CONGO TORTURES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11646, 25 August 1905, Page 5

CONGO TORTURES.

A harrowing story of the barbarities practised on the natives of the Congo Free State by the Belgian officials is told in a letter from a C-jngo correspondent to Mr James Irvine, a West-African merchant, Castle Street, Liverpool. ( The once flourishing village of Nsongo Mboyo, states' the writer, has been desolated,- and 77 natives murdered, because they did not bring in sufficient rubber from the forest to satisfy the Congo Government officials. Many other natives, including three women, were barbarously mutilated. One woman was tied ta a forked tree and slowly cut in pieces. . A pointed stake was forced into the body of another woman, who was then shot. A third woman's cheek and nose were slit. Her right hand and left foot were then.- cut off, and she was left to die.

Natives' huts, too, according to the cor- ] respondent, are constantly being destroyed and the inhabitants hounded into the j wood in search of rubber, which it is impossible to procure. These facts have cometo light, adds the correspondent, since the departure of the Commission sent out by King Leopold to. investigate the atrocity charges. • Captain Baccari,' who was sent by Tkhe Italian Government to report on the Congo Free State, states that officers have to be merely slave-drivers, and that if they refuse they are treated as rebels'. Every officer is obliged to take an oath that after h© leaves the Conga service he will never divulge what he saw there.

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