CONGO ANNEXATION.
• FAINT PEAISB. . FINANCIAL BURDEN, ON BELGIUM. IT IBLBQBArn— rBEB3 ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQHT. (Ren. Dec. 15, 4.52 p.m.) 1 \ London, December 14. •fThe Times'" Brussels correspondent says the Congo annexation scheme earns only the mildest approval even from its supporters. The Government is donbtfnl whether, as a Crown Colony, it' will pay, if forced labour and 'other abuses are abolished. To pur- ' ehase King Leopold's interests will cost over a hundred million sterling. \
' Mr. B. D. Morel, one of the leading English campaigners against the. Belgian atrocities, thus defines the; situation:—"lf the Belgian people wished/to annex the Congo, they mnst do as other colonising peoples had the bill. Annexation based upon the abolition of the existing system on the Congo must evolve the Bolgian taxpayer for many years In an outlay for grants in aid for tho Congo amounting to half "a million per annum. Annexation without 'a, complete change of the oxisting BYBtenrmeant that in the eyes of Christendom slavery, would be, reintroduced in an infinitely worse fornix in tropical Africa, not under the flag of an irresponsible despot, but under tho flag of a .European nation. 'May we be saved from .that supremo shame.'"
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 70, 16 December 1907, Page 7
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195CONGO ANNEXATION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 70, 16 December 1907, Page 7
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