BELGIAN CONGO
A SERIOUS REVOLT (United Press Association-By Electrio Tolegraph—Copyright) (Received 7th August, 9.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 6th August, A serious revolt occurred in the. Belgian Congo as the result of an increase in the native tax. The headman who was collecting the tax was brutally murdered. A force of four hundred natives and white officers left at Elizabethville were confronted by 2000 rebels armed with rifles and bows and arrows. Ten were killed in the first encounter. It is known that two officers and their wives and one priest wore killed. Tlio revolt is difficult to suppress owing to the wild country.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 August 1931, Page 5
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102BELGIAN CONGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 August 1931, Page 5
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