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COLORED TROOPS IN WAR; THE TOGOLAND CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page 1) the 29th of July, when Mr. W. C. F. Robertson, Acting Governor in the ab sence of Sir Hugh Clifford, received a cable from the home authorities warning him that precautions should be adopted in view of the possible ex istence of a state war. Steps were at once taken to concentrate the military force of the Colony within striking distance of Togoland, and to secure the necessary supplies for the trans port of the troops. At midnight on the 4th of August information was re ceived that war had broken out with Germany. The Chiefs were immediately in formed, and at once spontaneously came forward with expressions of loy alty and offers of assistance. It was indeed, as the Governor said, “a mat ter of some difficulty to restrain their ardour.” The loval Volunteer forces “exhibited extraordinary enthusiasm,” the applications for enlistment far ex ceeding the requirements of the Gov ernment, and the supply of arms and equipment. On the 5th and 6th the telegraphic correspondence regarding the German proposal of neutrality, above referred to, took place. On the latter day Cap tain Barker of the Gold Coast Regi ment was dispatched under a flag of truce to Lome to infoim the Governor that strong columns were about to en ter the Colony from east, west and north, and to demand the surrender of the German forces, as resistance was useless. A twenty-four hours' armistice was granted. When Cap tain Barker returned to Lome at 7 p. m. on the 7th he found that the Governor had withdrawn to the in terior with his troops, leaving the District Commissioner with instruc tions and powers to surrender Lome and the Colony up to a line drawn at 120 kilometers (7414 miles) from that town. The German Governor’s inten tion was to retire up the railway to protect Kamina with its precious wire less installation, which he had imper ative instructions from Berlin, four times repeated, to defend. By the 8th of August arrangements were completed between Mr. Robert son and M. Ch. Noufflard, Lieutenant Governor of Dahomey, for co-opera tion of the British and French forces. The latter numbering 450 Tiraidleurs Senegalais, eight officers twenty non commissioned officers and two moun tain guns had on the same day occu pied positions in the neighborhood of Little Popo and Mono. On the 9th of August Mr. Robertson and M. William Ponty, Governor General of French West Africa, completed arrangements for a combined advance of the British troops of Haut Senegal and Niger on Northern Togoland, and on the 11th the British Governor was informed by the Lieutenant Governor of the Ivory Coast and Dahomey that 500 “Auxil iary Cavalry” and fifty or sixty “Gardes Cercles” had been instructed to advance against Sansanne Mango in Northern Togoland. Within three weeks, by a campaign brilliantly conducted in a country ad mirably adapted for defense by the difficulty of maintaining communica tion between the various portions of the attacking troops, the enemy had been completely defeated, and the great wireless installation which was no doubt intended to play a prominent part in the war was destroyed and communication between Germany and her African Colonies cut off. The hostile attitude of the people of To goland had considerable influence in inducing this submission. It was re ported that the clerks in German em ploy refused to take up arms against the British, and though many of the Natives were compelled to accept arms they speedily deserted, carrying their rifles and ammunition with them. All along the line of advance the French and British troops were welcomed by the people as deliverers. At Yendi the chiefs and people poured out of the town to meet Captain Ar mitage and his troops and escort him into the town. The King expressed his desire to be taken under the Brit ish protection and to be returned with the Dagomba country, of which the Yendi district ethnically forms a part, brt which had been cut into two parts by the elimination of the British and German territories. A form of treaty to this effect was signed, but cannot take effect till the conclusion of peace. A serious charge lies against Major von Doring of having used dum-dum or soft-nosed ammunition, which on impact expand and cause wounds of extreme severity. Dr. Claridge. the Senior Medical Officer with the Brit ish field force, states in his report that “without exception all the wounds hitherto treated in the force by the Medical Staff have been caused by soft-nosed bullets of large caliber. The injuries caused by these projectiles are severe, shattering bones and caus ing extensive damage to the tissues.” This is a breach of the Hague Con vention of July, 1899, while the arm ing of Natives not under control was a breach of the Hague Convention of October, 1907. The attitude of the native peoples under French and British protection 1 was enthusiastically loyal to the pro tecting Powers. Offers of assistance came from