THE BELGIAN CONGO
SERIOUS ECONOMIC POSITION. ALL OFFICIALS RESIGN. FOOD SITUATION CRITICAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAPETOWN, April 23. Advices from Belgian Congo state that an economic crisis lias arisen through tlie decline of tlie franc and anti.profltcering iegislition, which is driving British merchants from Um territory. The entire official staff ot tile Katanga proving lias struck, including tlie High Court Judges and tlie customs, telegraph and railway officials. Their demands include increased pay and the rigid of association. The food position is becoming critical.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14348, 27 April 1920, Page 5
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