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frst Of all the proportsonate bonus grant,
ed to the agents Of the s. c. A. Bel
CHM desires that the inhabitants OF the
Congo should receive guarantees OF a
justice established on a sounder base than
that which has been known there hither-
To-.
These reforms are demanded by the sim
! cere friends OF the colonial policy OF
/, King Leopold. for If the independents
States does not take care. not onl win it
have enormous difficulty to pacify the
natives. who will end by rising up in re-
vote in every part of IT'S territory1a mu-
tiny has just rokea out at the fort Of
Shinkakassa-but it will also be brought
face TO face with the other Powers who
viii demand that this barbarity shall
stop. FRANTZ FoNSoN.
Supplementary Evidence.
The accusations of Lacrofx, to which
Mr.. Fonson refers. were even more START
ling than those of Moray Lacroix saws
in a letter to an Antwerp newspaper that
in November. being at Monha, he received
from one of his superiors. NJ. NJ or
! ders TO massacre all the natives of a GER
tain village. He says tina twenty-five
women and two children were killed. as
were also three women who were feeine
in a canoe. and who We're thrown into the
water. This slaughter was ordered be-
cause the native canoes had not arrived in
time to AXE the india rubber from certain
| stations. About the same time q black
soldier was shot and his wife put in
chains because their son had gone to an
ncuncs at Buelas. a village in the State,
the arrival of NJ. M The latter, in
the preceding month, had ordered the
shooting OF q black soldier who deserted.
Sixty women were put in chains and
| nearly all were left TO perish Of hunger
because their Village. Mnnnumbula. did
not bring In any rubber. The author OF
these revelations closed his letter. by say
ing:
II am going % appear before a court Of
| justice along with six other white men on
the following charges:
"Of having assassinated $50 men and OF
I having cut ST sixty hands.
"Of having cruciied women and child
rem. and mutilated a number of men and
hung their remains on the palisades.
"of having killed a negro with revolver
shots.
"Of having murdered a native"
Ee adds that the trial will be the great
est ever heard in connection with the
k.Congo.
says Rcroix Told the Truth.
To these revelations OF Nj. I.acroix a
finishing touch Is put by an Interview In
the Nieuwe Gazet with a person who lived
for a long time in the region referred to-
lie remarked: 81 am convinced that this
letter (of NJ. I.acroix) is correct from be-
ginning to end. / know people who have
confirmed all these facts to me. and 1 will
give YOU the names OF Ave OF Lacroix's
fellow accused. They are NM. Matthys,
Jacauiain, Van Ryck. Moraix and BiliolS.
Major Michel. the special Commissioner OF
the King, viii conduct the case against
them, and he is known to be a severe
man." The speaker added, These hor-
rors do not date from yesterday. I hava
heard related even more terrible eases"
And he went on with a narrative OF name
less atrocities. the possibility of which
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EE*H#1
back to the white man. He asked us how
we had got on. We answered him tha
we had killed the men, but that We had
not muriIated them. The white man
Imeia' was angry and told the sergeant
Mongolia that ne was a coward and that
If he did not bring back the heads. the
had killed he would take away his rank
of sergeantfrom him.
THE sergeant Mongolia turned about
with two oldiers and went into the for
est, where the bodies of two men he had
killed were lying. He mutilated them
and brought back their members to the
white man. who ordered them to stick
the heads on a pole above the house of
the chief, then we set fire to all the viii
lagge as well as to the house whereon
were set the heads of the murdered men"
This is What the witness swore to un-
der oath. Was it true2 The inquiry
opened at Bona viii show. perhaps.
Moray in Trouble.
Moray, the author of these reports. him-
self is called before the tribunal by the
director NJ. Lothaire. He explains in this
way the reason of his prosecution: He
was overseer of the factory of Mandika
(of the S. c. Al and had also filed the
post of chief officer of police under the
orders of the authorities OF New Ant
werp. Having had to face the hostility
of the natives in these troublous times
for they menaced him as a consequence
of the frightful treatment they had en-
dured from the military agents OF the
AitWerp C0mnanv and of the Stafa-ha
had to defend himself. One day he ar
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sition Of the Magistrate Of New Antwerp
Tor murder. When Moray arrived at
Mobeka he gave N. Lothaire fresh explain
ations n the latter promised that he
would not deliver him up to justice. bst
would simply send him back invaded 10
Belgium on condition that he would make
"a written declaration that the deeds OF
which he had accused Van Eycken were
false.
