Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-09-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE STRIFE IN UGANDA. Mr. Hankin, Fellow of St. John's College THE further despatches from Captain I Cambridge, is a bold man. He has been to Lugard enable us to form a tolerably corn- Paris and had himself inoculated with cholera prehensive idea of the events which led to vaccine by M.Haffkine, one of the workers in the fighting in Uganda. It is much to M. Pasteur's laboratory. Mr. Hankin is not Captain Lugard's credit that his narrative sure that the efficacy of the inoculation in is perfectly temperate. It stamps him as a the case of human beings is completely man who, in a very difficult situation, did his established, but be makes it clear that the best to keep the peace between two bands of experiment to which he subjected himself ,religious veteran strualing for the mastery without any disturbance to his general health over an ignorant and-- ere-anions barbarian, is an expedient worth trying in a cholera The account which has been furnished by epidemic. the French missionaries accuses Captaiu I--Lugard of the grossest partiality, but his 1 There is now no very great need to evidence shows that the French are not very examine carefully those who arrive here from trustworthy witnesses. It is clear that the Hamburg. I have just been assured that Catholic party initiated the disturbances by this much vaunted examination has become endeavouring to poison Mwanga's mind not as near farce as is possible. A passenger on only against the Protestants but also the one of the North-German Lloyd boats from British East Africa Company. It seems to Bremerhaven to Southampton tells me that, have been the idea of the Catholic bishop on arriving at Southampton, he was shown that if he could only manceuvre Captain with twenty-five others into the smokingLugari th% NOTIO he would have a room of the ship, and was there visited by tea held for hEt Own suprempq, The the doctor. The physician was in capital trouble began with the rausel of l'ilwanga, spirits. He wished the company good morn. acting on the instigation of the Catholic ing, asked if anyone was suffering from cholera, Datives, to punish a murderer. Then followed said that he was Mad to find that no one was, a series of hostile acts against the Protestant and then told the whole of the suspects to party, culminating in war. At this point get ashore. This play being over, the passenCaptain Lugard considered it his duty to gers arrived on land to tell a delightful tale intervene, and, having failed to restore peace of the anger of a Norwegian undertaker who by counsel, he put down the Catholic aggres- has just shipped four thousand coffins to sion with the Maxim gun. His story leaves Hamburg. and finds that they may not be little doubt that had he not taken prompt action he would have been the cod Of B used. They also speak of scenes in the city bjf formidablt Agaipst Ch o Trench mis- which remind one of the best things in Harrison Ainsworth and Defoe. Many families f sionartes e took no measures whatever, and at the present moment are prisoners in their even gave them shelter during the early part own houses, having barricaded doors and of the crisis. This was repaid when the windows, and settled down to the tinned Catholic bishop took refuge with Mwanga on meats and rice with which their citadels are the island, and the king was prompted to fortified. These are the people who have cheated send insolent messages to Captain Lugard. the Norwegian coffin merchant and caused With regard to the attack on the island, his a Captain Lugard's report is not very explicit. nger. It is very inconsiderate of them. He suggests that the women and children were not harmed, but the Catholic account is that many of these were drowned in the canoes which were sunk by the Maxim gun. As the testimony of the French missionaries has been"disproved on some important points we are willing to believe that Captain Lugard may yet furnish details of the fighting which shall relieve him from the reproach of wholesale massacre.