GERMANY AND HER COLONIES.
SENSATIONAL SPEECH IN THE REICHSTAG.
OFFICERS ACCUSED OF UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTIES.
Received December 3, 10,5 p.m. BERLIN, Deaember 3. In the Reiohstag Herr Bebel, in the course of a sensational speech, declared that some of the German officers in the Oameroons were guilty of unspeakable oruelties, which had been allowed to go unpunished. He aoonsed the lieutenant, who oommanded the expedition against the Cohohos natives, of killing all the inhabitants of a village except 52 children, whom they put in baskets and threw into the river rapids. Another offloer blew three natives from cannons for theft. Herr Bebel deolared that the whole nf tbe colonial administration, inoluding Prince Bulow, ought to be placed in tbe dock, because they only punished small offenders and allowed tbe big ones to escape.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8302, 4 December 1906, Page 5
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132GERMANY AND HER COLONIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8302, 4 December 1906, Page 5
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