 Examples of Dehurnanization. But in many places it is not done. Let me give a few examples from my own personal observation. O A bridegroom seized at the church door from the side of his bride, and kidnapped for labor at the coast a hundred miles away.
 The district officer said he was sorry, but could do nothing. @ The women of g. village seized and detained till their husbands re- dened them by consenting to go the coast for various terms; starting at that very moment.
 (3) Men collected at night from their beds, tied with rope, taken to German planters camp, forced to &C., cept journey allowances under threat of sjanlbok, and then taken to the coast as volunteer laborers l In one such case, the German whom | I interviewed said he had an official i license for so many men from each headman; and pleaded that his hunt CTS always removed the rope before they produced their captives 1 (4) An assistant district officer sum moned a large meeting of elders Eight hundred attended. After bus mess was done, an order was issued that none could go unless q young man came in his place ready to start 1 for the coast plantations. This official said he hated the system, but that ,.e l had to do it.
 These are typical ways in which the district officers supplemented the nor ma supply of forced labor by the headman, which was kept up reg ularly in some districts, law or no law to the contrary