CURSE IN CONGO
CHAIN LETTER THREATS
SUPERSTITIOUS NATIVES
SERIOUS AGITATION
(Times Cable.)
(Received 29th November, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, 28th November. "The Times" correspondent at Brussels says that Communists are sending chain letter threats to native chiefs in the Belgian Congo, who are asked to copy the letters and send them to six other chiefs under penalty.of a curse or death.- The- letters inform the natives that the whites have stolen their land and urge revolt, exhorting them to massacre Hhe whites and stating that war again is raging in Europe. The letters are greatly agitating the superstitious natives, necessitating the occupation of several districts by troops.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7
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106CURSE IN CONGO Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7
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