every part of the British j Protectorate of the Gold Coast Col ony, and the only difficulty of the British officials was to temper the enthusiasm of the chiefs and people without hurting their feelings. With | the full and joyful consent of the peo- ! pie the Gold Coast Government de frayed the whole cost of the cam paign, amounting to 60,000 pounds sterling, and undertook the cost of ad ministration, $3,000 pounds sterling permonth, until the fate of the coun try is finally decided on the conclusion of peace. The Secretary of State for the Col onies, Mr. Walter Long, stated in Jan uary of this year “with reference to the captured German Colonies,” “Let no man think that these territories shall ever return to German rule.” To return Togoland to the Germans would be to surrender to their ven geance the helpless people who wel comed the invaders, a vengeance which would be surely wreaked with ruthless and appalling cruelty in spite of any paper guarantees which might be given. Once under the German fist, German intrigue would invent or manufacture reasons for exacting a malevolent retribution from the vic tims of their wrath. (APT. SMITH LEAVES HOWARD Had Been in Charge of the Sol diers at Howard University, De tailed to Tuskegee. Special to The Monitor. Washington, D. C„ Jan. 19.— Captain Russell Smith. United States Infantry, has been relieved from duty at Howard University, this city, and detailed as professor of military sci ence and tactic- at Tuskegee Institute. Alabama. First Lieutenant Campbell C. Johnson. United States Infantry, has been assigned to duty as professor of military science and tactics at How ard University. FREEDMEN’S AID SOCIETY Cincinnati, O., Jan. 25.—The Board of Managers of the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting there, passed a res olution asking the Congress of the United States to pass a federal law for the suppression of lynching. The society has at present twenty two Negro educational institutions under its care throughout the South. Appropriations aggregating $500,000 were made to maintain work among Negroes. Neatly furnished rooms at the North Side Rooming House in one block of three car lines. 2429 Lake street. Webster 1529. Mrs. J. A. Jones. WHY NOT A BIG MEMORIAL? The word has gone forth that early next month every state in the country will join in a memorial to the late Theodore Roosevelt. What are we people going to do here? There is but one thing we should do and that is to have the grandest memorial ever held in this city. That is the most we can do now for him who was once so staunchly and truly our friend. Let us stait the ball rolling now. Let it be a unity meeting at some large hall or chutch and bring into it the poorest and humblest as well as the richest and proudest and all pay their tribute to the departed Teddy. There need not be a lot of big guns and big Its, but make it just a general testimony meeting where everybody who cares can say a word in hehalf of the memory of Roosevelt, one of the best friends this race has ever had. Let us get busy. W'atch next week for some expression. FRANK GOLDEN. Smoke John Iluskin »c Cigar. Big gest and Best.—Adv. SOl'TH CAROLINA’S BRILLIANT GALAXY OF COLORED LEADERS (Continued from race 1) alone of his race in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth. Thus ended the rec ord of the Negro as a national leg islator. • The Negro is at present retired from high official position. Will that retirement be permanent? I see noth ing in the present political conditions to warrant the hope that the Negro will at any time in the near future become a political factor in national affairs. He is practically disfran chised in all of the southern states where his numerical power would give him political control, and he has made no progress in political advancement in any of the northern states, strongly and radically republican as many of them are. As a rule, the enfran chisement of the Negro has not ele vated him or inspired him to the gieat work of educating and ennobling the race. There are very many most creditable exceptions, but the great mass of the Colored vote in our north | ern cities is a mere commercial com modity, and that has made the ele vation of cultured and highly-respect ed Negroes to honored political po sitions next to impossible. If this dis creditable condition were confined to the black race it would be an inefface able reproach upon the Negro, but it is only just to say that in his de bauchery of the sacred elective fran chise the black man is only an imita tor of his white political associates. From the present outlook it seems to be clearly indicated thut the mission of the Negro is ended, as a political factor in high official trust. Don’t owe anybody anything. ' lodge directory X Keystone Lodge. No. 4. K. of P., Omaha. Neli Meetings first and third Thursdaj* of each month M. H. Haggard. C. C., J H. Glover. K. of R. and S._ ? THE SINCLAIR 1 l LUNCH ROOM | A The Criterion for Quick Service. 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