THE HEREROS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 113, 17 May 1904, Page 3

THE HEREROS.

GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR AFRICA. (Received Muv 17, 1.16 a.m.) BERLIN, May 16. Germany is sending thirteen hundred reinforcements to South Africa, GERMANS IN SOOTH AFRICA. The Germans are experiencing some of the disadvantages that attend possessions in Africa. Recently, for example, Berlin was startled to hear that the Hereros, who are being treated " punitively" in reprisal fortheir attack upon German settlements in South-west Africa, had cut off a party of officers. They were riding with Major von Glasenapp in ; advance of the main column,when the . Hereros, who were supposed to be re- ; treating before them, suddenly opened fire and drove them back on their J supports. No less than seven officers \ were killed ami three wounded, be- J sides nineteen men killed and two wounded out of thirty-six who were ' escorting the party. They had a ; Maxim with them, of course, but it does not appear to have been used. The disaster will, of course, hasten the despatch of reinforcements ; but it is keenly felt in Germany, where the African colonies are not overvalued, and where the impression is I that the Hereros in particular have been needlessly provoked by the sub- J ordinate officers to whom too much - power has been entrusted. There is , a rumour that another formidable tribe may take the field, and that, - indeed, the Germans may have to i fact; a general native rising. It is i possible that there is some exaggeration in the stories of the soldiers' brutality, but it is certain that the Germans do not anywhere conciliate native feeling. They insist too strongly on an abject obedience