THE HEREROS REVOLT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12712, 15 November 1904, Page 5

THE HEREROS REVOLT.

'"Afftuu ton THI Aftiio4trtt> • ■ , ■ EOISXi VOLUNTEERS. ■By, : f*l»fr»pS. dAPfitbWi?, November Id. I'fiE military in German West Africa have executed* under martini law, illegitimate »-. of. a British fanner. living at:. Koes, in German territory, on the- charge "of. having had treasonable relations With the rebel leader MorOhga. . f > Tlie father also is to be tried on the same charge at Keetmanehosp. Colonel Lentwein reports that the rising of the Hereros was largely due to the influence of a "prophet*' from Cape Colony belonging to the American Ethiopian Church. Relive* STerefrfcrt It, IMS p.»4 , - Capetown, November 14. • Boer recruits to the number of 130 for the German forces operating against "the Hererca have taken traift at Johannesburg and are proceeding to Damfera'and via Capetownj The Ethiopian Church ii of American negro origin. Some months .ago aries from the Church travelled through South Africa preaching - the doctrine Ethiopianism, or " Africa for the African--It ■ was -reported >in May.that ;' these ) missionanus had. Created great unrest among the Zulu* and ; Swaais, aftd that the> were trytag to create a general revolt of blask against white. "The German idea. hardly oan Be right> a* the Hfirew revolted .\M\ fcefcr, and the jßithiopian mavijmeiit was not Hearja Of before May last. ' , f