AN INTERVIEW REPUDIATED.
LONDON, Maroh Bf. Mr Keir-Hardio repudiates the interview which appeared in the Brussels journal Patnote. He says he spoke through an interpreter, ,an i the opinions as reported regarding Australia are opposite to the state of affairs existing to-day. (Mr Kier-Hardie was reported to have said, in the interview, that the treatment of natives in the Congo was abominable, and "even more dreadful than what was happening in other colonies," and that Englishmen committed massacres in Australia; Frightful outrages bad occurred in Western Australia, where Englishmen had dono uustwakable things which horriflo'l honest Englishmen, just as oveuts in liie Congo had aroused the iu.li^iiHi;i ,q of honest Belgian?.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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111AN INTERVIEW REPUDIATED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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