El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-11
BY
Frank G. Carpenter
Copyright, ISIS. BY
Frank G. Carpenter

law orders 50 lashes in two instruments.
the man gets 50 AZ one time"
In another place the bishop tells how
the natives are tortured He tells how
one Of his black friends was taken into
the woods with a native policeman and
a German official and beaten day by day
for q week until his body was aeInas- OF
wounds Another native Christian was
put in the iron hat. band Of iron be-
ing passed around his head and tight
ened BY q viselilze screw SO as to press
espectailv on The temples. The agony thus
caused Is unspealzable- Another method
Of torture Is TO tie a string 70 the mid
die finger and pass II back under and
round the forearm and tighten till the
man confesses- The punishment OF the
chain gang also Is terribly cruel Eight
men or women are chained by the neck
to one heavy chain and not unclaimed IN
til the sentence Is finished
Bishop Weston tells how the natives
are ensiaved and how their women are
outraged While on a tour the officials
require that each MN be supplied with
q young girl at each sleeping place. and
women are seized and bought and sold
as concuhines- The whole letter OF the
bishop. which Is considerably longer than
the one 1 herewith publish today, is
filled with stories OF German uutrages on
the natives II convlnciugiy shows that
they are not 1T 10 retain the colony they
Trained Butchers.
Leaving Lake Victoria. ] went by the
railroad 500 miles eastward &c the Indian
D
Africa I found German soldiers every
where and under them native army
trained by the Prusslans- The natives
were big Swapping fellows, many OF them
over six feet in height and large in pro
portion Most OF them had brutal faces
and were educated TO be butchers in bat
Rich Cattle Country.
German East Africa Is ricn grains
country. The natives have about 4t0oo.-
900 cattle and more than 5000. 900 shsep
D
I had increased about 500 percent during
the ten years preceding the war II was
more than f20.e00,oo0 in 1879 and had
! jumped two and half muiion dollars up
ward in 1913. The territory IL rich in
coal. iron, copper and lead
Gen SHUTS. who. with the aid OF the
I BeIEians and Portuguese. conquered the
country. says the Germans we're develop
! ing Il, not as an ordinary colony. but as
I possession FOR the cultivation OF tropi-
I cal raw materials He says they have
I systematically discouraged white settle
ments. and have parceled cut the besl
lands TO syndicates or individuals with
] large capital
! Next 10 German East Africa the Ger
mans have been spending the greater part
Of their African appropriations or the
] long strip OF semi-desert At the southwest
Z ern end Of the continent This strip Is
bounded on the north BY Portuguese Nesl
/ Africa and on the east and south BY the
! Cape Province. while the west Is ths
Atlantic ocean It Is 50 percent largei
I
/ equal to Texas and Oklahoma comb inec
] Nevertheless, Il has q population al tolo
/ Of less than 10o. 600. OF which about 1t--
I 00e are whites l2.0o0 being Germans ms
! blacks are Of low order They Include
] Brshnen. Hottentots. Ovambos, Rest1rul
: and Hereros. IN 1914 the Hereros re-
: beI.ed against the Germans. and the kaisei
I adopted the same policy as 70 their e1
J termination as was suggested to the Turks
; IN the massacre OF the Armenians- Gen
Z Won Trotha then Issued proclama tioI
[ stating: Every Herero within the Ger
man frontier, with or without a rife. VIII
/ or without cattle. viii be shot I wi
not take over any more women and chill
: dren- The result. was that tens OF thou
1 sands II Hereros were murdered
4 The Hereros were almost nomads Ihel
/ had floclzs and cattle. which they droF'
I about from place 10 place 10 find pasture
i They numbered something Ike 100000 De
l them are living today The Bushmen az
] mostly hunters who wander about
search OF game and water They AZ
rapidly decreasing The Bastsrds are
! Hottentots who migrated from Cape Col
ony 30 or SO years ago IneY nurnoe
Southwest Africa has been IN the hand
OF the Germans ever since 1Ss3. but
Is only recently that they have bee
doing much to develop It They nav
spent a great deal IN improving the har
bors: and by 1913 they had more tnal
1 200 miles OF railway opened. with NOR
:
I under construction During the war N
British. in order 10 help along their in
vasion from the south. made an eNten
sion OF the South African railway sys
ten. and in 1918 Joined It with the Ger
| man system at Ealkfontein- This no.
/ ! connects German Southwest Africa Wit
the Union OF South Africa The Toa
was completed just about two weeks o.
fore the country was finally conquered
| is now administered BY the governrne1
OF the Union Of South Africa
= German Southwest Africa Is said 10
rich IN minerals: and copper, lead TIN an
? diamonds have been found The diamond
! were discovered near Luderitzbueht
! 1895. and up to the time the war beEa
? almost SCOT. 900 carats, worth Ss5.o9e.oo
) had been taken out The diamonds a.
I not found in pipes as at Kimberly an
! Pretoria, but mixed with other stones an
: | IN the sards. in much the same way
! I in the diamond mines Of Brazil In lsl
. the British produced 100000 carats an
E ithe Germans more than 100000, while
, 1913 the Germans produced more TIA
: one-fIfth As many diamonds a. the Brl
Z ish That year the German colony sol