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FEROCIOUS CRUELTY. , United Press Association — By Ele©t*j« Telegraph — Capymghti. '■ (Received February 21, 8.35 a.m.) PARIS, February 20. French newspapers publish ghastly revelations of the crimes of French ' officers on the Congo, and allege tha^ one of them baked alive over a slpw. v . l fire" the wife of a Senegalese, sharp* ./ shooter, who refused his overtures. (Several officials of French Congo have been indicted at Brazzaville for : dynamiting for sport a negro sentenced to death, also with decapitating an« ; . other, and making the head into broth, which was served to natives. The head was thereafter shown to them. M. Donmergue, ex-Minister, learning ol . the fact from an officer's letter td a friend,^ initiated the prosecutions.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8247, 21 February 1905, Page 2
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