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Show AIDING MAD MULLAH WHITE RENEGADE ENGLAND'S WORST . FOE IN SOMALILAND. IX NEARLY every war between sav- age tribes and -civili.ed powers to- day the savages are assisted by j white men who have become traitors to civilization. Such renegades are scattered through all the remote corners cor-ners of the earth. The British troops campaigning m Somaliland are learning to their cost i that the Mad Mullah is assisted by a ! white man familiar with the art of ' modern warfare. His name is Karl Inger. He was an oflicer in the Aus-i Aus-i trian armv until a year or two ago. I An English oflicer,. Captain Tnorp of the Yorkshire light infantry, who knew him at Budapest, speaks of him as an exceptionally brilliant soldier, with n natural gift for tactics and for commanding com-manding men. Inger used to speak bitterly bit-terly against the English and was fond of expressing sympathy with the native na-tive races in their struggles with civilization. civ-ilization. He would rail by the hour against the treatment of the Indians in the United States, of the Kaffirs in South Africa and of the Hindus in India. He disappeared from Budapest shortly short-ly before the outbreak in Somaliland, and his acquaintances were not surprised sur-prised to hear that he was fighting as a lieutenant of the Mad Mullah. Native Na-tive spies reported that he adopted the Mohammedan religion in Cairo and was taken to the Mullah's camp through Italian Somaliland by some Arab pilgrims whom he met in Cairo on their return from Mecca. It is asserted as-serted that ' he had much to do with stirring up the recent war and persuading per-suading the Mad Mullah to defy the British. Curiously enough, his old acquaintance, acquaint-ance, Captain Thorp, had been "seconded" "sec-onded" from his regiment and attached to the Somaliland field force as a special spe-cial service oflicer. Thus they may meet face to face in battle. In that case one or the other is likely to go under, for Captain Thorp, in common with the other officers of the British force, has vowed to risk the uttermost peril to slay this traitor to civilization, who is held responsible for the cutting up of Colonel Swayne's expedition some months ago. It is said that Lord Lansdowne, the British foreign minister, confidentially asked the Austrian government whether it was true that Inger had joined the Mullah. The Austrian government gov-ernment replied that there was reason to believe b had and addpii n hone that if he was caught he woula receive no mercy. Inger appears to be gifted with the qualities that impress the savage mind. He is skillful in planning ambushe3 and strategems. and is especially valuable val-uable to the Mullah because, knowing the effects of rifle .and Maxim fire, he prevents the Somalis from madly facing fac-ing it and being mowed doy-n like corn, as the dervishes were at Omdur-man. Omdur-man. He takes care that they shall fight the British troops in the jungle under conditions which make the superior arms of the latter ineffective. British officers say that the trouble at Somaliland Somali-land would have been over long ago but for Karl Inger. T If he were caught by native troops uncontrolled by an officer he would probably die by slow torture. A Zanzibar! Zan-zibar! spy who has penetrated to the Mullah's camp asserts that Inger has made up his mind to shoot . himself rather than be captured. Another renegade .from civilization, and one of ithe most notorious, is Os-man Os-man Digna, the De Wet of the Soudan. He was the right-hand man of the Mahdl and afterward of the Khalifa. Ever since 1?S2 he has been 'a thorn in the side of the British. For tnanj' years he- was supposed to be an Arab chieftain, but Slatin Pasha found that he is a white man, born of Scottish parents In Cairo. It is said that he was in the employment of the government of Egypt in his youth, but was cashiered for theft and blackmail on the complaints of some European merchants in Cairo. Burning for revenge, he went south and joined the' Mahdi immediately after the latter raised the standard of revolt against Egypt in 1S82. He soon became known as the best general of the dervishes, inflicting defeat after defeat on the British and Egyptian troopos, massacring whole armies, capturing cap-turing cities and devastating many hundreds of miles of. country. He took no prisoners, spared no neutrals. neu-trals. Wherever his-swift cavalry and camel corps went they left a trail of desolation behind them. Many efforts -were made to capture I or kill Osman Digna, but sll without success. A former captive in the camp , of the Khalifa says that an Abyssinian whom he had injured stabbed Osman violently over the heart. The knife broke in two, but Osman I was uninjured. Naturally the ignorant I dervishes thought he was invulnerable. ,' The simple explanation is that he wore a coat of very fine chain armor under his burnouse. v . j A British officer recently told how he : fought in hand-to-hand combat with Osman when the dervishes broke the British square at Tel-el-Kebir. i "I got a thrust with my sword right home on his chest,", said the officer, "and it should have gone through him, but his-confounded chain armor turned the point of the weapon. A rush of the dervishes then swept ur. apart. "I remember him as a very tall and powerful man, with a most ferocious expression. He fought like a madman. His skin looks like a. white man. and I noticed that his eyes are light blue." When the power of the Khalifa' "was utterly broken at Omdunnan in .1S9R, Osman Digna. escaped the slaughter, riding off the field with a small body of picked horsemen before