The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1910-02-25
FOR EVERY BIRD THAT A DUTCH.
. MAN KILLED HE COLLECTED
A HAND FROM A NATIVE.
Horrible atrocities Of the Foreioners
Under King Leopold in Congo
4 Recited by Missionary.

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Slaughtered by LeopolI's cannibal sol
diers and thousands OF men. women
and children were crippled for life bv
these monsters
p A. McDiarmid. formerly of Roch-
ester. n. Y. who was sent to soma
Bata in the heart of the Congo region
by the American Baptist Missionary
Society, three and half wears AGO
gave voice to the foregoing in an i'm
teryiew at the home of Prof oscar r.
Lienau, Of the South Central High
School in Spokane, in refuting the de-
malls that have gone out since the
death of King Leopold. of Belgium. re-
garding the atrocities commi. Cd i'm
The Congo Free state during his life
time He added.
4 doubt ii Americans fullv under
Stand the causes that led mn TO these
horrible atrocities in the Congo Free
state. and for which Leopold was di-
recty responsible. In the FIRST place.
sBelgiums inhuman monarch claimed
8all the lana of the Congo Free state
as his private domain. and to fatten
shis purse, leased vast sections Of The
Rubber producing territory to conces-
sionaire companies for limited periods
81 of time.
In all of these companies he held
q 80 per cent of the stock. and desiring
10 get all the rubber possible I'm the
shortest length Of time the men at
the head Of these companies. under or
ders from Leopold, would recruit reet-
meuts of soldiers from among the ma
tiyes many OF them from the canni.
bal tribes-and send them into the
-e5mtIy to iutimidae the people and
thus force them TO bring in more
rubber
This mode Of intimidation was
something more than the mere word
might seem 70 indicate 1T often
meant the determination of an entrt
village and the Strengthening OF the ma
tives inhabiting them the herling Of
men and women i'm prisons too vile
even for the lowest and fl5iest of
animalsl to be confined in. aud often
times the cutting off of their hands
This latter act of Leopold.s ale
u savage soldiers was The most cruel of
II 2ll-worse n most cases than death
II or Imprisonment in dens OF filth Each
II scldeier was given limited number
II OK cartridges by tine comp my sending
II MN ont and ordered 10 SHOW for every
I cartridge fired human Gand-tne
n right one 10 an instances 80 that
/ there would De no waste OF aiamnai.
ton After solder would see some
animal that he wanted, so he would
shooi 70 and some Iu'NIess naive
would pay the penalty with ms or oet
ngat name. IheS would eaten the MAJ
uves' bind them ana Jhcn hack on
tneIr rsht hands with ne''e KNIVES.
II Aiief TINS mad oeeh gong ON 2
WINE men re- urhIHs i'o" lhe inferior
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