"RED RUBBER."
Hew a compassionate Congo sentry was brutally done to death by a white agent of the rubber trade is told by the Eev. C. J. Dodds, of tb.e Baptist Missionary Society, Upoto. This white agent — Jibale is his. natiye name — was at Ngali when the Mbangi and Ndeke people arrired there last March with their rubber tax. The sentry in ehsrge of tbese villages, Jtasolo, was called by Jibale, the agent, who, after Tenting his wrath upon him because be had not been so extortionate as sonje are, ordered the soldiers to pnt him to death. They said they did not kngw Sow to do it, as the nse of cartridses l&s been forbidden since tie great scandal. The agent said, "II you don't know how, I wiQ show 70a." He made two soldiers hold +hy man's usos while be r ii 4be ma to tarth with the bqtt ad of bto :'Pa M G» cbeel, tack, Mβ tftfcka,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 172, 20 July 1907, Page 13
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