CONGO ANNEXATION.
AN 'ALTERNATIVE. PARTITION 'BY THE POWERS St TEt.EGIurH—PRESS . ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT j ; ' London, January 24. An influential meeting of Churchmen and Nonconformists, the Right Rev. Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London,., presiding, formed a joint Christian ,committee to agitato to secure real reforms in tho Congo. ; Tho "Daily Express" states that M. Van-, derreldo, Socialist, declares that Germany, suggested that Great Britain, Franco, and Germany should divido the Congo/ and that this led to tho Belgian Annexation Bill. King Leopold's,, exorbitant .demands: threatened to wreck it, but : the situation- was saved by France' declining tho German overtures/ in view of the Bolgian right of pre-omptioh, and of her friendly relations with Belgium.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 7
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111CONGO ANNEXATION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 7
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