THE CONGO.
BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE.
United Press Association- -_5y Electrio '• v Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, June 28:
In reply to a note . from Belgium jtrhtch merely repeated a former assur--Knco regarding intentions, Sir Edward Grey stated thafr-Britain would be unable to recognise the Belgian Go-vern-Ittent in Congo until it had made it Hear that abuses m "of taxation and forced labour, which was indistinguishfeble from slavery, had ceased, and that the treatment of the natives aseimilated to that found in other European colonies.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9581, 29 June 1909, Page 1
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