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Show BRUTAL METHODS OF THEGERMANS ! Unfitness to Rule Black Native of Africa Shown in Report. 'OFFICIAL EVIDENCE i Solf's Claim of Humane Treatment Treat-ment of Blacks Refuted in Colonial Records. LONDON. Sept. 12. A report 6on-taining 6on-taining evidence of the brutal methods employed by Gormany in the adminis- tration of her colonies In Africa made t public today by Edmund IT. L. Gcorge3, acting secretary of tho Interior, Union of South Africa, constitutes the Brit-I Brit-I ish government's reply to Dr. Solf, the German secretary of sate for the col -1 onies, that Germany would demand; tho return of her colonies at the peace conference. The report is considered an Indictment Indict-ment of German fitness to rule the black native of Africa. The evidence on which the report is based, is taken from German official documents at Vindhnck from sworn statcmenlo by native chiefs and by Europeans familiar famil-iar with the country and from the t writings of Governor Leulwein, who ,'held ollice from 1S94 to 1905: Dr. Paul Itohrback. Dr. Karl Dove and others. Altogether the report refutes In detail Dr. Solf's recent claim that "Germany's per-war humane treatment of tho native na-tive races won for her the moral right to be a great colonial power." Georges' Interesting Statement. In view of this claim the following statement by Acting Secretary Georges Geor-ges is interesting: "The native opinion here is unanimously unani-mously against any idea of their evcri being handed back to the tender mer-1 cies of Germany. Any suggestion of tho possibility of an act of this kind on the part of Great Britain produces the utmost consternation." Unbroken Record of Bad Faith. The report shows that the first twenty-five years of German rule in southwest Africa was an 'unbroken record of official bad faith, private oppression, op-pression, cruelty, barbarities and robberies, rob-beries, culminating in the Herero and Hottmtot rebellions. When the Germans first arrived, says the report, they entered into agreements witli the native chiefs but these became scraps of paper and the natives were fraudulently deprived or their best land. Traders and settlers robbed them of their- cattle and the law subsequently prevented the na-1 tlves from possessing large herds of stock. The natives wore thus driven to , work at ridiculously inadequate wages . and often were never paid. They were treated like slaves and their women , folk were habitually maltreated by the j Germans who took them Into forced ; concubinage, I Natives Goaded Into Rebellions. These were some of the things j which goaded the natives into rcbel-j rcbel-j lions, which were suppressed by ruthless ruth-less cruelty, resulting practically in. the extermination of the three tribes involved. The Hereros were reduced from S0.000 to 15.100, the Hottentots' from 20.000 to 0S00 and the Bergh-Damaras Bergh-Damaras from 30,000 to 12,800. Thus SO per cent of the Herero people disappeared dis-appeared 'and more than half of the Hottentots and Bcrgh-Damaras shared tho same fate. The lenient Governor Leutwein was superceded by the notorious no-torious Trotha. Trotha issued an "extermination "ex-termination ordor" the terms of which provided that no Herero man, woman, child or babe was to receive mercy or quarter. Heltz' Secret Circular. But one of the most significant documents doc-uments in tho report is a secret circular cir-cular by Governor Heltz in 1912 and addressed to magistrates in which he refers to the desperate feeling becoming becom-ing prevalent nmong the natives. "The reason," ho stales, "which unanimously unanimous-ly Is given for this fact is that the brutal excesses of Europeans against 1 natives is openly increasing. Jt Is re? grottable that such offenses are not punished by the courts of law and offenders of-fenders should be treated according to a sense of Justice to the natives." Acting Secretary Georges supplying sworn statomnls from natives which give some idea of the reign of tenor existing among them. He adds: Reign of Terror. "The cruelty, Injustice and barbarism barbar-ism might be multiplied almost indefinitely. in-definitely. Instances of gross bestial conducl which for sheer depravity and immorality are well nigh unbelievable, aro also contained in the file of affidavits, affi-davits, but they aro hardly fit for publication." pub-lication." . Part of the report deals with tho position of the natives before the law. ' jjjj f Tho ordinance governing criminal W) jurisdiction over the natives contained provisions repugnant to every concep- j H tion of justice, imprisonment in chaina J tfiS and flogging were allowed not only for F j ;j serious crimes, but as "disciplinary i, measures," on the application of an ' ), employer, or for offenses against this j M master ani servants' Jaw. No oppor- . ma tunity ji redress was open to them ! w j and they dared not go to the police f(j Mil with their grievances. Crimes by Ger- '3 Jl 1 mans, however, against natives wcrc?1 jM reviewed by tho, courts, Jj |