FUTURE OF THE CONGO
MEMORIAL TO SIR EDWARD GREY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received December 24, 11.50 p.m.) , : LONDON, December 24. A remarkable memorial, signed by many peers, nineteen bishops, seventysix members of the House of Commons, and numerous Lord Mayors, representative commercial men, philanthropists and editors, has boon forwarded to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Minister, expressing cordial support of the Government’s insistence that Belgium. must give distinct assurances that treaty rights in .the Congo will ho respected, and native communal and tribal tenure of land and products bo recognised.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6701, 26 December 1908, Page 7
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89FUTURE OF THE CONGO New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6701, 26 December 1908, Page 7
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