CONGO REFORMS.
BELGIUM'S ASSURANCES NOT ENOUGH. BRITISH ATTITUDE. FORCED LABOUR MUST CEASE. (By Tclcgroph—Press Association.—OopyriehU (Reo. June 28, 9.20 p.m.) London, Jane 28. In reply to the Note from Belgium concerning tho Congo territory—in which Belgium merely repeated her former assurance regarding her intentions as to the administration of tho annexed territory—tho British Secietary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, has intimated that Britaiu will bo unablo to recognise the Belgium Government in tho Congo until it has been inado clear that tho abuses of tasation and forced labour—which is indistinguishable from slavery—havo ceasod, and that the treatment of the natives is being assimilated to that found in other European colonies, i
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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112CONGO REFORMS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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