The Congo States.
The Right Hon. Leonard H. Courtney, President of the Royal Statistical Society, in the course of an address, stated that the expenditure of the Congo Free State exceeded the revenue. The rubber and ivory supplies were the chief products of the State. Some day these would be exhausted. Nine out of every ten white men who went to the Congo were buried or invalided within three years. News has been received at Brussels from the Congo Free State that a central African tribe of cannibals has killed and eaten four Belgian traders in the region of the Übanghi, the great northern affluent of the Congo, which forms the boundary between the eastern portions of the Congo State and French Congo. The Übanghi cannibals surprised and massacred 70 native soldiers who were escorting the Belgian traders to their territory.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1898, Page 2
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141The Congo States. Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1898, Page 2
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