Moray, according to his story, refused
to accept such a bargain. on which NJ
Lothaire maintained his frst decision and
sent Moray TO be judged BY the aothori-
ties Of Bona
NJ. Lothaire insists that all these stories
are lies and calumny, and that he hopes
soon that justice will be done 10 the mali
eious inventions of this agent, who. so he
afhrms. acted as he has done only to re-
venge himself upon his chief.
Even admitting that the accusations OF
Moray and the accusations formulated by
another agent, NJ. Lacroix. who also was
prosecuted for Similar acts, are exagger-
ated, it is not the less tru- that it seems
10 be an established fact to-lar shat The
revolt of the Budjas. when cost the sc
of Two white men, Mn Wynants and
babe. was the result OF the frightiul
treatment or the blacks ia tie Mongolia.
Belgium wrought Up.
Public feeling IN Eelgiup is wrought
up to the highest pitch. In Parliament
questions have been asked by AM
Lorand. Radical; yauderveids. Socialist.
and Colts. Copservattve The Minister Of
Foreign Affairs answered that the lave
Of the State were Furnishing the crimes
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the palisades In the form OF a cross.
On arriving In the villages which
we had invaded this white man as
well as all the women saw the bodies
hung on to the palisades; there was
not a single nut in the village to shell
ter us. The white man .Imela' (Al. Van
Eycken) had made us burn everything
on our first visit.
Il swear that this report is true,
The acting Chief of Police,
y. MORAY"
The second report, bearing the date
of December rs. 1899, drawn up by the
same agent, relates the no less appall-
ing dispositions of five other soldiers
with regard to the following facts:
Van Eycken in Prison.
"On December 10 the white man I'M
Ella arrived at the Ambata factory and
told us that one of our brothers, a sol
der belonging to the white man Mum
duki' On. Moray of the Mandika sta
ton had just been killed. our broth
err he said, was killed between Man
dika and Ambata. We have here in
chains the chief of the village where
the crime was committed At these
words he brought out the chief in
question and struck him to make him
say where was the gun of the dead sol
der. Seeing that he would not answer
his questions, the white .Imela On. Van
Eycken) laid him down, took a stick
and stuck it into his body ten centime-
tres deep. The white man then made
him get up and tied a rope around his
neck. We went away to the village
where the CRIME had been committed
with the white man and about twenty
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revealed. and that justice would follow
its course. But that only moderately sat
isfed the public. who. upon the deelara-
ton Of former magistrates OF the Congo,
fear hat once more the subordiaases,
who have acted under the orders 81 the
Chiefs viii alone be punished. while the
latter will continue to wear the aureole
Of innocence.
Even admitting that the guilty are pun
ished. the Belgian nation, whose king Is
the sovereign OF the Congo; the Belgian
nation. which has helped the work by Its
supplies, and has allowed the officers Of
It's army 20 "a to Africa. and whose cap
ital il heavily Engaged over there. de-
mands thai the primary Cause of % many
crimes and massacres shaII " <bslished
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Of the vrstehed black slctim9 more work
and more india rubber.
Major Lothaire. whose portrait. repro
dHced from q photograph. Is printed hers
for the first time. Is a quiet. pleasant
spoken little man. who. 10 ali appearances.
would not harm a ny. He - now in Bel
siHna and has declared that these terrible
charges have been made for political rea-
SONS. Thanks largely 70 the MAJORS sue
cess ia squeezing india rubber out OF ths
natives.
Il has been denied that King Leopold
Owls any stock IN this trading company.
and yet the charge has been made re-
peatedly In Belgium. hat he gets q part
VI hts vast private fortune III sosne man
nsr from the company.
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| rested a chief of the Budjas, by means Of
the soldiers at his command, and con-
Quoted him to the station The imprison-
ed chief had gone through one interro-
cation when. taking advantage Of a mo-
mentary var Of caution on the par Of
his jaiIers. he managed 10 escape a SEN
tinei fred on Aim and missed him.
Moray, selling the gun OF a soldier. cali
ed three times to the fugitive 10 stop.
