THE CONGO.
REPORT OF FRONTIER COMMISSION. • A VALUABLE OOLDFIELD. United Pro« Afwocir-tion—B.- Electric Te.tvrraph—Cejiyri^ht. (Received July .".th. 4.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 4. The Anglo-Congolese Frontier Commission has completed a survey showing that a mistake in the maps whereon the Anglo-Congolese Convention of 1594 was based, placed the Thirtieth meridian, forming the frontier, twenty miles west of the true position; hence a strip, li'O miles long, supposed to be British, is now provisionally regarded as neutral. Britain uplields the Convention. Should the strip be added to the Congo territory, Britain will be deprived of access to Lake Albert Edward. Tiie same report mentions considerable activity in the Kilo goldfields, inside the Congo border, which are largely worked by Australians. The first two lots of gold obtained wero valued at £'70,000 sterling. BRU.SSI-.l*<. July 3. M. Sehollaort, the Belgian Premier, declares that the Congo's wealth s.irpa_sse,s the imagination, and that Katanga is destined to becomo the largest copper-producing centre in the world.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13160, 6 July 1908, Page 7
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