TERRIBLE STORY FROM THE CONGO FREE STATE.
LONDON, July 3. The Rotterdam correspondent of the '"Daily Chronicle" says:—lt is now. learned that the recent mutiny at Shinkakassa fort, near Boma, was duo to the abominable treatment of the soldiers' wives by the governor, of the fort, who, when the women refused to do hard manual labour without-pay, had them stripped and flogged till t&e. blood ran down tielr Tbodleß. }
The mutineers are now all exterminated. They were hunted down and shot on sight, or lashed to the mouths of cannon and blown to pieces by platoons before, admiring Belgian officials in gala dress, by order of the acting Governor.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1900, Page 2
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