THE STANLEY SCANDALS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 6839, 11 February 1891, Page 2

THE STANLEY SCANDALS.

A meeting under tho Duspicea of the Aborigines Protection Society was bald in London on December 13tb, Sir K, N, Fowler, M.P., in the chair, to consider the disclosures in conneetion with the Emm relief expedition, and to take steps to provent a recurrenceo£ such brutalities initio future. . The chairman said the opening up of Africa on proper lines would be a great blessing to humanity, and of, the highest commercial advantage. to tbia country and to the natives of Africa. Sucb, however, was not the character of Mr Stanley's semi-military expediiion, which/was under uo legitimate or' proper control of any Government, but existed on a sort of inde. pendent filibustering: basis. The expedition had no right to'kiil the natives, or even to punish them, and yet horrible' cruelties. have been inflicted without a shadow of authority. Christians protected against armed intervention of the charaoter which they all so much deplored, and demanded that future expeditions should be frco from tho ovils of which they so jus'ly had to complain in regard to Rlt Stanley's progress through Africa. Mr, Frederic HarrisoD, in seconding (110 resolution, confonded as a lawyer • that lbs wbolo expedition-was illegal, and that the loaders had rondored themselves liable to Ihe criminal law of this country. It was a slavo trading and raiding expedition, and Mr H, M, Stanley had broaght himself within the provisions of 5 George IV,, 0. 13, At any rate there was sufficient prima facie eiidenoo to warrant a public body like that sooieiy taking up the matter and getting it setllod in acaurt af law, and he suggested ihbit some eminent counsel should be consulted, Mies Golenso, daughter of Bishop' Golenso, also protested against what had taken place. in Central Africa and in Zultiland, where the. preset Govommont had permitted • atrocity as bad es any which, Mr S had commuted. The Government should purge itself of the charges - brought against its officers in Zululand in 1887-9 '•ihwV 5 ' onanimonßl y carried: lion the cruelties practised Africarf na ives by members of : tho limin Relief urges on her Majesty's as may pTovcnt iho occurrence of similar ofeouin fuluro." Pritioo Kitoji Ajaesa

(Dahomey) ilmobod tlio society for tie prdteoiion of bis ooun'rymeu, and denounced of (he. v natives by Mr Stanley and hia officerp, Mr Bnnoy (of B'anloy'a roar guard) said that it / : was through birn tba< many of the cruelties complained of boearoo the public. No doubt they badbeon commitled.but they must bear in mind lie whole of the unparalloled and'desperate o'rcutnataDce r jo qq unknown country. The public coaid bite no conception of the" cha:aotcr of the j nativee, 1 or of theVifficultiee encountered, and rather than ineißt upon further itquiiy ho adviaod thera to draw a curtain over all those unfortunate ovents. All lliodetai.s bad not yet come out) and no good to any- ' ■ < Hotly would result from further revcMiooß. bitnilat atrocities in t other par's of the ' VbriJ liad''escaped notice, and although be had regretted what he bad seen, he did not think the evils could have been avoided. If all tho truth were told Englishmen ' would 'bo,w their heflds with ulrame, and vEuropo would point at them with scorn, .