THE ASHANTI REBELLION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 8

THE ASHANTI REBELLION.

KING’S REFERENCE. An interesting comment on the African view of Nazi conduct has recently been made by the King of the Ashantis, which people rose against the British in 1900. “After the 1900 rising,” he said, “women and children were not tortured, nor were refugees machine-gunned, or chased by the English.” ' _ The Ashanti rebellion was the final chapter of a long history of fighting between the Ashanti , people and the British. The. Ashanti Country, north of- the Gold Co-ast, was annexed by Great Britain in 1901. The country first came under the notice of' Europeans in the 18th. Century, and in 1807 the occupiers of a British fort had to make a humiliating peace with Ashanti forces. In 1896 their King, Prempeh, was deported to the Seychelles Islands, and in 1900 the Ashantis rose in rebellion. This led to the British having to take to a fort at Kumasi, and Hausa and Yoruba troops played a prominent part before the fort was reached by a rescue party after a force from its occupants had fought its way out for help.