THE CONGO.
LATFST BELGTAN NOTE
BRITAIN'S DETERMINED STAND
Press Assooiation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 9.20 p.m., June 28th. . LONDON, June. 28.
In reply tlo the Note from Belgium, which merely repeated the former assurance regarding her intentions, Sir Edward Grey intimated that Britain was unable to recognise the Belgian Government in the Congo until 7t made it clear that the abuses of taxation and forced labour, which were indistinguishable from .slavery, had ceased, and th-ifc the treatment of the natives had been assimilated to that found in other European colonies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13941, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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88THE CONGO. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13941, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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