Show POOR NATIVES S V V j jI I BEING ROBBED I t 1 Cause C use V of the Tr uble in German Germa Southwest Africa I VV I RAPACITY T EME t V VV V 1 s u TO TOo V VV VV VVS V r R o V VS o I t tI 1 t I Berlin Jan An n official dispatch cU from a Southwest South Africa atys ii he German Ge have lost loot heavily in an unsuccessful 1 uce Attempt it tempt o 0 relieve that nat five and their the famines hae have been bee murdered and that t the been 11 threatening I Light t has Been thrown by the Frankfurter on same of tee te contributory causes causes of the tie ris rising ing mg in German Southwest Africa as s 8 the there result re of statements made matlo to that paper by a traveler who has just returned from and rind The merchants and ana the traders tra allied with them are charged with purposely in In the natives 1 Its In debt Accord According ing to this traveler the traders are aremo mostly mo discharged soldiers whom the merchants equip with wagons and d irma from sixteen to twenty oxen and goods vat val valued at thousands of or marks The trad trod traders traders ers sell ell at first entirely on credit not requiring any cash until they make mase e later tripe trips The improvident natives native buy bay largely and repeatedly ou ous these e eA eay ea y terms and the merchants favor faOr tb the system sy tem by extending and renewing the tM credits of the traders sometimes sometime to 1 l li marks The h ders finally begin I collecting p portion of at the debt taking cattle in payment and at t the same time selling more gootie on credit raIt It The natives na natives tives are often Indebted to several trad traiL traders traiLers ers erg at the same time V Natives Have Bays Good Cause i 1 J I The Frankfurter Frank urtel informant adds add that he h found the th merchants took an average of 70 per cent profit on the too transactions of the traders and aDd the t iatter latter adds per cent and usually u makes O per cent more on the cattle which they take in payment The traders furth further r aroused the anger of the natives by seizing the cattle ar at arbitrarily without waiting for legal pro procedure procedure It is 18 true that the authorities forbid this but the natives nathe usually do donot donot not merely nursing their grievances and if It they do complain the police poUce have difficulty in discovering dl he offending traders I II I A German Gesman patrol which engaged the he heI I natives near nOar n r t o a reserve erve re of officer deer Von Yon Boyen one noncommissioned n V I officer and six Ix men nen killed kil kilI The garrison of 0 f numbers 23 men part of the force being horse horsemen horsemen I men with two machine guns |