The Budja chief not obeying, Moray fred.
The man fell MORALLY wounded
This happened in December. In his
political report to IL Lothaire. II Moray
informed the latter OF the fact II.
Lothaire considered that Moray had artsd
wrongly and ordered him to come down
The river and place himself - TIE dsspo-
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soldiers. The white man told US that
if the chief attempted t o get away we
were to kill him. 1t happened on the
way that the chief did try to escape.
and n of US fired, killing him on the
spot. The white sImela' Wan Eyck-
en) ordered his head to be cut off and
had it put on a stake SO as to place il
up above the house of the chief. while
he had his body tied TO the paIisade OF
the village.
'The white man then gave US the fol-
lowing order:
You are all 10 go into the forest that
surrounds the village and you are to kin
every that you meet you viii cut OF
the heads. hands. etc, and bring them to
ms here. Some hours afterward We came
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rubber to the commercial depot they
are received by the agent of the society
| surrounded by soldiers; the baskets are
weighed, and if they do not contain
five Kilograms the blacks receive there
and then 100 strokes of the lash. If
there are 100 men in a village and only
so arrive with the stuff they are kept
as hostages and soldiers are sent to
shoot the recalcitrant natives or to
burn the whole village.
CannibaIs Encouraged.
. We must also notice, says NJ. Paul
Conreur, the part that the submissive
natives are made to take against their
fellows in these local wars. O
Armed with lances, they are enrolled
as auxiliaries, and, taking part in the
expeditions, they are allowed to exer-
else their habitual tactics, which con-
sist in pitiless massacre followed by
pillage, and, terrible to relate, scarcely
credible wen in these regions, the
white "civilizers' permit the blacks to
eat the flesh of their victims. This is
their loathsome payment. To excite
and encourage them in the struggle,
ehe whites cry during the fight: 'They
have eaten your brothers; eat them
also!"
These shocking accusations have
been brought by an agent of the com
pany named Moray against Van Eyck-
en-, another representative of the soci-
ETY.. Moray, acting, so he says, as an
officer of justice, has made mention in
the reports of the most dreadful doings
related in his presence by witnesses,
giving evidence, it is true, in the alb
sence of the accused.
Moray's Horrible report.
The contents of these documents are
too important to suppress. Here they
are:
Independent. State of the Congo,
"Bangalas District.
REPORT
"In the year 1899, in the month of
November. 1, the manager of the fac
tory OF the Societe Commercials An
yersoise, acting as head of police in the
absence of the same, have heard the
dispositions of the said Massamboko,
sergeant; Mulanda, sergeant; Mutuana
and Pongo, soldiers: all of the station
of Mandika, who, having taken oath
to tell the truth, made the following
statements:
White Man., we have just come
from the war. We arrived at the vii
lage Ambao. There were about thirty
of us soldiers with the white man
'Imela' On. Van Eycken). who ordered
US to enter the village and see if the
natives were working at the caout-
chouc, and if they were not working.
then We were to kill everybody-men
women and children. On entering the
village we saw the people seated. We
asked them where their baskets OF
caoutchouc were? They did not know
what to say. One of us saw several
empty baskets in the bushes. Accord
ing to u orders that we had received
We killed everybody in the village in
Ambao as well as in all the villages
that are on the road to N'Dobo.
Some hours afterward the white
man "Imela" en-. Van Eycken) joined
us and we told him what we had done.
He answered that it was well done.
but that it was not all. He ordered us
to cut of the heads Of the men and to
stick them up on the palisades of the
village: to cut also the hands and to
hang the women and the children to-
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The sicken1ng Details.

BRUSSELS, May 23.-Revelations al
ready made of the atrocities commit
ted by the representative OF the Societe
Commercials Anversoise in the neigh
borhood of the Mongolia River, in the
Congo region of Africa, have filled Bel
GUM and the whole civilized world
win horror. The members of this So
ciety are accused of massacring and
mutalating natives, of killing children,
of crucifying women, of burning vii
lages-a shocking list of crimes COM
united by persons who had been sent
ito these regions of Central Africa to
civilize savage tribes and to initiate
them into the mysteries of commerce.
Some letters from M. Paul Conreur
to the Petit Bleu of Brussels, of which
he is the correspondent, have thrown a
strange light on the measures that GER
tain agents of Belgian societies employ
to fnculcate the love of labor into the
blacks.
