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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2282, 16 November 1889, Page 3

The experiment of an African throne has been an exoeediDgly costly ono for King Leopold. Every yesr the Congo State, with a population nf twenlv. seven million souls, euoh as they are, showed up a big loser, and, jib the defioit had to be made up ia some way, King Leopold sacrificed hia ptivate fortune year after year for the purpose. When this was all gono he mortgaged his oivil list for the sums neoesßary to keep tho poor Afrioan State moving along, and to-day tho Botbsohilds hold mortgages against him aggregating 16,000,000 francs. Leopold has quite ruined himßelf financially with this pet bobby of his, and finds himself m a position now where the only oourse left opon to him is to abdioate.

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