A KING'S MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 7

A KING'S MONEY.

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. BELGIUM AND THE CONGO. THE PEDJCESSES' EIGHTS. • (Eec. March C, 5 p.m.) Brussels, March 5. Princess Louise declares that if ■ her father (the late King of Belgium) disposed of property belonging to Belgium for tho benefit of a third party, she would make no claim to it. She hoped tho Government would inform herself and her sisters of the property to which the State's right had not been established, and to which they would therefore be entitled to succeed. 31. Vandervoldi . during an interpellation in tho Chamber of Deputies, stated that it had now been found that King Leopold had invested .£2,800,000 in companies directed'.by men of straw, including a million in Congo bonds. The money was tainted with blood and ought to revert to Belgium and used to improve the condition of the negroes. The Government admitted that King Leopold deceived them. They would uphold the Nation's rights. : Other speakers asserted that £1,200,(100 had disappeared from the Congo treasury, and that books and papers had been destroyed.' M. Dewoeste . paid . a tribute to the .princess's delicate sense of honour. A resolution from the Left was negatived by.7o to 66. M. Dewoeste's motion of confidence in the Government was adopted.