Show I BERLIN BITS I Another Colonial Scandal Near Exploding Ex-ploding I BERLIN July 18Copyrighted 1896 by the Associated PressAnother colonial co-lonial scandal is on the point of exploding I ploding Herr Von Puttkamer governor gov-ernor of the German Cameroons is accused ac-cused of having committed many acts I of inhumanity and cruelty similar to those alleged against Whelan and Liest I and for which those officials were ordered I or-dered to be dismissed from the colonial colon-ial service Von Puttkamers accusers are Von Streittin late vicegovernor and Gose brecht the same British journalist who exposed the abuses in the Cameroons under Whelan and Liest A large number num-ber of affidavits of eye witnesses and victims of Von Puttkamers brutality with the strongest of corroborative evidence evi-dence are now in possession of a German Ger-man paper and will soon be publsihed The evidence is so strong that it will be impossible to avoid an official investigation inves-tigation Von Puttmaker who was appointed ap-pointed to his office only eleven months ago is accused of having committed the most horrible atrociies upon both male and female natives of the Cam eroons of vile excesses and of financial speculation of a shady character Rumors Ru-mors of this kind have been current in colonial circles for some time Additional Addi-tional evidence against the governor is in the hands of two members of the left and it will be before the reichstag when that body reassembles in the form of an interpellation of the government gov-ernment The rejection of the oleomargarine oleomar-garine bjlll by the federal council has deeply angered the whole agrarian partv The Deutsche Tager Zeitung the organ or-gan of the federation of husbandry bitterly reproaches the government for its failure to support suffering Agrarians Agrar-ians with either big means or little means A bill was introduced in the diet to increase the salaries of all government govern-ment employees in Prussia This would involve a total of 20000000 marks to start with A similar bill will be introduced in the bundesrath I and the reichstag to increase the salaries sal-aries of imperial officials and likewise I those of any army officers from the grade of first lieutenant upward I A cavalry captain named Baron von Ehrhardt and First Lieutenant von I Kamptz of the garrison at Dusseldorf I have been dismissed from the army I because they refused to accept a challenge I chal-lenge to fight a duel with pistols which i was sent to them by a notorious scoundrel I scoun-drel Both officers published the facts j as an advertisement in a Dusseldorf newspaper I Empress Augusta and six of the im 1 I perlal princes may be seen daily bicycle i bi-cycle riding in the park This is anew a-new sport for the empress but under the tuition of her two oldest sons she is making rapid progress Mrs Evans the wife of Captain R K Evans the military attache of the United States legation made a bicycle trip to Her ringdorf and back a distance of 400 miles this week During the intensaly hot weather of the past week the manouvres drills and marches of the army in various parts of Germany were attended with many fatal Cases of sunstroke At Mayence the long distance march of the Thirtyseventh and EightyEighth regiments was marked by fortyeight cases of sunstroke of which sixteen were immediately fatal In the ma nouvres at Caputh thirteen soldiers fell dead Similar cases are reported from south Germany The Reichsanzeiger publishes a statement state-ment of the fiscal operations of the government for the year 189596 showing show-ing an excess in the ordinary revenues of the empire amounting to 26227387 marks over the estimate of which sum 1357796 marks will be used to cover increased expenditures and 13000000 marks applied to reducing the imperial debt r S 10 < E v t ii 1 i |