the battle was over. Lord Kitchener was bitterly disappointed, dis-appointed, and sent expedition after expedition ex-pedition in pursuit of him. Most of his comrades, including the Khalifa, were I captured and slain, but Osman always escaped. . ' ; He is now dwelling with the Mabas. a ( Mohammedan negro race, who are the ; ruling tribe in the kingdom of Wadai. Natives assert that soon after Osman found refuge there he conspired with i : Abu Said, a son of the former king of Wadai, to assassinate the reigning king. The conspiracy was successful." Abu Said now rules over Wadai, with Osman as his prime minister. Thev are supported by hordes of the finest" and' most fanatical native fighting men in I Africa, including the remnants of the khalifa's forces. , ' The English and French authorities irt the Soudan expect that Wadai will ! give them sarious trouble in ihe near j future, now that Osman is there. -They ' fear it will be the center of another I outbreak as formidable as the Mahdl's. J Ey an Anglo-French agreement made i in March, 1S99. Wadai Was assigned to 1 fiance. But in Africa it is one thing to assert authority and another thing" to enforce it. 1 Osman told the natives of the agreement, agree-ment, and they became indignant and resolved to fight the unbelievers. But Osman restrained them. He has learned by experience the power of a civilized army, and he does not mean to fight one again until he has a reasonable hope of success. , 1 The new sultan of Wadai has accept- ' ed Turkish suzerainty, and in return the sultan of Turlcev has refused to recognize the Anglo-French agreement of 1S99 and is lending his influence in support of the pl6ts of Osman. Those who know the man declare that Osrpsp, Inspired by his indomitable hatred of his own race, will never rest until he , has stirred up . another war and drenched central Africa in blood. The dark continent is full of these romantic stories of traitors to civilization. civiliza-tion. One of the strangest is that of Captain Voulet. He was a French military officer in IK5 employment of -the governor general gen-eral of French West -Africa. He had command of a column of, native troops in 199 and was ordered to march toward to-ward Lake Tchad and explore the vast stretch of new territory which had just been assigned to France by the Anglo-French Anglo-French agreement. . It was an. important impor-tant mission, and Captain Voulet roight have made a name for himself and become be-come a second Major Marchand. But he had more ambitious dreams. He was fired by the example of Rabah, "the black Napoleon," who, starting in life as a slave of Zebhr Pasha, became be-came the greatest conquerer and monarch mon-arch in Africa, and was at that very moment successfully fighting the French. "Let us." he said to his subordinate. Captain Chanoine, "become kings in our own right. This country belongs to the men who take it. "Let us carve out an empire for ourselves. our-selves. We have a" small army who will follow us in everything without asking the reason why." Chanoine agreed. They immediately threw off their allegiance to Ftanee and attacked village after village, and tribe after tribe, with their column , of troops. Some French non-commissioned officers offi-cers who objected to this treachery were promptly murdered. Natives were , massacred by hundreds and thousands until the two renegades established a reign of terror over a wide area of the country. News of these strange doings soon reached the French colonial office and a small expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meunier was dispatched to find out the truth. Klobb overtook Voulet at Slnder, in Damanger, half way between the Niger Ni-ger and Lake Tchad. He asked for a parley, but Voulet refused to allow him to approach, threatening to fire on his party. Klobb advanced, shouting that he had come j in peace and would not fire. Voulet received him with a volley. Klobb and most of his escort fell dead. Meunier, severely wounded, was borne away into the jungle by the survivors sur-vivors and escaped to tell the story to the authorities. Voulet and Chanoine were outlawed and a strong expedition sent against them. Before it could reach them they were shot by some of their own men whom they had severely flogged. The natives who bad been under their command gave themselves up to the authorities. So ended Captain Voulet's dream of becoming an African emperor. em-peror. Renegade whites fought for the Asharjtis against the British during Sir Francis Scott's expedition in 1895, and also when Sir Frederick and Lady Hodgson were besieged in Kumassi in 1900. On the latter occasion a white, who was believed to be- an Englishman, was frequently seen trying to induce he Ashantis to assault the entrenchments of Kumassi. The British officers risked their live again and again attempting attempt-ing to slay him. but without success. Renegade whites have often fought against the British flag in the little wars on the northwestern frontier of India. An officer who was dismissed in disgrace from the Indian army for having hav-ing told falsehoods in an official report, is known now to be living with a Pa-than Pa-than tribe. He is believed to have frequently fre-quently fought against his former comrades. A former officer of the Russian army named Leontieff is in the service of the old negus of Abyssinia. Opinions are divided as to whether he is simply sim-ply a renegade white, as he appears to be on the surface or a secret agent of the czar. Daring the Philippine campaigns several American deserters fought in the ranks ofthe Filipinos. Some were killed in battle and two or three were captured and hanged. |