BASKETS OF SEVERED, HANDS.
M. Lorand, speaking in tho Belgium Chamber on May 4 on the question of annexing tho Congo, urged that if tho Chamber voted tho annexation before the friendly discussions now in progress 'between Great Britain and Belgium tvero conclude*!, Great Britain .would continue against Belgium tho campaign sho had begun against the Congo Free' State. Ho asked if tho Government denied the stories of natives having had thoir hands cut off.
The Minister of Justice replied: " These ,aro native practices. The Congo Free Stato has never had hands cut' off." M. Lorand continued: "Quito so; but that practice was tolerated. -The blacks under tho charge of tho Stato brought to the white officers baskets filled with severed hands." He. admitted that those practices had disappeared, hut added that nowadays they went to inhuman lengths in the treatment of native women.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 10
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