REVOLTING CRUELTIES.
BESBATIONAL SrEKCH IN THE BEICfISTAG. HKEB BABKL'S INDICTMENT OF COLONIAL OFFICERS. WHOLE VILLAGES WIPED OUT NATIVES SHOT FROM CANNOH'B MOUTH. Received 3,10.5 p.m. Bums, December 3. In the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, Socialist Leader, in the coarse of a sensational speech, declared that some Uerman officer* in the Camerooos were guilty of unspeakable cruelties, which had been allowed to go unpunished.
He accused a lieutenant, who commanded an expedition against the Cohohos natives, of killing all the inhabitants in a village except fifty- t«o children, whom he pat into baskets and threw into the river rapids.
Another officer blew three natives from cannons for theft. Herr Bebel declared that the whole Colonial Administration, including Connt ron Boelow, ought to be placed in dock because they only punished the imail offenders and allowed the big one to escape.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 4 December 1906, Page 3
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138REVOLTING CRUELTIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 4 December 1906, Page 3
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