The tribes of the Budjas, on the Mon
gala, wearied of cruelty and perse-
cutions, at last revolted openly against
the authority of the S. A. c., of which
M. Lothadre-who became notorious by
causing the English explorer Stokes to
be hanged-is the director in Africa.
The Society's Powers.
This society, founded in 1872, in
Antwerp, with a capital of 400, GOO
frances, increased later to LOO, 0OC
francs $840, O00), has as president NJ.
DE Browne de TSge. It got for a re-
Movable term of ninety years the con
cession of forests in the basin of the
Mongolia, with the exclusive right OF
trading in all the products of these
lands. This concession permits the
renting, for the term of fifty years, OF
all the lands situated in the Mongalia
valley. On the other hand, the society
pledges itself to pay to the state 30C
francs for every 1000 Kilograms (prac-
tically a toni OF india rubber obtained
$50 francs for the same quantity OF
wax or copal, and 5 per cent. of their
value in the European markets, fol-
ivory and the other products of the
country.
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FULL STORY OF THE MOST AWFUL
ATROCITIES OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
it is Declared Under Oath That Cannibals Were
Deliberately Set Upon Their Brethren by Order
of White Men on the Congo--Whole Villages
Wiped Out With Murder, and the Dead Horribly
Mutilated Because the Natives Did Not Slave
J. Hard Enough for the Whites.

mysterious forest. and there, exposed
to a thousand dangers, bleed the trees
of all their sap. And in exchange for
what? If the harvest is good, they
receive as payment a few pieces of
stuff, glass ornaments, lamellas of
brass or copper; and, if it is bad
blows, ~tortures or even death.
When the natives bring the india
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For several weeks almost incredible
stories have been afioat concerning al
legged atrocities practiced by agents OF
the Societe Commercials Anversoise
(Antwerp Commercial Society on the
blacks in the Congo district leased to
them by the Belgian Government. The
evidence lately has come in from
many sources that Belgium has become
greatly excited owe it, and an investi-
cation is to be made. Many of the re-
ports were made public first by the
Brussels newspaper, LIE Petit Bieu, and
DIT is a correspondent of that journal
who supplies here the first complete
story of these atrocities and the ac-
companying illustrations.
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A Government Pull.

1t is clear then that his society, in
the domains wherein 1t works, has
complete authority and great privil-
eyes, and is associated closely with the
Government, whose moral and effective
protection it possesses.
From the moment of the creation of
this society it provoked intense dissat-
isfaction on the part OF those who had
private interests in the Congo, and who
were unwilling to cope with an OPPOSE
tion trading company that was favored
in every way by a Government inter-
ested in it's success, and therefore ex-
tremely wonderful. 1t was a political
change full of danger. This is proved
to-day, for the state should take it's
greater share of responsibility in the
excuses now revealed, as it has ac-
cepted the greater share of the. profits.
The Government of the Congo was
not ignorant of the e that would
be taken by the society to acquire the
greatest amount possible of the natural
products of its domain, and should have
interviewed in time to prevent newt
able abuses.
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Premium on Cruelty.

That the agents who had charge Of
collecting the india rubber obtained
by the natives might be as Jealous as
possible and eager to get together
large stocks of the commodity, a pre-
MUM, which increased proportionately
to the number of Kilograms got in, was
allowed to them. This plan was only
too likely to excite the rapacity of
certain greedy agents of the society
who were in haste to become rich.
What in Europe would merely have
been a stimulant to work because, I'M
der the burning and facilitating sun
of Africa, the inevitable cause of ex-
| cesses. These excuses were the more
frequent and terrific because a great
number of the white men drawn by
| thirst of adventure and of fortune to
| Africa are often of doubtful morality
| more influenced by disappointments
and regrets, by ill-will and nissan
thropy than by scruplus of conscience.
1t is the social failure, the ne-er-do-
well, the adventurer who sets out fol
| these far-off lands in the hope of fill.
ing his pockets with gold, and little he
) cares for the means he employs in Sc
doing, especially as regards negroes
whom he looks upon as mere beasts Of
burden out of whom must be got as
much work as possible-and even more
What the Poor Blacks Get.
