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Show oo j WAR FELT IN ALL PARTS I OF WORLD. How far reaching is the of feet of the mighty struggle in Euorpe is ; brought to mind by a report from mis- I sionaries in the heart of German East I Africa, in that region where Living-! stone was lost to civilization almost I as completely as though he had passed i to another world. When the war broke lout Valedmar E. Tonnenberc: of Boul der, Colorado, was conducting a missionary mis-sionary station on tho eastern shore of Victoria Nyanza, that great lake at the source of the Nile river. "We were not very well prepared for tho great conflict," he writes, "so: far as food and clothes were concerned; con-cerned; we had just sent orders to British East Africa for sugar and flour and oil. Large shipments of goods from Europe and America arrived in Mombasa, of which nothing ever reached us. At a stroke wo wore set back to the Middle Ages. We had no white flour, not even wheat to make from; no white sugar, no petroleum, no soap In short, nothing of all tho things we used to think indispensible. These and many other things we had to find substitutes for bananas, native na-tive grains and muhogo for flour, wild honey for sugar, candles made of tallow for light, soap from wood ashes and lime. Clothes were also not to be had, so we wore pants and coats made of goat and gazelle skins, made yarn of cotton and knitted stockings." The natives took advantage of the conflict raging between tho whites and began to plunder and kill. The missionaries were driven from their outposts, and the Colorado man, with his wife and 15 months baby had to go through a wild country, which he describes: "When we went on, five chiefs who feared for their lives, and their sub-chiefs, sub-chiefs, accompanied, us through a country ime a zoological garden. Rignt and left were hundreds upon hundreds hun-dreds upon hundreds of zebras, harte-beest, harte-beest, wildebeest, many antelope and gazelle, also ostriches and other animals ani-mals I did not take time to hunt, but hurried right on. That evening we slept by the seashore at Speke Gulf, on the southeastern shore of the lake. Here the Swnhile overseers of the lime works had been killed. We saw their empty huts, as well as the empty house of the European who used to live here. "Monday we came into country under the chief of Ukerewe, and Tuesday Tues-day we were by the channel separating separat-ing Ukerewe Island from the mainland. main-land. Wednesday we crossed in the canoes and soon were met by the English outposts we were in safety. The chief official came down to meet us, and received us very kindly. We worn Virnii rh f tr tVi nomn n n.. u where we were given a very nice and comfortable thatch hut." This story of flight is not unlike the accounts of the wild experiences of those who first came into this western region, and faced the perils of the Indians, with this exception that there were no hartebeest or ostriches, but there were buffalo in great herds and other wild animals, and the Indians were a greater source of danger'than the uncontrolled tribes of central Africa. But the most impressive feature of this message from Africa, is the evidence evi-dence that the war has engulfed the world. No part of the earth, even Darkest Africa, where wildebeest roam, has scaped. In the United States, 'where the direct di-rect effect of the war has been warded ward-ed off by wise counsel, Ihe country has been affected indirectly by a great advance in prices, and this nation is beginning to realize that no country can fully escape sharing in the burden bur-den which the war has brought upon civilization. oo |
