A GERMAN GARRISON MASSACRED.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2820, 10 November 1903, Page 2

A GERMAN GARRISON MASSACRED.

The Bondelwartz, a tribe of Hottentots, have captured Forb Warmbad in Garman South Africa, and matsicred the German garrison, owing ta the execution of a tribal chief. The English resHmta are safe, but he'd as prisouers, Sir Gordon Sprigg in negotiatiug for their release Later details show that the Herman garri eon at Fort Warmbad made a gal'ant resist* ance to the bitter ecdagaios , ; overwhelming numbers of Roi.delzwarty tribesmen, who number 500 fighting men. The garrison at Keetmannohoop was also attacked. Ger. man reinforcements have left Windhoek for the scene of the fighting The Hottentots murdered many German storekeepers in outlying districts, oni also miscaored a police poet at Usibip. The cause of the outbreak was a demand for the. surrender of arms, with a view to their registration. Lieutenant Jobsfc, while parleying, lost his temper, and shot a chief dead;