You must add to this the natural
~repugnance that the blacks have for
work, and, above all, for gathering in
dia rubber. This is indeed terribly
hard work. For whole weeks the ma
tives have to leave their villages and
their families, to abandon their huts,
their games, their dances, everything
that they love, to plunge into the
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"

In the New York Medical Record
DR.. jacob says there live in his DUN
try one physician to every 600 people,
whereas in Great Britain the ratio is
1 to 1000; in France, 1 to 2,40O; in Ger
many. 1 to 5000. and in Italy, l to $500.
1t may Indicate neglect of the sick or
idle doctors-which?
Akron, Ohio, has 33 churches, but peo-
pie get warm when the negro appears
as an offender of the basest sort.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
is stirred over British brutality in
South Africa 1t
The British are gradually adopting
the harSheSt measures in order to break
the superb spirit of liberty which a
civilized white race displays in it's
struggle for national freedom"
Old "Cump' Sherman said with vigor
and truth that war was hell" and it
is so in Africa, in China, in the Philip
pines, as it was in the south in 1926.
There is just one, great important
thing upon which there is no tariff tax
in this country The Johnstown (Pa.)
Democrat that is in a state to INC the
truth, says that ANY amount of for
eign labor can be brought in to take
the places OF American wOrkingmen
whenever the trusts think they are
paying too much wages to their help"
No tariff here o see.
Philadelphia has a new case against
the Christian Science folks. Giles Jay
Burgess died in their hands.
II Sc q haf rana hafuvnnn Dny,r
Roosevelt and tribulation Tribune as
to see who can abuse the south worst.
This organ of anna and h robbers
says the people in the south are dense
ly ignorant and communiStic.
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There is no discounting the fighting
qualities Of the japanese. They are
very unlike the other yellow race in
discipline, in standing UP fighting quail
tiles and in tactical ability. They have
highly distinguished themselves i n the
Chinese war eclipsing the soldiers even
of the great powers. The Atlanta Jour-
nal published a letter from a Georgian
who fought at both Tien Tsin and Pc
king. He stated that the steadiness
and gallantry of the japanese soldiers
under fire could not be excelled and
that he had never seen any drilling as
perfect as theirs.
Similar testimony has been given by
military critics n newspaper CORE
spondents who have witnessed the
fighting In China It has happened in
all theb battles Of this war that the Japs
held the position which subjected them
to the heaviest. fire and their losses
have been heavier than those Of
other contingent in the allied army.
They hav fought with a courage and
dash which has won the highest admi-
ration Of their associates in arms"
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MORE

A third race riot occurred in New
amount to very much. but it showed
the antagonism, the ace hatred. A
negro boy threw an apple core, hitting
a white man. A small riot followed
which was quelled by policemen. The
white man struck had been stabbed in
the neck the week previous by a negrJ
man., the wound requiring to be stitch
ed. He slapped the boys face and was
knocked down by a negro man. The
thing spread. A negro was chased into
a saloon. The keeper drew a pistol
and defied the pursuing mob. The po-
ilceman dispersed the crowd. A dis
patch says:
About the same hour a colored wo-
man armed with a hatpin and a razor,
nearly caused another riot on Ninth
avenue. She was taken in charge by
Thirty-Seventh street station by a
crowd of 300 men and boys, who want
ed 90 lynch her.
p "a man who said he was Michael
Grannin, was standing at Thirty-ninth
street and Ninth avenue when the wo-
iiidh dppI OdCIlcu HILL lISy eACHdHS-
ed a few words and the woman at
tempted to stab Grannin with a hat
pin. DRAINING succeeded in lodging.
Then the woman drew u razor n at
tempted to slash Grannin. Finally a
policeman caught the woman and Sc
cured possession Of the razor. Before
he reached the station house the crowd
by this time had increased, and there
were cries of Lynch her" A hall
dozen policemen finally rushed up and
kept the mob at a distance. After the
woman had been taken in the police
station her husband appeared on the
cent. Threats were made to Lynch
him also, but a large number of police.
men finally succeeded in driving tht
mob away"
So the favorite weapons OF negroe
are produced in New York as in tn
south-hatpins and razor Many ne
gro women are obstreperous and flu,
of fight and incendiarism. The nortl
will learn more of this with the in
a of negroes cup there"