The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-20
HANDS ARE SEVERED
TO MAKE RUBBER FOR KING
 :. LEOPOLD.
Congo Missionary Tells of More Shocking Atrocities Under Leo old's Reign Over the P 40,0OO, 900 Souls
 in Africa.

New York American.
 According to the Rev. William M. Nor rison of Lexington. Va. the Presbyterian on Saturday, after six years In the Con go Free State, England. is waiting only Tor the action of the United States to sore on the face of the earth"
 Following the missionary's disclosures at the public meeting held at the Royal ay st'S ssSsGs s mattsr is so bs sifted in the House of Parliament on May %. The Rev. pr. John Clifford Sir Pss saes sr Merbsrs ssmue conditions in the Congo. Free state:
 The missionary himself will go to Wash ton he possesses before the President and the State Department
 According to the act of Berlin in 1885, France, Germany and Portugal agreed that King Leopold-not as a Belgian, but as philanthropic outsider-was to be sry says he now uses his position mere ly for commercial gain. ignoring 'abso- lutely the provisions that there must be aSsoluts eeao of trads sayss 1aat s, have protectfoh.. and that the mission aries are to work without hindrance.
 Instead. the natives are fin terror of the Zappo zaps the Bansalas and the Bata- Shocking Atrocities Revealed.
 The Zappo Zaps are natives under chiefs, one of whom is Mulumba Nkusa. Der for tns ss.nss ass oi RRE IsopoS Whenever they fail to get the required amount. they make up the denciency with Their perquisites on rubber hunting trips are t2 piilage the country, leaving trail TSS Bangalar and Bataieiar are native troops. cannibals. ofiicered by Beigians. They were taken as slaves, but being re- moved a thousand miles or more from ney ns H the zappo zaps. There ear are about i7.ooo of of these troops.
 In JgEy isSs Msl"mba 1,s. SsNi wtn journey from Luebo. where the mission aries are. He invited large number of chiefs of the region to disarm and come he shot them down without quarter.
 The Rev. W. H. Sheppard, F: R. c. s.. who was friend of the Zappo Japs. went eigfty-one human hands drying over a fire. Outside he counted more than two score human bodies. Mulumba Nkusa flesh. and that he had sent by the state ofiicer at Luluaburg to whom he had al- ready dispatched sixteen slaves.
 The white people protested. Du Four,
 
 put on Mulumba Nkusa, whose only pun ishment was a few weeks confinement at Iuluaburg.
 The Belgian authorities. informed of the atrocities by the missionary. shrugged their shoulders.
 Tn the opinion of Lawrence Townsend. the American Minister at Brussels. and Sir Constantine Phipps. the British Min ister. the conditions in the Congo Free Sta Id be laid before the Hague tribunal.
 After the act of Brussels in 1888 the United States was the first nation to rec ognize the independence of the country. which now has about 4o,ooo.oOo inhabi- tants.
 (Rev W. H. Sheppard. who is men, tioned in the foregoing article as the in- vestigator reporting these facts. is well known in Montgomery and other Alabama cities. He was reared in this State, ed- ucated at he Presbyterian. Colored Theo- logical school in Tuscaloosa. and was sent as a missionary to his race in be- nighted Africa. He was back here on a visit some years ago.-Editor The Adver- fiaaFl