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Show GERMAN FORCES SUFFER ANOTHER SEVERE REVERSE AT HANDS OF SAVAQE ffERERQS TRIBESMEN IN AFRICA JiHHiHtnmiit -f -H-H-f-- iniiitmiimmtinHHmmmmiHUHnnH - U- . 4 1 T 5QUXH JlFJVGi ZWaCEUWPfLZIfG LKTE3T. STAND QJFL THE UEIRERDS. cAS 4 4 -f TtmnHmnniitmnt! BERLIN, March 19 Col. Leutwin, the Govomor of German Southwest Africa, reports severe fighting there March 13th. Commandant Glazenapp, with a number num-ber of his staff officers and thirty-six cavulrymen, advanced ahead of hla main body and overtook the enemy's vanguard, which had unexpectedly received re-ceived reinforcements. . Glazenapp was forced to return, losing sevon officers and nineteen privates killed and three officers and two privates wounded. The fight occurred March- 13th- near Owlkokorcro with the Tetjo tribe of Horeros, whom Glazenapp was pursuing. pursu-ing. The enemy's loss Is not known, but twenty dead natives, wero seen. Glazenapp's detachment had one machine ma-chine gun. He Is now talcing measures to attack the Hereros' position In force and probably will ask for reinforcements reinforce-ments from Maj. Estereff's column. Col. Leutwin later cabled the names of the dead, who Include Capt. von Francis, Lieut. Eggers and Dr. Velten, a physician of Hablcht. Glazenapp himself was slightly wounded In tho hood. o- Tho news of the German reverse made a disappointing Impression on Berlin, since it Involved the most severe losses the Germans have yet reported and because be-cause It was hoped that the worst was over. In view of thla latest fight. It Is regarded as possible that further reinforcements re-inforcements will bo sent to Southwest Africa. HEREROS REBELLION DISCUSSED IN REISCHTAG In the Reichstag today Herr Bebl. tho Seven Officers and Nineteen Men Killed in a Skirmish Fight With the Insurgent Blacks, : : ' .1 Socialist leader, referred-to the German, campaign against the Hereros.' which, he said, had taken on a character, prejudicial to Germany's interest and honor, slnco all Hereros wore killed and no prisoners wero taken. He rc-ferrM rc-ferrM to a letter from a veterinary surgeon, Dr. Baumgart, In the Leipslc Neuate Nachrlchten, asserting that no quarter was given and that every black was shot down, Dr. Baumgart himself boasting that he had massacred wounded wound-ed men, Uko a cannibal. "Therein can be seen," continued Herr Bebel, "how far even our educated edu-cated people are becoming brutalb-.ed. Let us not deceive ourselves with tho belief that the present occurrences In Southwest Africa make a demoralizing Impression only on tho troops there. The descriptions sent must nlso havo a demoralizing and brutalizing effect on the German ieople." Ilerr Bebel did not deny that the Hereros also perpetrated cruelties, but he Intimated that the icports on the subject sent to Germany were purposely purpose-ly colored. The tales of horror circulated circu-lated by the German press were at least partly untrue, "like the alleged murder of two women who arc still living." Continuing, Herr Bebel said: "The ro-ports ro-ports ot the Rhenish Missionary society show that things are by no means as bad as reported in the newspapers friendly to the Colonial office. Thoeo reports show that the Hereros spare the whites who prove to bo not Germans, Ger-mans, like tho EngllBh, Boers and Danc-s. I "It appears, therefore, that some of our cour.trymen havo so maltreated the Ht-reros that they have generated a fanatical prejudlco against Germans In ceneral. , ."Samuel Maharaero, chief of the Hereros," He-reros," continues the missionary report, "has given orders that no harm be done to non-Germans, missionaries, women and children, but that German men be i shot down mercilessly. I "The missionaries further report' that the Hereros begged pardon of white women wounded by stray shots In fights, saying they did not wish to hurt defenseless women. "There Is no word of truth in the assertions as-sertions that the missionaries made common causo with the Hereros. On tho other hand, many Hereros took refuge In missionary stations, which apparently were regarded as places ot safety." Herr Bebel also said the Socialists, after Easter, would demand an answer of tho Colonial olllce on these matters. Dr. Arendt, Conservative, questioned tho veracity of tho writer of the letter Herr Bebel had mentioned. Private letters, Dr. Arendt added, are olten filled with vain boasting. The House must wait until the rebellion is subdued sub-dued and then try to ascertain tho facts. "At any rate," Dr. Arendt continued, "all sides agree that tho Hereros have devastated, plundered and destroyed In 1 a frightful manner. Our concern now 1b to help our countrymen without Inquiring In-quiring into the causes of the rebellion." Tho supplementary credits for Southwest South-west Africa wore then voted, and tho HouEe resumed tho debate on the military mili-tary budget |