FROM AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1888, Page 2

FROM AFRICA.

It was reported at Massowah, October Ist, that the Alahdi is dead at Khartoum.

Experienced African travellers are of opinion that Stanley has gone into the interior of the "Dark Continent," where he could not be heard ftoin for a year or two.

The Bechuana chiefs, hearing that Lord Salisbury intends to annex their country to Cape Colony, sent a protest, October 3rd, declaring they will never submit to ii\ They desire British protection, but wish to remain separate from the Cape. It has boon decided to greatly increase the strength of the expedition for the relief of Emm Bey. The British man-of-war O?prey captured off Mocka, on October 9th, three Arab dhows with 204 slaves. The captains of the slaves and lour slaves were killed before they surrendered.

MASSACRE OF GERMANS.

Advices from Zanzibar at London, October Ist, say that tho Germans at Kilwa, in sight of one of their own men o'-war, were all murdered by tho natives while bravely defending themselves, An American gunboal; waa present, but was v.nnblo bo render any assistance in Uie faoo of the armed thousands of natives lyinj? 01) the beach. The doatl wero horribly mutilated, The Germans at Lindi were saved fro;n a similar fate by tho biave conduct; pi: Captain <JiuK>>y and Lieutenant Walkar, who landed' from a British gun -■ boat, air though1 the bead] was swarming with hostile rabels, and brought them p|V safely. In a few moments more all would

have been massacred. The uprising against the Germans is general and is spreading^. It is in tho nature of a " Holy War, instigated by Mohammedan slavedealers, and largely due to tho harsh measures of the Germans themselves. Engltshmon as well as Germans are forced to flee for their lives. The natives are mad with fanaticism. Zauzibariscrovded with German fugitives. and the natives hold nearly every advantageous point except town's ou the coast j protected _by German war-vessels. The English missionaries are sale and also most of the stations. The natives are disposed to oiler extraordinary advantages for the [ projection of British subjects. The German frigates, Moltke, Stosch, Gneisehau, and Charlotte, which were, lying in the Bay of Naples to tire a salute in honour of tho Emperor William on his arrival: there, received orders on October 9th to proceed immediately to Zanzibar. Tho four ships carry a complement of 1,350 men and sixty-six guns. ' A despatch n-ouf Zanzibar, October 14th, says the German soldiers and sailors who recently deserted a gunboat at Molise, roamed about the country killing natives until they wore overpowered, killed and j eaten.