Show I J i I POUR NATIVES S J S t t S Cause Cuse of f the Trouble in German Southwest Africa Atrio I 4 RAPACITY OH OF THE MECH NT 5 S S l RUl uw SHYLOCK TO T f ft I t Berlin Jan An AR official dispatch th from front an Southwest Africa Attica says S the t e Germans have lost lostin in ln an mt unsuccessful Attempt 0 o that five settlers and their theli entire mUre families have ha bees been murdered anti and that the have ve vei i beep been threatening I Light has ho li Keen been thrown by the Frankfurter on some same me of Le tae Lei i contributory causes of the tue its ris rising tug ling in German Southwest Africa as 8 the I result pf Or f statements made madr to that paper by traveler a who has as just returned 4 from and andja Oka The Ibe I merchants and anti the traders tra ers allied with them are charged with purposely Ut in involving the natives It In debt Accord According tag lug to this thIn traveler the traders are I mostly discharged soldiers whom the merchants equip with wagons and from sixteen een to twenty oxen and goods good vat vai 31 I tied led at thousands of marks The trad traders i ers era set sell at first entirely on credit not i requiting requiring any an cash until they mate make later lter trips trip The improvident natives buy I largely and repeatedly o oo these e ea easy y terms tenn and the merchants favor the system by extending and renewing the credits of the traders sometimes to 15 li I marks The traders finally beg begin in collecting portion of or t the e debt takIng 1 I cattle in payment and at t the same time selling more goods goad on credit c lt The rite na an natives tives tive are often indebted to several tied trad t traders ers at t the same caine time timeS i S Natives Have Good Cause i iI iThe I IThe I The Frankfurter informant info nt adds that he found the merchants took an average of 70 per cent profit pr on aD too the transactions of the traders and aDd the iatter latter adds lOll per cent and usually makes 20 per cent more on the cattle which they take in payment The traders further aroused the anger r of the tb natives by seizing the cattle ar sr arbitrarily without waiting for legal pro procedure seduce It is In true that the authorities forbid this but the natives usually u do 46 donot donot not complain merely nursing their grievances and if It they do complain the police have difficulty in discovering Ike he hei offending traders rs S A German patrol which engaged engage the natives near n lost loet a reserve erve re of officer seer leer Von Boysen one noncommissioned officer and six men killed kil The garrison of numbers 23 2 men part of the force being horse hone horsemen horsemen men with two machine guns |