THE CONGO
i ' • . V . LONDON, November 10. Mr, ;Asquith t referring to the Congo, remarked' that t&e .whereon the Free. State was founded ►w/ere not only- unfulfilled, but con&nuously and habitually violated. Had there beetf nd change it would have been impossible longer to admit any jurisdiction but our own over any Briton who was there. Belgium, as the result o£ inquiries, had now made a . of policy , which Great Britain had not yet had time fully, to consider, but which she would welcome as opening up a prospect more hopeful than any that had yet been offered. Mr Asquith added that th« final solution that Great Britain would be able to recognise was annexation, based on the ground that such annexation might be trusted to lead to those vital reforms, which, alone could satisfy, treaty fights and the common obligations of humanity. _ Hie insisted warmly thai the agitation - in" 1 " -Great r 'Britain against' abuses in~ the Congo -was altogether ISncere ifflfct"4inse^&h. * * , *» "V?e. - c
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Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 23
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165THE CONGO Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 23
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